MELBOURNE - Global mining major BHP Billiton is planning a rethink on its focus areas for investments including the American shale gas venture, with weakening global commodity prices pulling down the...

Against the backdrop of recent self-immolations by Buddhist monks, India Wednesday struck a cautious note on the growing Tibetan unrest, telling China that it was "willing to offer any help" to ease...

With Beijing worried over the Tibetan unrest, India Wednesday reassured China that it considered the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) as part of China and reiterated New Delhi's policy of not allowing...

Voicing satisfaction at the progress in Sino-Indian relations, China Wednesday said there was enough space and opportunity for the people of both countries to develop together.

Welcoming External...

Child pornography in Australia has risen exponentially as paedophiles are increasingly exchanging images of themselves molesting a child with other abusers.

With the rise of file swapping, the...

A China based online blog, which offers an opportunity for single police officers to find their date as per their convenience, has become a huge hit on the Internet.

The move is part of a "plan of...

China Wednesday put forth a plan to boost employment during the 2011-15 period, which aims to create 45 million jobs and keep the registered urban unemployment rate within 5 percent.

Authorities...

A knife-wielding man broke into a school in China, stabbed two students and fled, authorities said Wednesday.

The man entered the No.1 Middle School of Nanchang in east Jiangxi province at about...

French Open champion Li Na of China was forced to quit her first-round match at the WTA Paris Indoor Open.

Third-seeded Li withdrew while trailing Bulgarian Tsvetana Pironkova 6-7, 2-3 at the...

The stupendous success of Cricket Australia's Twenty20 matches may help it win the 100 million dollar TV rights deal and change the way fans watch the Big Bash League.

A leading sports media...

Former Pakistan skipper Shahid Afridi has expressed his delight over Pakistan's victory against England, and insisted that the players should make 'winning their habit like Australia and South...

An Indian-origin taxi driver in Australia, who was acquitted of raping a young woman, has said that he has often been offered sexual favours as payment for fares and the practice is becoming very...

That's a scratch that will cost her dear, and she feared much more. But a woman in China is "relieved" she would have to pay only 188,000 yuan ($29,800) for a tiny-winy scratch her car caused to a...

TOKYO - Japan Airlines (JAL) said Tuesday that delivery of first Dreamliner aircraft originally expected by February end would be delayed as Boeing was removing a technical glitch in some of the...

India and China are making steady progress on the complicated boundary issue, said visiting External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna on Tuesday.

Describing the boundary question as complicated,...

With Russia and China blocking a U.N. resolution condemning the crackdown on protests in Syria, the prospects for a quick end to the conflict seem bleak. President Bashar al-Assad can also rely on...

TOKYO (AP) -- Japan and the United States agreed Wednesday to proceed with plans to transfer thousands of U.S. troops out of the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, leaving behind the stalled...

The trade union movement has hailed as "historic" a decision last week by the Labor government's Fair Work Australia (FWA) tribunal to award community workers pay rises of 19-41...

South Korea , which is under pressure from the United States to reduce purchases from Iran. The assurances came as South Korea's President Lee Myung-Bak held talks in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday...

The world's largest flat panel display exhibition will be held in Taipei in late June, featuring the latest trends and innovative designs in the industry, the organizers said Wednesday. Display...

Hotai Motor Co., the Taiwanese sales agent for Japan's Toyota Motors, is scheduled to release Taiwan's first self-made hybrid car Feb. 16, demonstrating the country's domestic...

Share prices in Taiwan closed above the 7,800 mark for the first time in nearly six months on ample liquidity and institutional buying, dealers said. With concerns over the eurozone's debt...

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, right, invites Prime Minister Stephen Harper to review an honour guard during a welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Feb. 8,...

Taipei, Feb. 8, 2012 (CENS)--Affected by global economic slowdown and Chinese New Year holiday, Taiwan's export value dropped 16.8% year-on-year in January. After excluding the factor of the...

Taipei, Feb. 8, 2012 (CENS)--Taiwan exported US$20.472 billion of machinery in 2011, up 22.4% year-on-year, according to preliminary statistics compiled by the Taiwan Association of Machinery...

