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Torrential rains triggered a series of landslides on Indonesia's Sulawesi island, killing at least 14 residents and burying many more, a local official said Monday.
A survey released here on Monday showed that 12 out of the 19 surveyed Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies expected that the trade financing situation should ease over the next six months.
About 350 Taliban prisoners are on a hunger strike at a prison in Kandahar and a delegation from the Ministry of Justice is going to the lockup in southern Afghanistan to investigate their complaints.
The Association of the Southeast Asia Nations (ASEAN) said on Monday that economic integration between its members is well on track.
The embattled Afghan president pledged Sunday that there would be no place for corrupt officials in his new administration - a demand made by Washington and its international partners as they ponder sending more troops to confront the Taliban and shore up his government.
A suicide bomber in a rickshaw detonated his explosives near a group of police constables in northwest Pakistan's main city of Peshawar, killing three people Monday, police said.
It may sound like a sci-fi vision, but Japan's space agency is dead serious: by 2030 it wants to collect solar power in space and zap it down to Earth, using laser beams or microwaves.
The impact of membership of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) on trade is comparable to that of a free trade agreement, even without a binding agreement, says a report released Monday by the APEC Secretariat.
Japanese actress and singer Noriko Sakai was sentenced to 18 months in jail, suspended for three years, for drug use, Tokyo District Court ruled on Monday.
Obama is scheduled to visit Japan from November 12 with a number of top issues to discuss with Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, among others, the issues of the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) for US troops based in Okinawa, the environment and Japan's future role in Afghanistan.
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