Canada is committing an investment of 8.4 million Canadian dollars (7.7 million U.S. dollars) over the next two years to develop a new heart health strategy as cardiovascular disease has become the leading cause of death in the country.

Israeli Health Ministry on Monday ruled out any link between vaccination against flu and suspicious deaths of four patients who died after being inoculated, Israel's newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported.

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 shook remote islands south of Tokyo early Tuesday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

Many young adults in Shanghai, who were themselves only children when they were young, want to have a second child, a survey shows.

Slave and Lion, a very rare work of Xu Beihong, a Chinese artist famous for his paintings of horse, will be auctioned next month, Christie's Hong Kong said Monday.

Dozens of artists from 16 countries and regions are working to set up an international union to better protect folk arts and craft around the globe.

Vietnam has banned a local magazine for issuing articles on how to improve sexual performance, a Vietnamese official told Xinhua on Monday.

The death toll of dengue fever in Pakistan's largest port city Karachi has risen to 25, local private Geo TV reported on Monday.

The China Textile Information Center (CTIC) is to cooperate with ColorVision, a famous American company dealing in color management solutions, to do research on the digitalization of color, according to a report released on October 22.

Vietnam is actively preparing human forces, health equipment and medicines to combat potential bird flu outbreaks among people, the local newspaper Youth reported Monday.