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.
A female Taiwanese who was kidnapped in Malaysia last month was freed in the southern Philippine province of Sulu Friday afternoon, local military said Saturday.
The Republic of Korea began to exhume the remains of Chinese soldiers killed during the Korean War (1950-53) on Friday, one day after its defense ministry agreed to return 425 sets of remains.
Gunmen on Friday shot dead a town mayor and three other people at the airport in the Philippine capital, Manila, sending travellers fleeing for safety, authorities said.
Ruben Miraflor, 15, a survivor of Super Typhoon Haiyan, decorates a Christmas tree placed along a main street at Magallanes town in Tacloban city, central Philippines Dec 20, 2013.
The ROK decided on Friday to set up the National Security Council standing secretariat amid what it considered rising threats from the DPRK.
Four Western governments opposed to commercial whaling on Friday issued a joint statement calling on whalers and protesters to avoid violence during the 2013-2014 whaling season in the Southern Ocean.
Humanoid communication robot Kirobo (R) and Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata exchange messages in their first communication session between a robot and a human being in space, at the International Space Station (ISS) Dec 6, 2013 in this picture released by Kibo Robot Project on Dec 19, 2013.
The DPRK has threatened to attack the ROK without any advance notice responding to anti-Pyongyang rallies on the second death anniversary of its leader Kim Jong-il earlier this week.
A Zest Air chartered plane with 180 passengers on board skidded off the runway of the Kalibo International Airport in central Philippine province of Aklan on Thursday afternoon, the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) said.
The Republic of Korea (ROK) and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) held working-level talks on Thursday to discuss how to speed up globalization of the Kaesong industrial complex, Seoul's Unification Ministry said.
Chinese Embassy in Myanmar and China-Myanmar Friendship Association on Thursday jointly donated 120 million Kyats ($122,448) to a charity school in Yangon.
Beijing police working with their Indonesian counterparts have smashed three telephone scam dens in Indonesia, resulting in the arrest of 112 people suspected of telecom fraud, including 33 from the Chinese mainland and 79 from Taiwan, since November.