The House of Councillors, the upper chamber of Japan's National Diet, comprises 248 members who serve six-year terms.

China launched its first undergraduate program in companion animal science, also known as the "pet" major, in response to ...

The case came to light on July 1, when market regulators and police in Maiji district received reports of abnormal blood lead ...

It is only natural that multinational companies should wish to invest in India, given its large and steadily growing domestic ...

The GENIUS Act, the first federal regulation in this regard, was passed by the US Senate in June and by the House of ...

The coastal city of Qingdao in Shangdong province has become a model for advanced urban governance by blending technological ...

The national railway system transported a total of 1.98 billion tons of cargo in the period, marking a year-on-year increase ...

TOKYO -- Shigeru Ishiba vowed to stay on as Japan's prime minister after his ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and coalition partner Komeito appeared to be on course to lose their upper house ...

Rustem Umerov, who headed the Ukrainian delegation in the previous two talks in Istanbul, had sent the Russian side the offer ...

Typhoon Wipha is the strongest storm to hit Hong Kong in two years, with average wind speeds exceeding 118 kilometers per ...

GUANGZHOU -- Typhoon Wipha, the sixth typhoon of the year, made a second landfall near Hailing Island in Yangjiang, South China's Guangdong province at around 8:15 pm on Sunday as a strong tropical ...

BEIJING -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 jolted 142 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia at 0628 GMT on Sunday, ...