Citizens are criticizing China's leading film director Zhang Yimou for damaging the environment of the famous West Lake in east China, where Zhang is producing an outdoor visual arts performance.

Two more patients, who had been diagnosed with having Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever (DHF), died at a hospital in Karachi, capital of Pakistan's Sindh province, rising the death toll to 30 in the province, local newspaper The Nation reported on Wednesday.

Antique experts insist that the finest porcelain antiques have not yet been returned to China, but this has not prevented a leap in demand for imitations which is reviving China's ancient ceramic-making industry.

The 30th Cairo International Film Festival will be held from Nov. 28 to Dec. 8 after a series of reforms were made regarding the form and content, Egypt's official news agency MENA reported on Tuesday.

Thick haze caused by forest and bush fires is once again blanketing a number of airports in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, delaying or causing the cancellation of a number of flights, an official said Tuesday.

A newly-released horror film by Hong Kong twin directors has failed to thrill mainland Chinese as they prepare for Halloween parties.

Dengue fever disease has been found in nine patients while undergoing check-up on the suspects at the Nepalgunj Teaching Hospital in mid-western Nepal, the National News Agency, RSS reported on Tuesday.

Chinese director Chen Kaige, whose movie "The Promise" allegedly caused environmental damage to a pristine Himalayan lakeside during shooting, has been nominated for the country's "Green Chinese" award.

In a new twist to the David Banda- Madonna adoption saga, the boy's biological father, Yohane, is making easy money by asking journalists to pay for interviews.

China has 500,000 bridges and starts building 10,000 more every year, making China a world "bridge power", according to an official from China's Communication Ministry.