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.
South Korea and China on Monday launched the eighth round of talks for a bilateral free trade deal, Seoul's trade ministry said.
Abe has visited all ASEAN nations since he took office last Dec, a move analysts said aims to shore up Tokyo's ties with the region to counter China.
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Sunday expressed appreciation for China's help in post-war reconstruction.
The death toll from Saturday's suicide car bombing in the Afghan capital Kabul has risen to 13, Afghan Interior Ministry said on Sunday.
At least five foreign nationals, including three Chinese, were missing after Wednesday's blast furnace explosion at Bhushan steel plant in the eastern Indian state of Odisha's Dhenkanal district, a minister said Saturday.
The Philippine death toll and missing individuals from typhoon Haiyan (local name Yolanda) surged to over 4,700, a senior government official said Friday.
A tourist from Taiwan was shot dead and his wife was missing when gunmen raided a resort in Pulau Pom Pom in Semporna on Friday in the east coast of Malaysia's Sabah State.
No imminent signs were detected yet on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s another nuclear test though Pyongyang seemed to be prepared to conduct its fourth nuclear test at any time.
The ninth annual South East Asia Parties Against Corruption meeting is going on in Vientiane, capital of Laos on Friday with parties sharing experience in fighting corruption in the region.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Friday dismissed news reports that it had sent air force pilots to Syria to attack rebel forces.
The first China-US Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HA/DR) live troop exercises ended on Thursday in a US Marine Corps training area on the east side of Oahu in Hawaii.
The United Nations, citing Philippines government figures, on Thursday put the latest death toll from powerful Typhoon Haiyan at 4,460
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