March 31, 2014 12:16 PM SEOUL - North and South Korea traded fire across their disputed maritime border on Monday, with the South's military saying it had responded to shells landing in its waters from a North live-fire drill. ...
March 31, 2014 12:30 PM BEIJING (AFP) - A Chinese mining tycoon who once mounted a billion-dollar bid for an Australian company went on trial for murder with 35 other alleged gang members on Monday, state media reported. ...
March 31, 2014 9:19 AM SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea has announced it intends to carry out a live-fire drill on Monday near its disputed maritime border with South Korea, Seoul's defence ministry said. ...
March 31, 2014 10:00 AM YOKOHAMA (AFP) - Soaring carbon emissions will amplify the risk of conflict, hunger, floods and migration this century, the UN's expert panel said on Monday in a landmark report on the impact of climate change. ...
March 31, 2014 10:02 AM SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea lashed out on Monday at the UN's top rights body for its "vicious, hostile" act in adopting a resolution condemning Pyongyang's record of systematic human rights abuse. ...
March 31, 2014 10:04 AM THE HAGUE (AFP) - The UN's top International Court of Justice will rule on Monday whether Japan has the right to hunt whales in the Antarctic, in an emotive case activists say is make-or-break for the giant mammal's future. ...
March 30, 2014 7:36 PM YOKOHAMA, Japan (AFP) - Leading scientists and officials completed a fresh climate report on Sunday expected to lay bare the grim impact of climate change, with warnings that global food shortages could spark violence in vulnerable areas. ...
March 30, 2014 8:53 PM SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea vowed not to rule out a "new form" of nuclear test on Sunday after the UN Security Council condemned its latest ballistic missile launch amid simmering tensions over Seoul's joint military drills with Washington. ...
March 30, 2014 9:05 PM BRUSSELS (AFP) - Xi Jinping received a royal welcome and an honorary knighthood in Brussels on Sunday at the start of a three-day visit that will see him become the first Chinese leader to visit EU headquarters. ...
March 30, 2014 1:48 PM TOKYO (AFP) - Five workers died on Sunday and two more are missing after a bridge collapsed during construction work on a remote rocky atoll, the Japanese coastguard said. ...
March 30, 2014 3:08 PM BEIJING (REUTERS) - Chinese authorities have seized assets worth at least 90 billion yuan (S$18 billion) from family members and associates of retired domestic security tsar Zhou Yongkang, who is at the centre of China's biggest corruption scandal in more than six decades, two sources said. ...
March 30, 2014 3:19 PM SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea said on Sunday it "will not rule out" a new nuclear test as it defended its recent mid-range missile launch which triggered widespread international condemnation. ...
March 30, 2014 3:22 PM TOKYO (AFP) - Tokyo on Sunday criticised Chinese President Xi Jinping for making remarks during a trip to Germany about Japan's wartime atrocities, adding that the government had lodged a protest. ...
March 30, 2014 4:29 PM TAIPEI (AFP) - Tens of thousands of Taiwanese protesters took to the streets in Taipei on Sunday in a bid to pressure embattled President Ma Ying-jeou to retract a controversial trade pact with China. ...
March 30, 2014 4:34 PM SEOUL (REUTERS) - North Korea threatened on Sunday to conduct what it called "a new form of nuclear test", raising the level of rhetoric after members of the United Nations Security Council condemned the North's recent ballistic missile launch. ...
March 30, 2014 4:41 PM TOKYO (AFP) - Japan is bracing for its first sales tax rise in years, with last minute shoppers buying up a host of goods from gold to ice cream, as the government tries to tackle its crushing national debt. ...
March 30, 2014 5:46 PM BEIJING (AFP) - Japan and North Korea on Sunday held the first formal government-level talks in more than a year following a shift in Pyongyang's handling of past abductions of Japanese citizens. ...
March 30, 2014 5:51 PM BEIJING (AFP) - China has laid out the charges against four suspects captured after a brutal railway station attack that killed 29 people and injured 143 earlier this month, officials said. ...
March 30, 2014 9:25 AM BRUSSELS (REUTERS) - Chinese President Xi Jinping will use two pandas to break the ice and soften European opposition to a free-trade deal with China during a visit to Belgium which starts on Sunday. ...
March 29, 2014 5:16 PM KABUL (AFP) - Taleban insurgents attacked the Afghan election commission's heavily-fortified headquarters in Kabul on Saturday, one week ahead of voting and after a series of bloody attacks in the city. ...