Up to 17 Taliban insurgents have been killed and 54 others detained as Afghan forces and NATO-led coalition troops launched military operations in different provinces within the past 24 hours.
Steps must be taken to humanize the US-China relationship, former US ambassador and presidential candidate Jon Huntsman said Wednesday.
Over 3,000 coal miners are staging a week-long strike in Queensland's Bowen Basin in Australia, local media reported on Thursday.
Kazakhstan's economy will rise by 7 percent by the end of the year, said Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev Wednesday at the 5th Astana Economic Forum in the capital city.
Employers in the Asia-Pacific region and the United States are showing themselves more eager than their European counterparts to recruit business and management postgraduates.
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.