Markets in Asia ignored losses on Wall Street overnight and posted solid gains...

Australia stormed back into the first Test against New Zealand riding on tearaway Mitchell Johnson's four-wicket haul that bowled out the visitors for 156 in the first innings. But the Test was tantalisingly poised at the end of the second day's...

Moscow, Nov 21 (RIA Novosti) Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has urged the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum to play a stronger role in ensuring global security and overcoming the financial...

It has been hailed as historic. A five-metre-high Ashoka Pillar now stands at a monastery located midway between Sydney and Canberra, in a celebration of the spread of Buddhism from India to...

A Royal New Zealand Air Force plane resumed a search Friday for 29 missing Taiwanese fishermen after their burned-out boat was found floating in the South...

London, Nov.21 : It is interesting to note how countries across the world have been performing in this temporary phase of global slowdown. Asia, which has comparatively been a little less 'harmed' than the Western world, has had its share of impact and is still trying to cope with it. ...

Sydney, Nov 21 : Former Australia cricket captain Allan Border has reportedly strongly criticised the practice of cricketers writing books, which, according to him, were nothing more than a medium to create...

Mumbai /Hong Kong, Nov 20 (ANI/ Business Wire India): Mark Robinson has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Citi South Asia. Based in Mumbai, he will lead Citi's significant banking franchise in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, and also join the Asia Pacific Executive Committee. Robinson succeeds Sanjay Nayar, who is leaving the firm to pursue other...

Sydney, Nov 21 : Almost all the leading news agencies across the world have decided to boycott covering the first Test between Australia and New Zealand, which began yesterday at the Gabba, because of 'conditions imposed by the...

A popular comedian active in Burma's democracy movement has been sentenced to 45 years in jail by a Burmese court. Zarganar was found to have violated the Electronics Act, which regulates electronic...

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, right, confers with Samdhong Rinpoche, Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, during a function in Dharmsala, India, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008. A...

Members of a U.S. financial industry group visiting China this week to push for more open capital markets said they found officials here alarmed by the credit crisis, but eager to work together to...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Cases of violence by Japanese school students hit a record high in the past year, with elementary students increasingly violent, the education ministry said. The number of cases...

Madagascar has agreed to allow a South Korean company to take over huge tracts of its territory for farmland in a deal showing the worldwide scramble for resources...

PARIS - After workmanlike wins over Argentina and the Pacific Islanders, France face Australia here on Saturday in a match that will define the success of their autumn internationals and provide the...

A consortium led by sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corp is in talks to buy a 49 percent stake in American Life Insurance Co (Alico), a unit of AIG, in a deal that could be worth up to $10.6...

Japan's central bank kept its key rate unchanged at 0.3% on Friday but warned that the economic outlook "remains highly uncertain". Bank of Japan's governor Masaaki Shirakawa expressed doubts that...

Seeing the rising economic and trading exchange between the two sides of Taiwan Strait, the government here is going to revise related regulations to allow easier entry of incoming Chinese visitors...

The earthquake left nearly 90,000 people dead or missing, but the government has never before said how many of the casualties were students. Most of them perished when their shoddily-built schools...

In the Taiwan market, growing demand for 2.5-inch external hard disk drives (HDDs) due to increasing use of portable consumer electronics has attracted many new vendors since the second quarter of...

-jeou has pledged to save the island's flagging economy amid mounting recession concerns after the government announced weak economic data, a report said...

HONG KONG -- Hong Kong stocks advanced Friday, breaking a four-day losing streak, on bargain-hunting and speculation that China will cut interest rates over the weekend.The Hang Seng index rose...

Global Financial Crisis TOKYO, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- Japan is expected to continue to face a severe economic situation for the time being and the country's exports are likely to slow down due to the...

Hong Kong - Hong Kong shares staged an impressive rebound to close nearly 3 per cent higher Friday after falling by 3 per cent in the first half hour of business. At one stage, the Hang Seng Index...

In a long commentary published by the official Xinhua news agency that appeared timed to coincide with the exiles' meeting, the Dalai Lama's repeated insistence that he is only seeking autonomy was...

