China's cartoon industry will enter a golden age in the next 3 to 5 years, with experts predicting that the value of the cartoon market has the potential to grow by 100 billion yuan.

According to latest figures, there are more than 160 million people in China with high blood pressure. Over 70 million more adults now have high blood pressure compared with the figure years ago.

Two more people have died of the unknown disease that has spread in Banke district in mid- western Nepal, taking the death toll so far to 14, the National News Agency RSS reported on Tuesday.

Chinese scholars are compiling the country's first textbook devoted to literature written by women.

Chinese cinemas will start showing Hollywood blockbuster "Miami Vice" on Wednesday after its release has been delayed by a month-long national campaign to promote domestic films celebrating China's revolutionary history during "Red October".

There are still 800 million illiterate people in the world and the school dropout rate in some countries is still very high, according to Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2007, released by UNESCO.

Five types of sexual harassment towards women have been defined in Shanghai, according to the Procedures of Shanghai Municipality on the Implementation of the Law Safeguarding Women's Rights and Interests in the People's Republic of China, on October 29.

Fifteen people were killed and 12,000 villagers feared displaced in southeast Ethiopia after a river burst its banks during torrential rainfalls that have stricken the area for the past two days, the Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) reported Monday.

Development and poverty issues should top the agenda of the forthcoming Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation scheduled from November 4 to 5, Zambia's Foreign Minister Mundia Sikatana said here on Monday.

The Nigerian government pledges to step up its efforts to improve aviation safety after an air crash killing some 95 people Sunday, a high ranking official said here on Monday.