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There has been mounting speculation in Beijing that Chinese President Jiang Zemin is scheming to retain his position of Communist party General Secretary, in addition to Chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC).

A factional struggle within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has intensified with President Jiang Zemin fingering certain conspirators and careerists within its senior ranks.

Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai will issue a warning to the U.S. but will stop short of asking for compensation for the families of those who died in an air raid led by U.S. forces on a village in the south of the country.

Typhoon Rammasun roared towards the Korean peninsula, leaving one South Korean drowned in its wake, while typhoon Chata'an followed fast behind, gathering force near Guam.

Beijing has boosted consultation with several central Asian states to prevent Uighurs trained by terrorist organizations from returning to, or infiltrating, China's Xinjiang autonomous region.

U.S. forces in eastern Afghanistan have discovered a large cache of weapons and ammunition, a U.S. military spokesman said Monday.

Long-serving Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has ruled out taking an elder statesman role following his retirement from the top job next year.

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is clawing back votes from his rival Pan-Islamic Party after clinching one by-election victory and narrowly losing another.

Pakistani police have charged a military man with attempting to assassinate the country's leader President Pervez Musharraf -- a plot that until this week has been kept secret.

Thousands of people have been asked to evacuate their homes as tropical storm Chataan swirls its way north up the eastern coast of Japan.

Pakistan police have arrested members of a banned militant group believed to be responsible for two deadly attacks in Karachi.

In the deadliest attack in two months, militants entered a neighborhood in Jammu City, Kashmir, and opened fire, killing 20 people and wounding 30, authorities said.

A bus in central Afghanistan has struck a land mine, killing 13 passengers and injuring six others, according to United Nations sources.

At least 39 miners have been killed in a gas explosion in a mine in Heilongjiang province in northeastern China.

Interactivity is a longtime buzzword in the entertainment industry and seen as crucial to keeping bums on seats.

A group of North Korean citizens seeking asylum are inside the South Korean embassy in Beijing and will likely depart Beijing for Seoul -- through a third country -- in the coming days, a diplomatic source has told CNN.

The South Australian city of Adelaide has a reputation for genteel charm. Not for nothing is it known as the City of Churches.

Two new tropical cyclones are gaining intensity as they head toward eastern Asia, already battered by flooding and high winds from devastating monsoonal weather conditions.

Correspondent Nic Robertson reports on the early stages of the probe into the bombing of a wedding celebration in Afghanistan by coalition forces.

North Korea has changed its tack over a fatal naval clash last month, expressing regret to its peninsular neighbor South Korea.

The United States has rejected as 'spurious' an allegation from North Korea that a weekend clash with the South was staged by the U.S. to strain ties between the neighbors.

North and South Korea are once again embroiled in a bitter row, this time with Pongyang accusing Seoul of infiltrating two warships into North Korea's waters.

Prosecutors in the trial of the Tommy Suharto are demanding he face a 15 year jail sentence for masterminding the murder of a Supreme Court judge -- a punishment critics described as 'a joke.'

North Korea has vowed to push ahead with talks and to pursue reconciliation with South Korea, despite the recent naval clash that has further chilled relations between the peninsula neighbors.

All 10 passengers and crew aboard a plane that crashed in the rugged mountains of Indonesia's Borneo Island have been confirmed dead.

New Zealand's Prime Minister Helen Clark will again be forced to seek coalition partners to form government following Saturday's national poll.

Prime Minister Helen Clark hopes to have a new government in place within two weeks after New Zealand voters failed at the weekend to give her center-left Labour Party enough seats to rule in its own right.

As New Zealanders prepare to go to the polls this Saturday, the main question is not which party will win the most votes, but who will partner with whom to form an effective government.

Pakistan's main opposition party has accused President Pervez Musharraf of strengthening his dictatorial rule by pushing through a series of constitutional changes which give him sweeping powers.

At least 29 people, and perhaps as many as 55, have died when a boat capsized on a lake near the tourist town of Kumarakom in southern India.

India's newly appointed foreign minister has accused Pakistan of reneging on promises to halt infiltration by Islamic militants into Indian territory.

In only its second week of a new administration, alarm bells are ringing in Hong Kong's government over a union dispute that is being seen as a major test of its authority and leadership.

The British-born Islamic militant sentenced to death for the kidnap-slaying of U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl has filed an appeal against his conviction.

China is honing credible options to attack Taiwan and could act quickly against what it sees as a renegade province backed by America, the Pentagon has warned.

The death toll in the Philippines following days of torrential rain has risen to 15, with South Korean tourists the latest victims of the deluge.

Authorities in Manila say that if the Abu Sayyaf rebel leaders indicted by the United States are caught they will face trial first in the Philippines.

At least two people were hacked to death and a policeman seriously injured after a group of armed men raided a police station in the latest wave of election-related violence in Papua New Guinea.

Attempts to salvage a cargo ship stuck on a sandbar near Australia's Great Barrier Reef will not begin until late Wednesday at the earliest, with rescue experts tipping a difficult task ahead.

Tensions have heightened ahead of a visit to the Philippines by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, with protesters threatening to rally over the shooting of a suspected Muslim extremist.

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell will return to India and Pakistan later in the month in a bid to keep a lid on tensions between the nuclear neighbors on the subcontinent.

China may be engaging in a new strategy of intimidating Taiwan rather than trying to achieve an outright military victory, according to the Pentagon.

Vietnam's new parliament is meeting for the first time as a high-level corruption case threatens to see more heads roll.

An American soldier has been accused of shooting a Muslim civilian in the southern Philippines, leaving a stigma on joint Philippine-U.S. war games just days before they are to end.

A Singapore Airlines passenger jet has taken off from Taipei's international airport after hitting construction equipment.

CNN has confirmed that a suspected al Qaeda terrorist, identified as Mohamed Mansour Jabarah, is being held in the United States in relation to a foiled plot to bomb the American embassies in Jakarta and Singapore and other targets in Southeast Asia.

A Filipino man has been arrested in connection with a plan to attack U.S., British, Australian and Israeli targets in Singapore.

South Korea's president has picked the country's first woman prime minister and sacked his defense minister in the wake of a deadly inter-Korean naval skirmish.

South Korea was on high alert Saturday as the country braces for a weekend of severe weather and flooding brought by a weakened but still powerful Typhoon Rammasun.

Inmates who took control of a large prison in southern Sri Lanka over the weekend have released their hostages unharmed and given themselves up.