Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar will visit Japan from May 23 to May 26 at the invitation of the Government of Japan, the foreign ministry said Wednesday.
Up to 100 girl students were poisoned Wednesday at a high school in Afghanistan's northern province of Takhar, a provincial source said.
A Pakistani doctor accused of helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden has been jailed for 33 years for treason, television channels and a local government official said.
Myanmar's gradual opening-up has brought many favorable policies that will bring tremendous opportunities for China's entrepreneurs.
Kyrgyzstan and NATO have signed an agreement on the transit of cargo by land through Kyrgyzstan.
A new research report finds that one in every four children across parts of Asia dies from drowning, more than the number of kids who die from measles, polio, whooping cough, tetanus, diphtheria and tuberculosis combined.
Chinese and Vietnamese working groups held the first round of negotiations on the demarcation and joint exploitation of the maritime space at the entrance to the Beibu Gulf on May 21-22 in Hanoi.
Former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama will visit China on Friday amid the ongoing territorial row between the two countries.
The Japanese central bank on Wednesday kept its key interest rate unchanged at zero to 0.1 percent, and stopped short of taking further monetary easing steps.
A man has been charged after allegedly shooting at a bus in Sydney's inner-west, the New South Wales Police said on Wednesday.
Even more than being banned from working in China, Filipinos are worried about the hard-line position their leaders have taken on South China Sea.
Glyn Davies, US special envoy for DPRK policy, emphasized a need for sanctions against the DPRK during meetings with Chinese officials on Tuesday.