April 02, 2014 2:16 PM BEIJING (REUTERS) - Authorities in a protest-stricken city in southern China have promised to communicate better with citizens battling plans for a chemical plant, after protesters complained that violence by law enforcement officials killed several and injured dozens. ...
April 02, 2014 3:08 PM TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's biggest organised crime syndicate has launched its own website, complete with a corporate song and a strong anti-drugs message, as the yakuza looks to turn around its outdated image and falling membership. ...
April 02, 2014 3:46 PM TOKYO - Japan's Meteorological Agency has warned that a tsunami could reach Japanese coast early Thursday morning, following a massive 8.2-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Chile. ...
April 02, 2014 3:48 PM SEOUL (AFP) - South Korea said Wednesday it had evidence suggesting an unidentified drone that crashed last month near the northern city of Paju was of North Korean origin. ...
April 02, 2014 3:53 PM SYDNEY (AFP) - Tobacco giant Philip Morris on Wednesday announced the closure of its only Australian manufacturing plant with the loss of 180 jobs, blaming regulations for limiting its export opportunities. ...
April 02, 2014 4:52 PM NEW DELHI (AFP) - The billionaire chairman of South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics has been ordered to appear before an Indian court next month in a long-running US$1.4-million (S$1.76) payment dispute. ...
April 02, 2014 6:07 PM NEW DELHI (REUTERS) - South Asia needs up to US$2.5 trillion (S$3.5 trillion) of investment in infrastructure by 2020 if the region is to make further gains in battling poverty and provide for its growing population, the World Bank said on Wednesday. ...
April 02, 2014 10:13 AM SEOUL (AFP) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has warned of a "very grave" situation on the Korean peninsula, where soaring military tensions have seen the two Koreas trade artillery fire and Pyongyang threaten a new nuclear test. ...
April 01, 2014 6:47 PM LAHORE (AFP) - A Pakistani man sentenced to death for blasphemy appealed against his conviction Tuesday, saying the charges were trumped up to speed the eviction of minority Christians from their land. ...
April 01, 2014 7:09 PM TAIPEI (AFP) - Hundreds of Taiwanese protesters who support a controversial trade pact with China clashed with police Tuesday when they tried to push their way towards parliament, which has been occupied by students for two weeks. ...
April 01, 2014 2:33 PM SEOUL (REUTERS) - An unmanned drone crashed on a South Korean island near disputed maritime border with North Korea, Yonhap news agency reported on Tuesday, citing an unnamed government official from the South. ...
April 01, 2014 2:37 PM BEIJING (AFP) - Chinese state media on Tuesday accused the Philippines of violating morality and international law by seeking United Nations arbitration in the South China Sea territorial dispute between the two countries. ...
April 01, 2014 2:48 PM WUKAN (AFP) - Voters in a Chinese village that overthrew its Communist Party bosses in landmark elections two years ago went to the polls again on Tuesday, but a key protest leader was absent from the ballot. ...
April 01, 2014 4:00 PM BEIJING (REUTERS) - A disgraced senior Chinese army officer is accused of selling hundreds of military positions, raking in millions of dollars, sources with ties to the leadership or military told Reuters, in what is likely China's biggest military scandal in two decades. ...
April 01, 2014 4:15 PM BEIJING (REUTERS) - China's foreign ministry said on Tuesday it was paying "great attention" to Japan's easing of its weapons export restrictions, in Japan's first major overhaul of its arms transfer policy in nearly half a century. ...
April 01, 2014 4:20 PM DHAKA (AFP) - Two students were detained in Bangladesh's port city of Chittagong after they were attacked by a mob over allegations they defamed the Prophet Mohammed on Facebook, police said on Tuesday. ...
April 01, 2014 4:28 PM TOKYO (AFP) - Japan on Tuesday enacted an international treaty on cross-border child custody disputes, more than three decades after it was agreed and after years of pressure from Western allies. ...
April 01, 2014 4:32 PM TOKYO (AFP) - A Japanese research institute said on Tuesday it will punish a young female scientist after a probe found a ground-breaking study on the production of stem cells was fabricated. ...
April 01, 2014 5:06 PM KATHMANDU (AFP) - Tibetans in Nepal face heightened risks of being detained, beaten and even forcibly returned to China, as Kathmandu bows to growing diplomatic pressure from Beijing, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. ...
April 01, 2014 5:37 PM BEIJING (REUTERS) - China's foreign ministry expressed anger on Tuesday after a prominent detained Uighur academic won a human rights award in the United States, saying that he was a suspected criminal. ...