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.
The Galaxy Gear, a wearable computing device from Samsung that looks like a digital wristwatch, is certain to pique much curiosity when it starts being worn in public.
Australian election frontrunner Tony Abbott vowed on Wednesday that Asia will be his main foreign policy focus if he assumes office.
China rejected on Wednesday the Philippines' allegation that Beijing laid concrete blocks on Huangyan Island in the South China Sea.
With a click on a smartphone, the experimental "Armadillo-T" electric car made in South Korea will park itself and fold nearly in half, freeing up space in crowded cities.
Lawmakers from China and the Republic of Korea (ROK) issued a joint press communique Wednesday, urging Japan to reflect on its history of aggression and colonization.
Maintaining strong and sustainable growth is a main task for the Group of Twenty (G20) economies, Russia's G20 summit coordinator, or "sherpa," Ksenia Yudaeva has said.
The Group of 20 summit, which has played a vital role in stabilizing the world economy since the onset of the global financial crisis, needs to transform from crisis-response mode to crisis-prevention mode, said a US expert on Tuesday.
Policymakers of the Group of Twenty (G20) nations will meet this week in the Russian city of St. Petersburg for the eighth time to take the pulse of the global economy and strive to prescribe a remedy.
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 jolted southern Japan on Wednesday, public broadcaster NHK said, with the tremor shaking buildings in the capital, Tokyo.
Cooperation with China has greatly benefited Southeast Asian countries as they weather the economic storm in the region, Vietnamese Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh said.
Liu Jieyi, China's new envoy to the United Nations, presented Tuesday his credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the UN Headquarters.
China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have taken substantial steps to make technology transfer the next focal point for future economic cooperation, Wan Gang, minister of science and technology, said on Tuesday.