By AUDRA ANGASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER BEIJING -- A little over a quarter of the 70,000 people who died in a massive earthquake that struck Sichuan province in May have been identified, a Chinese...

Security personnel man at the entrance gate of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in Tokyo, Japan, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008 as Japanese police have posted guards at the homes of former health...

TOKYO - Japan is bracing for another spell of deflation next year, but chances are price declines will be less protracted and damaging than the last, decade-long...

While consumer spending is decreasing amid the global economy downturn, white-box digital photo frame vendors in Taiwan are offering sub-NT$1,000 (US$30) 7-inch digital photo frames to grab market...

GlaxoSmithKline said Friday it has signed agreement for establishing a joint venture company that will seek to co-develop seasonal influenza vaccines and pre-pandemic/pandemic influenza vaccines,...

Japan's Nikkei stock index rebounded during today's trading to close up 2.7 percent. South Korea's main index rose 3.7 percent, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index was up 4.5 percent in early...

Taipei, Nov. 21 (CNA) Taiwan's international balance of payments registered a rare deficit of US$2.6 billion in the third quarter of this year, reflecting a decrease in the country's reserve assets,...

Visitors view the aquarium in Dubai Mall, a shopping area the size of 50 soccer pitches, November 20, 2008. The Dubai Mall includes the aquarium, one of the world's largest, an Olympic-size ice rink,...

Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) on November 20 unveiled Hami, a package of free value-added services specifically designed for CHT 3G subscribers using iPhone 3G handsets. Hami will be launched alongside the...

New Zealand at the Gabba, but again struggled with the bat on a day when 16 wickets fell. The hosts were reduced to 131 for six at stumps having dismissed New Zealand for 156, and the tourists...

TOKYO : The grisly knifing death of a former Health Ministry official and his wife by an unknown assailant and the killing's possible links to a scandal involving lost pension records have...

will continue to rise, their ascent is not guaranteed and will require overcoming high economic and social hurdles," the report by the U.S. National Intelligence Council said. Titled "Global Trends...

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd marks one year in power with his voter approval riding high, but the global financial crisis is threatening to derail his reform plans and puncture his ...

TOKYO, Nov. 21 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Land prices declined at 85 percent of 150 survey points in major Japanese cities and leveled off at the remainder in the three months to Oct. 1, demonstrating a...

TOKYO: Samurai warriors, housewives and children were crucified, thrown into hot springs and tortured, but refused to renounce their religion. Japan's extraordinary but relatively unknown history ...

Tennis legend Roger Federer said on Wednesday a male Chinese star would be a huge boost to the game across Asia and he hopes one will emerge in the next decade.The Swiss world number two said China's...

Japanese exports fell at the fastest pace in almost seven years in October as Asian demand cooled, pushing the world's second-biggest economy deeper into recession, official data showed yesterday. In...

shoes+ (AP) - SAITAMA, Japan, Nov. 21 (Kyodo)—(EDS: RECASTING, ADDING INFO) Police have determined that the murderer of former vice health minister Takehiko Yamaguchi, 66, and his wife Michiko,...

Close this MANILA, Philippines -- At least 781 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) have been laid off in Taiwan and returned to the country since September after their employers started declaring...

Australia is a hot favorite to claim its seventh consecutive World Cup title despite losing key player Steve Price to injury on the eve of Saturday's final against New Zealand.Price, a veteran prop...

Taiwan-based POS device maker Firich Enterprise is trialling low-cost POS products with potential clients in the US, Japan and China, according to the...

A 1954 Porsche 550 Spyder on loan from the collection of actor Jerry Seinfeld is displayed at the 2008 Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles November 19,...

An usually harsh winter is expected in the mountains of Sichuan, where millions of quake victims live in temporary housing that gives little protection against cold, rain and snow, provincial ...

Japanese stocks gained Friday, boosted by a weakening yen and other Asian bourses rallying despite an overnight rout on Wall Street.The benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average gained 207.75 points, or 2.7...

China's highest legislative body has already "reached the consensus" to boost individual income tax threshold soon to encourage domestic consumption, China's leading economist Zhou Qiren revealed...