TAIPEI (AFP) - Taiwan said a record 2.6 million Chinese nationals visited the island last year, up a massive 45 percent from 2011, highlighting the fast improving ties between Taipei and ...
Indian police search for evidence in bomb attack
An Indian investigative official takes photographs of the debris at one of the two bomb blast sites, in Hyderabad, India, early Friday, Feb. 22, 2013. A pair of bombs exploded Thursday evening in a ...
China admits pollution-linked cancer villages
BEIJING: China's environment ministry has acknowledged the existence of "cancer villages", several years after widespread speculation first began that polluted areas were seeing a ...
Militants warned of Hyderabad attack last year police
HYDERABAD: Indian police revealed Friday they had been warned of a possible attack by Islamist militants in a bustling shopping area of Hyderabad where twin bombings killed at least 14 people and ...
Japan stages rally over disputed islands with S. Korea
TOKYO: Japan held an annual rally on Friday over Tokyo's claim to a set of tiny islands controlled by South Korea, which has been at the centre of a long-standing territorial feud.Some 500 ...
EM ASIA FX-Sing dlr up on firm GDP data ringgit leads Asia FX higher
* S'pore Q4 GDP up 3.3 pct q/q, 1.5 pct y/y; beating f'casts * Sing dlr outlook not bright after 200-day MA support broken * Ringgit up on short-covering; baht up on offshore funds, ...
China media Anger against Abe
Global Times believes Mr Abe has "ulterior motives" linked to the islands' row when he calls for a stronger US-Japan alliance. "He probably wants the US-Japan alliance to serve ...
US govt to air-drop toxic mice on Guam snakes
ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam (AP) -- Dead mice laced with painkillers are about to rain down on Guam's jungle canopy. They are scientists' prescription for a headache that has caused the ...
AFC Forms Task Force Against Asian Match-Fixing
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has set up a task force to help combat match-fixing in the continent, the sport's regional governing body said on Friday. The ...
Gunmen attack military aircraft in Indonesian Papua
Gunmen opened fire Friday on a military helicopter in Indonesia's restive Papua region as it tried to retrieve the bodies of soldiers killed in an earlier attack, a military official ...
Asian stocks muted on Europe concerns China
In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, an investor supports his head with a hand while looking at an electric stock price display at a trading hall in a securities firm in ...
Russia pledges to bring US child abusers to justice
Moscow, Feb 22 : Russia's chief investigator has vowed to bring to trial American citizens alleged to have evaded punishment for "serious crimes" against Russian adopted children. ...
S. Korean police arrest man after Gangnam style binge
SEOUL?A South Korean man who embezzled more than $4.0 million dollars and had plastic surgery to evade capture, has been arrested after a hostess bar spending spree in Seoul?s upmarket ...
China slams Japans Abe over interview comments
BEIJING: China has slammed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for telling a US newspaper that Beijing had a "deeply ingrained" need to challenge its neighbours over territory, state media ...
Asean India boost partnership
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) and Indian senior government officials and experts met in New Delhi, India at their fifth dialogue to discuss the partnership between the two ...
Amid tensions in Asia Obama hosting new Japan PM
Barack Obama welcomes Japan's new prime minister to the White House on Friday to reinforce a core U.S. alliance at a time of high tension stoked by ...
Top Pupils Two Years Behind Those In Asia
England's brightest pupils have fallen two years behind in maths compared to international counterparts in places such as Taiwan and Hong Kong by the time they reach 16, according to a new ...
Indonesian cardinal not going to conclave for next pope
(1 hr 11 mins ago) Indonesia's cardinal, one of the 117 expected to elect a new pope, will not go to Rome for the vote due to ailing health, he said in an interview with a Catholic magazine. ...
Asian death wave tops a year of big disasters
The earthquake and tidal waves that took the lives of more than 23,000 in countries around the Indian Ocean was the latest and biggest of a series of natural disasters in 2004, one of the worst ...
Aberdeen favours Asia in tough year for investors
Asian companies could offer some of the best opportunities in 2009, in what promises to be another ';extremely tough year'; for investors, says Aberdeen Asset Management. The group ...
Send money to India
For NRIs, one of the key concerns while living abroad is sending money back to their loved ones in India. Plagued by inordinate delays, huge fees to wire the money or to be paid to the agent etc, ...
The Asian stock indexes fell
The foreign currencies attempted a recovery in the Far East after the European and commodity currencies sank or two days while the yen struggled higher from near significant lows. The Aussie led the ...
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