Princess Noriko (R), second daughter of the late Prince Takamado and Princess Hisako, speaks beside fiance Kunimaro Senge at the Imperial Household Agency in Tokyo May 27, 2014.
Thai soldiers have been deployed at various sites in Bangkok to protect anti-government protesters who have started marching since early Monday morning to shut down the capital.
The "Bangkok shutdown" led by anti- government protesters has affected more than 2 million people in the capital, the local media said here on Monday.
Retired US basketball star Dennis Rodman appealed on Monday for the world to set aside politics, if only for a day, as he arrived in China from North Korea where he sparked an outcry with comments over an American imprisoned there.
Electronic passage of South Korean workers to and from the inter-Korean factory park in Kaesong will be made possible later this month, the South Korean unification ministry said Monday.
At least 27 homes have been destroyed in a devastating blaze in the Perth Hills area of Western Australia.
Japan has sent senior diplomats on far-flung missions worldwide to justify the visit by Shinzo Abe to Yasukuni Shrine, which honors war criminals.
Personnel of Afghanistan's National Directorate for Security (NDS) or the country's national intelligence agency have captured a Taliban commander in northern Baghlan province, a statement said on Sunday.
A worker assembles a God of Fortune statue as part of Chinese New Year decorations along the skyline of Singapore Jan 12, 2014.
South Korea and the United States reached a final agreement to share annual defense costs for the 28, 500 US troops stationed here over the next five years, according to sources with South Korean Foreign Ministry.
Seven people were wounded, one seriously, after gunmen opened fire on anti-government protesters in Bangkok early on Saturday.
Devyani Khobragade, the Indian woman diplomat expelled by the United States, arrived in the Indian capital on an Air India passenger plane Friday night from New York, said local TV channel NDTV.
The new fishing rule issued by Hainan province is no different than the China Fisheries Law created in 1986, the Foreign Ministry said on Friday, adding that Washington is sensationalizing it to jeopardize Beijing's relations with its neighbors.