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Japanese Princess to marry son of shrine priest

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.

Strained ties dissolve hope for trilateral conference

2013-11-08 00:12

A meeting of senior diplomats from China, Japan and the ROK failed to agree on holding a trilateral summit amid Japan's tensions with its neighbors.

DPRK arrests alleged ROK spy in Pyongyang

2013-11-07 22:05

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) alleged Thursday it had arrested a South Korean spy here and an investigation was underway.

Japan's lower house OKs bill to set up NSC

2013-11-07 16:37

The House of Representatives of Japan passed a bill for the establishment of a US-style National Security Council (NSC) in the country.

Typhoon Krosa kills 3 in Cambodia

2013-11-07 16:12

Typhoon Krosa (crane), which has weakened to a tropical storm and depression, hit Cambodia Wednesday night, killing three people and destroying 79 wooden houses.

College entrance examinations kicks off in S Korea

2013-11-07 15:24

A dance performance team cheers for a student (C) taking the annual college entrance examinations, in front of an exam hall in Seoul November 7, 2013.

Rahmon wins Tajikistan election

2013-11-07 15:22

Tajikistan's incumbent president, Emomali Rahmon, has won 83.6 percent of the vote in the national election and will serve as president for another seven years.

Schools close as Typhoon Haiyan nears Philippines

2013-11-07 14:50

Classes in some provinces of southern Philippines were canceled Thursday as supertyphoon Haiyan came nearer to the country's eastern coast.

Envoy seeks peaceful path forward on peninsula

2013-11-07 08:23

China's top nuclear envoy continued his shuttle diplomacy on Wednesday with a trip to Pyongyang in the hopes of narrowing the differences among countries for an early resumption of the suspended Six-Party Talks.

Japan charts course for collective self-defense

2013-11-07 00:52

Japanese Cabinet is expected make a decision on whether to revise the government's stance on Japan's right to exercise collective self-defense.

Former Pakistani president Musharraf released

2013-11-06 22:54

Pakistan's former president Pervez Musharraf was freed late Wednesday two days after a court granted him bail in the murder case of the deputy chief of Islamabad's Red Mosque, who was killed in a military raid in 2007, his lawyer said.

DPRK 'making progress' on ballistic missile - US

2013-11-06 16:28

The chief of US forces in the Pacific says he's planning for the possibility that the DPRK has an intercontinental ballistic missile that can hit the US although it's unclear if they really do.

M5 quake hits bordering area of China, India

2013-11-06 13:16

A 5-magnitude quake jolted the bordering area between China and India at 12:16 pm Wednesday Beijing Time, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.

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