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 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.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) alleged Thursday it had arrested a South Korean spy here and an investigation was underway.
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 (crane), which has weakened to a tropical storm and depression, hit Cambodia Wednesday night, killing three people and destroying 79 wooden houses.
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.
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.
Classes in some provinces of southern Philippines were canceled Thursday as supertyphoon Haiyan came nearer to the country's eastern coast.
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.
Japanese Cabinet is expected make a decision on whether to revise the government's stance on Japan's right to exercise collective self-defense.
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.
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.
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.