Taipei, Feb. 8, 2012 (CENS)--Advantech Co., Ltd. and ICP Electronics Corp.--Taiwan's top two embed-system makers--suffered sales reduction in January mostly thanks to fewer workdays in that...

Taipei, Feb. 8, 2012 (CENS)--Some 36,692 new powered two-wheelers (PTWs) were sold in Taiwan in January, down only 1.3% from the same period of last year, according to data compiled by the Ministry...

Taipei, Feb. 8, 2012 (CENS)--In line with President Ma Ying-jeou's call to attract more investments from China, Kao Koong-lian, vice chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), urged...

Taipei, Feb. 8, 2012 (CENS)--Thanks to the appreciation of the euro against greenback and the net inflow of foreign capital, Taiwan's foreign exchange reserves increased by US$4.757 billion from...

Taipei, Feb. 8, 2012 (CENS)--Portent International Co., Ltd., a company reinvested by Thailand-headquartered ADB Group in Taiwan, has launched its nontoxic flame extinguisher, poised to penetrate the...

Taipei, Feb. 8, 2012 (CENS)--As the Chinese government decides to slow construction of affordable houses to cut the number of such houses constructed nationwide from last year's 10 million units...

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has kicked off his tour of China by promoting Canadian tourism at an event in Beijing. Harper said he hopes thousands will visit his hometown for the Calgary...

Taipei, Feb. 8 (CNA) Taiwan needs to reform its industrial structure as it has been focusing too much on the manufacturing sector, the government's top economic planner said Wednesday. New...

Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Hsiao Bi-khim, left, and DPP legislative candidate Lie Kuen-cheng hold a press conference in Taipei yesterday to announce that they will file a case to...

World War II ravaged the tiny island of Peleliu in 1944 as US and Japanese forces clashed in one of the fiercest battles of the Pacific campaign. Rusting tanks, wrecked aircraft and live shells...

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has accused the opposition of muckraking and evading debate on the economy, after the coalition tried to censure her over the Australia Day...

Japanese car giant Nissan has bucked the trend among the country's car giants, saying its third-quarter results were up as solid global sales offset the impact of a strong yen. The company said...

Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba said on Saturday that a heated, decades-long territorial dispute with Russia was far from solved even as they agreed to boost security and economic...

China continues to see rising gold consumption with a virtual tripling of gold imports through Hong Kong in 2011, but demand in December appears to have stuttered ahead of the Lunar New...

(MENAFN) Anglo-Australian BHP Billiton Ltd. said that in the June to December period, the firm's profit fell 5.5 percent to USD9.9 billion, compared with USD10.5 billion in 2010's same...

A Communist "princeling" fond of small town America and Hollywood war dramas, and brusque critic of Western pressure with a daughter at Harvard, Chinese leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping...

(MENAFN - Qatar News Agency) The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut its forecast for China's 2012 economic growth to 8.25% from the 9% projected in September, and it warned that exports...

(MENAFN) Japan's Cabinet Office said that in January, the country's service sector confidence index dropped to 44.1 from 47 in December, reported Reuters.The office's survey included...

MOSCOW, February 8 (Itar-Tass) - The way Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the Foreign Intelligence Service Director Mikhail Fradkov were welcomed in Syria confirms that the people of the...

The Hong Kong-based will hike rates $300 per TEU, starting March 15 OOCL will extend its largest rate increases to Asia-Australia services, starting March 15. The Hong Kong-based line said rates...

Lai Changxing was accused of running a multi-billion dollar smuggling ring in the southeastern city of Xiamen in the 1990s in one of China's biggest political...

Australia is not just that she is yet another billionaire media owner with corporate interests to promote and protect, but that she is renowned for her fiercely right-wing politics and promotion of...

Authorities in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province said Wednesday that the forest-rich region is facing a grim challenge in fire prevention due to a lingering drought. The province has...

China’s vice president Xi Jinping heads to Washington on Monday at a time when Presidential candidates and even President Obama himself are skewering China for unfair trade and currency...