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.
More Chinese economists are beginning to sound the alarm over the risk to China of holding more than $1 trillion in US Treasury bills, as efforts by the US Congress to raise the debt limit remain elusive.
Time to reduce dollar's hold
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A Lao Airlines plane crashed into the Mekong River in southern Laos on Wednesday, in an accident Thai television channels said killed 39 people.
Eight crew members have been rescued after a cargo ship with 18 Chinese nationals and a Vietnamese aboard sank Tuesday off the coast of the Republic of Korea.
Total primary energy demand in Asia and the Pacific alone is expected to nearly double between 2010 and 2030.
Muslims offer Eid al-Adha prayers at a mosque in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad October 16, 2013.
The second China-Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (Myanmar) Commodities exhibition in conjunction with Shandong Trade Fair (CAEM-2013) will be held at Tatmadaw Hall in Myanmar's Yangon next month, according to exhibition sources Wednesday.
A cargo ship carrying 19 people sank in Pohang harbor of southeast ROK amid a storm at around 21:30 local time on Tuesday, leaving 9 dead and 2 missing.
8 rescued after ship sinks off ROK coast
Two US Marine Corps' MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft joined in military exercises between the US Marine Corps and Japan's Self-Defense Forces for the first time in the western Japanese prefecture of Shiga.
About 100 firefighters are battling a fire in a disused building that has shut down part of Sydney's central business district, local media reported Wednesday.
The death toll from an earthquake in the Philippines rose to 144 on Wednesday as rescuers dug through the rubble of collapsed buildings including an old church and a hospital.
Sino-Japanese relations are unlikely to improve anytime soon if Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's speech to his country's parliament is any indication.
A cargo ship carrying 19 people sank in South Korea's Pohang harbor amid a storm at around 21:30 local time on Tuesday, leaving 9 dead and 2 missing.