介绍:
900 million Chinese to vote in grass-root elections for lawmakers
China to make laws on taxes of environmental protection, tobacco leaf
Free flow of teachers advised to solve shortage in rural China
Work starts on China's biggest ever hotel venture in New Zealand
Aussie PM downplays "risk" of selling Port of Darwin to Chinese firm
Palestinian kills U.S. tourist in stabbing spree on Tel Aviv boardwalk
US elections: Trump wins two more states
Russian pilot dead as cargo plane crashes into sea in Bangladesh
Four police officers shot in New Zealand
Human vs machine Go showdown kicks off in Seoul
More than 900-million Chinese citizens will be eligible to vote in grass-root county or township-level elections later this year.
A work report from the country's top legislature says that beginning this year, elections will be held for the People's Congress at the county and township levels.
Officials describe the election as a major political event in China, and an important step in the development of socialist democracy.
The annual work report delivered at the ongoing meetings of the National People's Congress has announced several new tax laws in China.
New rules regarding environmental protection taxes, tonnage tax, and tobacco leaf tax are to be announced later this year.
Other laws concerning grain and asset valuation are also a part of the legislation agenda in 2016.
The top legislature will also revise the Securities Law.
A political adviser has suggested that China should train a group of educators who are free to travel across the country to address staff shortages in rural areas.
Liu Changming, in Beijing for the annual meetings of the Chinese People's political consultative conference, says an education talent market should be created to balance the country's education development.
He says rural children, including "left behind" children who's parents are migrant workers in cities, have enormous potential that needs to be developed.
Liu, the headmaster at Beijing No. 4 Middle School, says the government can solve the shortage of rural teachers by purchasing education services from the market.
Work has begun on a hotel project billed as China's biggest-ever investment in New Zealand's tourism infrastructure.
Prime Minister John Key was present at the groundbreaking ceremony for the five-star Park Hyatt Auckland hotel in the downtown of New Zealand's largest city.
Beijing-based property developer Fu Wah International Group is investing 200 million NZ dollars or 135 million U.S. dollars in the project.
It will be the first Park Hyatt hotel in New Zealand, and one of 37 worldwide.
Australia's prime minister is downplaying any risk to the country resulting from the management of Darwin Port by a Chinese company.
A recent SMS poll found that nearly 90 percent of Australians believe the deal to sell Darwin Port to the Landbridge Group of China poses "some risk."
But Malcolm Turnbull has now stated that his government will not be taking the "text message opinion poll" seriously, and that both his government and the US government have appropriately assessed any outcome of selling the port to the Chinese firm.
He says all security issues have been explored.
Landbridge Group has signed a 99-year lease deal - worth up to 376 million US dollars - for the management rights of Darwin Port.
An American tourist has been stabbed to death and at least nine other people wounded by a Palestinian armed with a knife in Tel Aviv.
The attack on a popular boardwalk in the city came while U.S. Vice President Joe Biden was in a meeting a few kilometers away.
The attacker was later shot dead by police.
Biden arrived in Israel late on Tuesday for a two-day visit.
He was meeting former Israeli President Shimon Peres around the time of the stabbings.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has won two more states, Michigan and Mississippi, in his bid for the White House.
Florida Senator Marco Rubio came in a distant fourth in both states.
In the Democratic race, Bernie Sanders has pulled off a surprise win in Michigan, but Hillary Clinton increased her lead with a big win in Mississippi.
Republican and Democrat voters are choosing their respective candidate in the lead up to November's presidential election.
A cargo plane has crashed into the Bay of Bengal off the coast of southern Bangladesh, leaving one of its Russian pilots dead and two other crew members missing.
Another pilot has been critically injured.
The locally registered Russian plane crashed into the sea minutes after taking off from an airport in Cox Bazaar.
A search and rescue operation is under way.
Four police officers have been shot and injured in New Zealand.
The incident happened on a rural property on North Island when police were trying to seize illegal cannabis.
Only one shooter is believed to have been involved.
The alleged offender is still in a house which has been cordoned off.
A South Korean grandmaster of a 3,000-year old Chinese board game has lost his first game of a highly anticipated clash with a Google-developed supercomputer in Seoul.
Lee Se-Dol, one of the greatest Go players of the modern era lost the game of a five-day battle to the machine called AlphaGo.
The computer already crushed a European champion in a 5-0 whitewash last October.
AlphaGo is designed to employs algorithms that allow it to learn and improve from matchplay experience.
Its creators say it has grown even stronger.
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