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Tensions are rising high throughout the Asia-Pacific. From the Indo-Pakistani border, through Australia’s controversial border policies to China’s disputes with its neighbors in the South and East China Seas, Asian states have been increasing investments in their military capabilities. In all...

China plans to launch satellites to monitor its greenhouse gas emissions as the country, estimated to be the world's top carbon emitter, steps up its efforts to cut such emissions, official news agency Xinhua said on Monday. News of the plan comes as more than 150 world leaders arrived in Paris...

When a Thai meets a Nihonjin Chinese boy having a English speaking roommate

So many non Chelsea fans now enjoy watching the expression on Mourinho‘s face when he lost the match again and again. they are much much happier this season than previous one. Before Drogba,Anelka,Kanoute,Robinho,Tim Cahill and Demba Ba, the first premium league legend who set foot on Chinese...

A day after saying that Turkey had a right to defend its air space, US president Barack Obama offered an olive branch to another turkey, pardoning a bird named Abe in the annual Thanksgiving turkey-pardoning. Standing next to his daughters Sasha and Malia in the White House Rose Garden, Obama...

Wayne Rooney is being targeted as the face of the revamped Chinese Super League as China tries to establish itself as a major football nation, according to reports. The Manchester United and England captain, who turned 30 last month, has struggled for goals despite his club’s fine start to the...

NEW DELHI — Following recent summit talks, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang have agreed to seek what both called a "fair resolution" to the border dispute between the two countries. Defense analysts and officials in New Delhi, however, said the talks have not...

A top Chinese military officer visited Djibouti at the weekend, official media reported, prompting a state-run newspaper Tuesday to downplay concerns Beijing is planning to establish a base in the strategically vital African entrepot. The chief of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) general...

China offers free higher education to poor students China is set to provide free senior high school education to more poor students to further escalate school enrolments, the media reported on Tuesday. Vice president of the National Institute of Education Sciences Zeng Tianshan pointed out...

BEIJING, Oct. 29-- China will allow all couples to have two children, abandoning its decades-long one-child policy, the Communist Party of China (CPC) announced after a key meeting on Thursday. The change of policy is intended to balance population development and address the challenge of an...

A goodwill visit by an Indian warship to South Korea’s Incheon port aimed at strengthening military ties ended up causing deep embarrassment to the Indian Navy after two of its sailors were accused of sexual harassment by a local woman. The groping incident is said to have taken place at a...

Bright red Elmo stuffed toys are everywhere. Some are being sewn, others are having their batteries tested, and some more are being packed into neat little boxes. The toys, based on the character from the TV show Sesame Street, are, as is often the case, being made by a Chinese firm for export...

KATHMANDU: Amid a blockade of trade points between India and Nepal by agitating Madhesi parties, China is mulling providing 1,000 metric tonnes of fuel to help the landlocked country tide over an acute shortage of petroleum products during the festival season. The first shipment is expected to...

WASHINGTON: This wasn't how it was meant to turn out. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the ritzy Silicon Valley electric carmaker Tesla hasn't exactly ignited the company's interest in India. Instead, the firm's honcho Elon Musk has disclosed that he is in talks with China to produce...

The new Museum of War Crime Evidence by Japanese Army Unit 731 opened on Aug. 15 on the site of Japanese biological and chemical warfare experiments on prisoners.Credit Gilles Sabrie for The New York Times Joy Chen is sitting on a bench outside a new museum about the medical atrocities...

The scandal surrounding structural flaws and falsified data for a tilting residential building in Yokohama has cast a spotlight on loopholes in the real estate industry’s entrenched system, according to experts who speculate the trouble may turn out to be just the tip of an iceberg. A number of...

An ambitious project of the government to install high-resolution surveillance cameras along the China border has run into rough weather. A pilot project undertaken in 2013 to monitor the movement along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) has failed to give the desired results and the government...

NEW DELHI: Japan has offered to finance India's first bullet train, estimated to cost $15 billion, at an interest rate of less than 1 percent, officials said, stealing a march on China, which is bidding for other projects on the world's fourth-largest network. Tokyo was picked to assess the...

BEIJING Sri Lanka would consider allowing Chinese naval ships to visit again but no request has been forthcoming yet, the country's defense secretary said on Sunday. Sri Lanka's previous government had caused concern in India with its close ties to Beijing, including allowing Chinese...