Police on Tuesday have launched an operation to locate and rescue a Chinese-Filipino engineer who was abducted by armed men in southern Philippines on Monday.
Local residents in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture in southwestern Japan on Tuesday blocked the delivery of debris from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Northeast Japan to the city for trial incineration
At least 18 were killed and dozens of others seriously injured when a passenger train crashed into a goods train in southeast India early Tuesday.
Chinese fishermen detained by men from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea arrived with their vessels in Northeast China's Dalian on Monday.
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rusmussen said on Monday that the security bloc has reached an agreement on the road forward in Afghanistan, and will lead a training and assistance mission in the country after 2014.
The top US official for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Monday warned Pyongyang against "further miscalculation".
The United States government is renewing its focus on Southeast Asia, but it is not a part of the efforts to contain China.
A comprehensive forum on investment, trade and tourism in Indonesia, aiming to let Chinese tourists, businessmen and investors know more about the country, was held in Beijing on May 18.
An annular solar eclipse was observed across Japan on Monday morning, including Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka.
A senior Iranian lawmaker said Sunday that the imminent visit of IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano to Iran can yield positive results.
A 6.1-magnitude earthquake jolted the east coast of Honshu, Japan at 15:20 Hong Kong Time on Sunday, the Hong Kong Observatory said.
Afghan police, backed by army and NATO-led forces, eliminated 18 Taliban militants and detained 23 other suspects during a series of operations across the country within the past 24 hours.