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Five Japanese abducted by North Korea in the late 1970s say they want to remain in Japan and have their families join them there.

The Indonesian government and rebels from the northern province of Aceh have signed a peace accord aimed at ending more than a quarter century of conflict.

It has been an eventful year for Northeast Asia, leadership change, family reunions, economic uncertainty and nuclear standoff.

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has announced she will not run for president in 2004, a decision that drastically changes the political landscape for that election.

Investment banks in Asia have been struggling over the course of 2002. Mergers and acquisitions through the third quarter were worth only half as much as deals done in the same period of 2001. That has led to drastic downsizing -- especially in the Hong Kong market.

This year will most certainly not go down in the record books as one of Asia's best. The deep freeze of the tech slump has claimed hundreds of startup firms, although a stubborn few keep hanging on.

Australia's parliament has finally passed a bill allowing stem cell scientists to use human embryos for research.

Australia and Singapore have agreed to beef up air safety by allowing undercover armed guards on flights between the two countries.

Beijing has for the first time in a quarter century named a Politburo member to head the Ministry of Public Security.

A string of bombs tore through movie theaters packed with Muslims celebrating the end of Ramadan in Bangladesh, killing at least 20 people and wounding more than 100.

China has agreed to allow the United Nations unconditional access to investigate claims of torture, religious persecution and arbitrary detention after a three-year break in talks on human rights.

Four Afghan civilians were killed and three were injured during a military training exercise Friday afternoon when they wandered into the range of a mortar fired by an Afghan National Army battalion, coalition military sources told CNN.

The Fifth Generation of Chinese leadership has come of age with the appointment of Li Keqiang as the Communist party secretary of Henan, the country's most populous province.

Battling the beer bulge has taken on a new meaning in China where international brewers, facing saturated markets at home, are racing to tap into a booming yet glutted market.

The Chinese government wants to clear the air -- literally.

The future of magnetic levitation trains in China remains uncertain despite the successful debut of a short line in Pudong, Shanghai earlier this week.

Beijing has enhanced military cooperation with Russia even as it has continued to voice opposition to Washington's planned deployment of a national missile defense (NMD) system.

The Chinese government could be blocking as much as 10 percent of the Internet from the nation's estimated 45 million users, a comprehensive new U.S.-based study finds.

China's new corps of wine-connoisseurs is becoming full-bodied, enriched by a growing middle class seeking good health and a modern lifestyle.

Beijing has reiterated opposition to Washington's deployment of a National Missile Defense (NMD) system, saying it will upset the global strategic balance.

An official Chinese newspaper has blasted the United States over its recent stance towards North Korea since the communist state pressed ahead with a nuclear program.

The foreign ministers of China and South Korea have discussed in a telephone call the emerging crisis in North Korea, China's state run news agency reports.

The top Chinese official in Xinjiang has vowed to crack the whip on separatists and terrorists just a few days after an American human rights team visited the autonomous region.

Taiwan's ruling party has suffered a crushing defeat in a mayoral election in the capital, but the party declared victory in a crucial race in the second-largest city, Kaohsiung.

A detainee being held by U.S. troops in Afghanistan died Wednesday of natural causes, according to Pentagon officials.

North Korea and Japan are locked in a public relations battle over the fate of five Japanese abducted by Pyongyang decades ago to work as Japanese language instructors for North Korean spies.

Taking a bath is something most of us take for granted, but for the majority of Afghans it remains a luxury.

Sydney firefighters are hoping to control as many of the 70 fires surrounding the city as possible over the next 72 hours before weather conditions are expected to deteriorate again on Monday.

Weary Sydney firefighters peered through a thick pall of smoke for the first signs of rain Monday as cooler temperatures and calmer wind conditions brought some relief after six days battling relentless blazes.

Anjum Bano says she hides every time politicians come to her neighborhood asking for votes.

A gunfight between India's army and suspected militants Tuesday left at least six people dead, including a local woman in the Poonch sector of Jammu, police said.

Australia's leader has shrugged off Asian criticism of a speech in which he said was prepared to take pre-emptive military strikes against terrorist bases in other countries.

The administration of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) chief Hu Jintao is offering a new social contract to 1.3 billion Chinese.

Five Islamic militants and one Indian soldier were killed Thursday in a gunbattle after a group of militants attempted to cross into Indian-controlled Kashmir.