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The world's largest nonfiction work and its earliest encyclopedia is going to be given a new lease of life when it gets reprinted for the first time in 600 years.

The Chinese leadership has for the first time stated its opposition to the stationing of American troops in Central Asia.

Top Chinese leaders have vowed to do more for laid-off workers, who have staged protests in more than ten provinces and cities in the past month.

China has asked the White House to explain comments from U.S. President George W. Bush that referred to Taiwan as the Republic of Taiwan.

Explosions in two Chinese coalmines have killed 31 miners on the same day that Beijing has said it will close thousands of unsafe mines this year.

Chinese President Jiang Zemin has again attacked Washington's anti-terrorist campaign, saying that fighting terrorism should have the right objective, based on authentic evidence and avoid hurting innocent people.

The man most likely to be China's next leader has promised Malaysia that Beijing will not be an economic or military bully.

An Air China jet carrying 155 passengers and at least 10 crewmembers has crashed in rain and fog into a mountain near South Korea's second largest city of Busan.

Chinese armed police stormed a plane at an airport in the northeastern city of Shenyang and dragged away a man after a bungled hijack attempt, media reports have said.

President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's plan to use a referendum to stay in power drew fire Saturday from the 54-nation Commonwealth.

A fresh storm has broken out concerning the fate and treatment of 364 mainly Afghani asylum seekers being held on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea.

South Korean President Kim Dae-jung has told his cabinet he is worried that the crash of an Air China jet near the city of Busan may affect attendance at the World Cup soccer finals.

Passengers aboard the doomed Air China jet have begun talking about the final moments of their flight, as their plane slammed into a foggy mountain in South Korea, catching fire and skidding 100 yards.

Passengers aboard the doomed Air China jet have begun talking about the final moments of their flight, as their plane slammed into a foggy mountain in South Korea, catching fire and skidding 100 yards.

Passengers aboard the doomed Air China jet have begun talking about the final moments of their flight as the plane slammed into a foggy mountain in South Korea, catching fire and skidding 100 yards.

A plan to link the Chinese mainland and Taiwan with a tunnel has been touted by Chinese scholars attending a specially convened conference.

After a visit by the Afghan refugee minister, the International Office of Migration has announced that the first batch of Afghan migrants in Indonesia will be returning to Afghanistan in early May.

For residents of India's capital of New Delhi, Monday morning blues took on a new meaning.

Just as basketball has for years provided a way out of inner city poverty in the United States, in Taiwan baseball has offered similar opportunities to an aboriginal population long treated as second-class citizens.

Voters in East Timor are going to the polls to elect a president who will lead the country into independence after decades of occupation and bloodshed.

He seized control of Pakistan in a military coup two and a half years ago. Since then, he's repeatedly promised to restore democracy.

United Nations envoy Razali Ismail has held talks with one of Myanmar's top generals in an effort to push the country's military rulers to release opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and resume talks.

At least four people were killed and 20 others injured when a bomb exploded near a convoy carrying Afghanistan's interim defense minister, in an apparent assassination attempt.

A palpable ripple of fear swept through the makeshift protest camp as Tsang Kwa Ngan told of her dread of being forcibly removed from Hong Kong and returned to mainland China.

Two months after religious riots first engulfed India's western region, the killings continue.

India, Myanmar and Thailand have agreed to complete a highway that would link the South Asian subcontinent to Southeast Asia.

India's parliamentary debate on the action taken to stop the bloodshed in Gujarat will be a very public test of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's authority and the future viability of his multi-party coalition.

Angry opposition lawmakers have forced a halt to proceedings in the Indian parliament as they increased calls for the chief minister of Gujarat state to quit over his handling of recent religious riots.

Former guerilla and poet Jose Alexandre Gusmao has won a landslide victory to become the first president of a soon-to-be independent East Timor.

Former East Timorese guerilla leader Xanana Gusmao has taken an unbeatable lead in the territory's first presidential election, latest results from the vote count show.

Former East Timorese guerilla leader Xanana Gusmao has taken an unbeatable lead in the territory's first presidential election, latest results from the vote count show.

Chinese Vice-President Hu Jintao has been warned against tricks and mischief from the Americans as he readies to meet President George W. Bush and other senior officials in Washington Wednesday.

The Hong Kong government says it may consider legislation allowing the use of mobile phone jammers in cinemas and theatres after a public consultation on the issue later this year.

It's a rare event in Hong Kong, and indeed around the region -- an international book festival dedicated to English-language writing in Asia.

While in Kuala Lumpur last week, Chinese Vice-President Hu Jintao told journalists it was not true that he was an enigmatic figure.

Sompop Jantraka is not a name most people have heard of, even though he was recently named among the top 25 Asian heroes by TIME magazine.

Hundreds of people linked to a hard-line Islamic group have been arrested in the Afghanistan capital of Kabul on charges of plotting to overthrow the country's fledging interim government.

Chinese Vice-President Hu Jintao will present a strong demand to Washington to stop boosting ties with Taiwan on a trip to the U.S. later this month.

Religious tension continues to simmer in the violence-wracked western Indian state of Gujarat after a spate of fresh bloodshed over the weekend left at least 16 dead.

Authorities in India are bracing for fresh religious clashes in the western state of Gujarat as lawmakers prepare to vote on censuring the government for its handling of the worst violence in a decade.

Condemnation of Israeli actions in the Middle East has taken center stage at a special meeting of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) in Kuala Lumpur.

The United States has sought naval assistance from Japan for a possible military offensive against Iraq, according to a Japanese press report.

Countering American influence will figure prominently in Chinese President Jiang Zemin's five-nation trip to Europe, West Asia and Africa, which started on Monday.

Afghanistan's interim leader Hamid Karzai is pledging to rebuild two giant Buddha statues that were blasted into rubble by the Taliban last year.

The killing of hundreds of people in a Maoist insurgency has prompted Nepal's king to appeal for peace and unity in a New Year message to his nation.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has warned the United States that it must not let needless disputes upset ties with China.

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has arrived in Australia touting a free-trade deal that could further build on the strong economic and political relationship between the two countries.

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has angered Japan's neighbors by paying a surprise visit to the Yasukuni Shrine, a memorial devoted to the nation's war dead.

Trade and regional security issues are expected to dominate a visit by Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to Australia and New Zealand this week.

South Korea is urging the North to revive reconciliation talks as the two nations meet for the first time in five months.