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Chinese President Hu Jintao and visiting US President Barack Obama issued the China-US Joint Statement here Tuesday, expressing the hope that the multilateral mechanism of the Six-Party Talks would convene at an early date.
Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen highlighted Tuesday that development of a country or a region is strongly linked to the existing peace and security.
South Korea announced its first greenhouse gas reduction target Tuesday, pledging to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases by 4 percent below 2005 levels by 2020.
Japan's former Olympic marathon gold medallist Naoko Takahashi has decided to become a vegetable farmer.
A team of Australian surgeons worked all day yesterday on a delicate and complicated surgery to separate twin sisters who are joined at the top of the head.
The Republic of Korea's President Lee Myung-bak yesterday urged local media not to overreact to military movements by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
A blood-orange blob the size of a small refrigerator emerged from the dark waters, its venomous tentacles trapped in a fishing net.
Rockets slammed into a market northeast of Kabul on Monday, killing 12 civilians but missing their presumed target: a meeting between France's top general in Afghanistan and dozens of tribal elders and senior local officials.
A cargo ship from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Monday docked at a South Korean port, according to local media.
Thailand does not want to raise its diplomatic standoff with Cambodia to an ASEAN level, Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban said Monday.
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