The KPA, with an estimated 1.3 million active personnel, is one of the world's largest militaries, behind only far bigger ...

Having failed to secure a cease-fire, the White House now hopes for a working buffer zone in southern Lebanon.

The tiny Southeast Asian country has the highest known deficit of any nation around the world According to the CIA’s World Factbook estimates for 2017, only 47 out of 222 countries worldwide are not ...

最近40多年，是亚太尤其是东亚经济蓬勃发展的历史性黄金时代。少数濒海的亚太国家和地区，借二战之后的工业化、全球化浪潮和“产业梯度转移”红利，已经跨入了发达国家门槛。而当取得经济发展的成果后，曾是全人类最高生育率的亚太地区，却迅速坠入超低生育率的人类发展陷阱。虽说当某地区进入准发达社会后，人口生育率就开 ...

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A child born in Singapore in 1960 was only likely to live up to the age of 65 years, but a child born today in the island nation can expect to live more than 86 years, The World Factbook has revealed.

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Rather than a harbinger of global justice, the ANC, since assuming office in 1994, has become an enabler of genocide.

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According to the CIA World Factbook, the petroleum sector accounts for roughly 42% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), 87% of its budget revenues, and 90% of its export earnings.

The violence and chaos inside Syria, where Islamic State terrorists and other rebel groups control large portions of the country, is so dire that millions of people have fled and the U.N. has ...