The first batch of Chinese aid for survivors of Typhoon Haiyan arrived in central Philippine city of Cebu, a relief goods distribution center, on Monday evening.
The railroad between Myanmar's former capital Yangon and Mandalay, a major city in mid Myanmar will be upgraded in fiscal year 2015-16 with the help of Japanese technology and assistance, official media reported Thursday.
The Philippine government said Thursday that it will try to speed up the burial of some 1,400 bodies, which remained in open mass graves almost two months after typhoon Haiyan struck the central Philippine province of Leyte.
Pakistan's former president Pervez Musharraf on Thursday avoided appearance again in a special court that is hearing high treason case against him and went to hospital in Rawalpindi for medical check-up.
Violence claimed 204 lives in the restive Indian-controlled Kashmir during 2013, a human rights group said Thursday.
Vietnam is projected to send about 90,000 labors abroad in 2014, up 5 percent year-on-year.
South Korea's military said on Thursday it would fight a court ruling quashing its move to kick an officer candidate out of the elite Army Academy for having sex with his girlfriend while on leave.
Raul Castro warned Wednesday that someone is waging "a permanent political and ideological campaign" in a bid to dismantle the island nation's socialism from within.
Negotiators from South Sudan's two warring sides arrived Wednesday in Ethiopia for peace talks, and a UN official urged both forces to bring the world's newest country "back from the brink."
Embattled Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra returned to Bangkok for traditional New Year celebrations in a display of unity alongside military chiefs before a looming showdown with anti-government protesters.
Chile took its seat at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Wednesday as a non-permanent member of the international body through Dec 31, 2015.
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardit on Wednesday declared a state of emergency in Unity and Jonglei States.
The death toll from the twin car-bomb explosions that targeted a hotel in Somali capital Mogadishu has risen to 11 while dozens more were injured.
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