The Chinese Ministry of Health on Monday issued guidelines on rabies treatment in response to an increasing number of rabies cases in the past few months.

China will offer financial rewards to farmers who have less children, a new family planning policy aimed at restraining the rise in the country's population.

China State Shipbuilding Corporation will build Zhongchuan Yacht Manufacturing Base in cooperation with the People's Government of Fengxian District of Shanghai, and it will be China's largest yacht-manufacturing base.

More tombs in the ruins of the East Zhou Dynasty capital city, in Henan province in central China, have been excavated and many cultural relics have been recovered. A total of 95 ancient tombs have been discovered so far.

More than 400 cites in China are suffering from acute water shortages and 110 of those have reached a crisis point.

As many as 3,000 people in three hotels on the island of Hawaii were forced to evacuate following the 6.6 magnitude earthquake and several aftershocks that struck the Hawaiian Islands beginning 7:07 a.m. local time on Sunday.

A national exercise to test whether Australia is prepared to cope with a potentially deadly outbreak of bird flu is being held Monday in Brisbane, the capital city of the state of Queensland.

Indonesia confirmed Monday a 67- year-old woman who had contracted avian influenza and hospitalized in West Java province died Sunday night.

Horror movie "The Grudge 2" topped the U.S. box office this weekend, bringing in an estimated 22 million dollars, according to preliminary box office figures released on Sunday.

British universities will be encouraged to spy on Asian-looking and Muslim students suspected of supporting terrorist acts and Islamic extremism, The Guardian newspaper cited a document of the UK education ministry as saying on Monday.