An earthquake measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale jolted Bangladesh's southeastern port city Chittagong and its adjoining area early Sunday.

A new cartoon series produced by China Central Television (CCTV) borrows traditional Chinese storytelling such as paper-cutting and shadow puppets, but uses computer software to animate the stories.

Beijing health and education authorities plan to monitor the risk behavior of students in the hope of reducing violence, unprotected sex and Internet and drug addiction.

Uganda is to join efforts to develop an international Health Systems Action Network (HSAN) that will enable the nation to achieve health priorities.

Ugandan health and agricultural departments have launched The Stamp Out Sleeping Sickness campaign to fight the infectious disease in the east African country.

Federal and state health officials are still investigating the source of E.coli spread that killed three people and sickened almost 200 others nationwide.

At least eight people have died of an unidentified disease over the past two weeks in a village in Dadeldhura district in far-western Nepal.

Chinese archaeologists have unearthed a large tomb, possibly the grave of a noble person, dating back more than 2,000 years, in the central province of Hunan.

Shi Yongxin, abbot of the Chinese Kung-Fu's birthplace Shaolin Temple, expressed his hope to boost the Studies of Shaolin Temple, a place widely believed to be the birthplace of Chinese Kung Fu at an International Symposium on Buddhism Culture here on Friday.

An undersea earthquake measuring 5. 3 on the Richter scale jolted Indonesia's Central Java province just after midnight Saturday, causing no damages.