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Immigration authorities in Hong Kong have forcibly deported the first of some 2,000 Chinese migrants who have been denied the right to live in the territory.

On April 16, 1853 the first train steamed its way from Bombay to Thana over a distance of some 32 kilometers (20 miles).

India is to launch a bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games.

Despite India's parliament adjourning in chaos and ongoing sectarian violence in the western state of Gujarat, the fragile ruling coalition appears likely to cling to power.

People belonging to the Jain community of northern India celebrate their biggest festival, Mahavir Jayanti, marking the birth anniversary of their sect's founder.

India's Parliament has defeated a motion to censure the government for its handling of India's worst religious riots in a decade, Associated Press reports.

India's prime minister has appealed for an end to the worst religious bloodletting in a decade as he visited the riot-hit western state of Gujarat.

Indian politicians and local community leaders staged a peace rally Sunday morning after a night of violence that left three people dead in Ahmedabad, police said.

In a sign of warming relations between East Timor and Indonesia, President-Elect Xanana Gusmao, upon news of his victory, made one of his first phone calls to his former enemy, the government of Indonesia.

Economic and diplomatic relations between Japan and China look set to improve, as Chinese leader Li Peng meets with Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi during his week-long visit to Japan.

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi will seek Beijing's help in settling allegations that North Korea abducted Japanese citizens, when he meets with Premier Zhu Rongji at the Boao Forum for Asia.

Chinese President Jiang Zemin has warned the United States over Washington's relationship with Taiwan, saying Sino-U.S. ties have been plagued by problems that could have been avoided.

At least three rockets have been fired close to the Afghan capital's main airport night on the eve of the arrival in Kabul of U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

Frequently calling each other brother, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and interim Afghan leader Hamid Karzai have promised to wipe out terrorism and terrorist sanctuaries in their nations.

A Pakistani government source said the most senior al Qaeda member captured since the September 11 attacks is in custody in Pakistan.

India's Hindu nationalist-led government was bracing itself for a pummelling by the opposition Tuesday, as it faced a censure motion over its handling of the country's bloodiest religious violence in a decade.

Known as the 'Red Devils', they are regarded as among the most fanatical supporters in the world, following their beloved South Korean national football side wherever it goes.

Emotions ran high as nearly 100 elderly South Koreans were reunited with their relatives in North Korea for the first time in half a century.

North and South Korea have agreed to hold two more reunions for families divided since the end of the Korean War in 1953, the Red Cross in Seoul has announced.

A Norwegian soldier was injured Friday during a mine-clearing operation at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, according to U.S. military officials.

Australian police have questioned a man over the robbery and murder of a teenage British backpacker.

Maoist rebels have launched a series of fresh attacks on police posts in west Nepal, killing dozens of people, including six civilians and many more police.

A sense of unease has gripped Nepal on the first day of a five-day nationwide strike ordered by Maoist rebels.

Four U.S. soldiers were killed Monday in Afghanistan after captured enemy rockets exploded during a clearing operation near Kandahar. One soldier was wounded.

Information found in Pakistan safe houses after the arrest of a key al Qaeda leader has been helpful but does not contain any specifics about future terror attacks, U.S. government sources said Wednesday.

The world's largest mining industry has suffered a double setback after experts announced that China has more than one million cases of the incurable mining disease silicosis.

The United States is sending 2,700 more troops to the Philippines for a joint military exercise aimed at helping the Southeast Asian country improve its defenses and its readiness for U.N. peacekeeping missions, the Philippine military said Thursday.

An undisclosed number of additional U.S. military forces have been sent to Pakistan in recent weeks in preparation for possible future action against al Qaeda targets in that South Asian country, CNN has learned.

The trial of four men accused of the murder of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl has been thrown into turmoil.

Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf is set for an overwhelming victory in a controversial nationwide referendum on whether he should stay in office for another five years.

President Gen. Pervez Musharraf will address the country Friday to unveil plans for a national referendum, the government has announced.

Relatives of former dictator Ne Win who were arrested for allegedly plotting a coup have been shifted to Myanmar's main prison pending their trial for treason, an official said Thursday.

Life has returned to normal in Nepal in the wake of a Maoist-called general strike that sparked deadly violence and disrupted normal activities in most parts of this poor Himalayan Kingdom for five days.

Prosecutors, citing terror threats, have won a change of venue in the trial of four men accused in the kidnapping and death of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl.

North Korea has said it will resume dialogue with the United States, but warned it will call off any future talks if Washington slanders the communist country again.

Both North and South Korea are expressing optimism after a visit by a South Korean envoy to the North, which included a face-to-face meeting between the envoy and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.

One of the men captured in raids last week in Pakistan has admitted that he is Abu Zubaydah, the operations chief of the al Qaeda terrorist network, U.S. officials said Monday.

Relatives of those killed in the Air China plane crash in South Korea have begun the grisly ordeal of identifying loved ones.

Doctors in the Pakistani port city of Karachi have gone on a one-day strike to protest against the recent murders of their colleagues.

Pakistani police Tuesday said they arrested at least 13 people suspected of belonging to the al Qaeda terrorist network.

Pakistani voters are set to decide Tuesday whether President Pervez Musharraf should stay in power for another five years in a referendum few doubt he will win.

The Pakistan Supreme Court has ruled that President Pervez Musharraf's planned referendum to extend his term of office is legal.

An Indonesian court ordered parliament speaker Akbar Tandjung freed from detention on Friday after his wife promised that the powerful politician would attend hearings in his politically sensitive graft trial.

Defense attorneys have won a petition to change the judge in the trial against Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and three others accused in the kidnapping and killing of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl.

The trial against Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, suspected of masterminding the kidnapping and killing of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl, and three other suspects was adjourned again Friday in Pakistan.

Prosecutors in the trial of four men accused in the kidnapping and death of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl filed another petition with the court Monday, this time requesting that the legal proceedings be moved outside Karachi.

The trial of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and three other suspects charged in connection with the kidnapping and murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl, is scheduled to begin Friday in a Karachi jail for security reasons.

The trial of four men accused in the kidnapping and death of American journalist Daniel Pearl has been delayed until at least April 30 as the prosecution petitions for a new judge in the case.

An initial U.S. Navy analysis of the bombing campaign in Afghanistan has concluded that 75 percent of all munitions dropped by Navy and Marine Corps aircraft destroyed or disabled the intended target, according to an official familiar with the study.

Investigators are ready to begin examining the flight data recorders recovered from Air China Flight 129, a day after it crashed into a mountain near the southern port city of Busan.