Saudi foreign minister received a call from Pakistan’s foreign minister to discuss efforts to ease regional tensions.

Today (July 25) marks the two-year anniversary of completion and acceptance of the national earthquake intensity rapid-report and early-warning project. China's public earthquake early-warning service system has been preliminarily established, now covering over 400 mln people; mobile alert users exceed 228 mln, signalling the system has entered a phase of wide coverage, rapid reach and greater precision.

A Fukuoka branch of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party is accused of requiring members holding county speaker and deputy speaker posts to make large payments. A former speaker says he was asked to pay JPY20 million (about 830k yuan).