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He holds boating and flying records.

A typhoon that caused widespread evacuations in Japan and left 61 people dead in the Philippines has finally begun to dissipate.

Taipei has said it is willing to talk with the mainland on whatever issue but it hopes Beijing will try to understand the Taiwan system better.

Taiwan lawmakers held a secret meeting with top Chinese military officials in Beijing last month, according to media reports.

The Howard government's controversial Pacific Solution plan to combat people-smuggling has come under fire again after dozens of refugees were granted asylum in Australia.

DNA tests on a body found buried on the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan, have shown it is the remains of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

McDonald's and Pizza Hut are the latest U.S. fast-food giants trying to carve out a niche in the hearts of India's billion-plus diners.

to create one Islamic state from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore to parts of the Philippines, Thailand and Myanmar.

A Pakistani court has sentenced former prime minister Benazir Bhutto to three years of hard labor for corruption.

He was once being groomed to succeed Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, now he faces a future in prison. Follow the timeline of Anwar Ibrahim's life; from his beginnings as a student leader to the convictions for corruption and sodomy.

The Indonesian general who was in charge of East Timor during the violence that surrounded the territory's 1999 independence vote has gone on trial accused of torture and failing to halt a series of massacres.

An Indonesian court has sentenced the favorite son of former President Suharto to a total of 15 years in jail for paying a hitman to kill a Supreme Court judge and other offenses.

A United Nations human rights envoy has slammed conditions in Australia's Woomera detention camp, saying the situation there in many cases was inhuman and degrading.

After blaming North Korea for the weekend naval clash with its southern neighbor, the United Nations Command in Seoul has appealed to Pyongyang to take part in a joint investigation into the battle.

U.S. air power was called in to break up a firefight between two rival groups of Afghans.

The United States has withdrawn its offer to hold high-level talks with North Korea on its missile program and other topics.

Two U.S. Marine helicopters were damaged and a local technician was killed after an airfield accident in Singapore, the Pentagon said.

Pentagon officials said Monday they were unsure whether the crew of a U.S. gunship fired in response to an attack during the July 1 incident in which Afghans say 48 people were killed at a wedding party.

U.S. troops stationed in the Philippines since February will begin pulling out later this week after wrapping up a six-month training program to help combat terrorism in the southeast Asian nation.

U.S. Special Forces in the Philippines are moving into a new a stage of training that country's military forces, putting the U.S. troops a step closer to possible involvement in jungle fights with terrorists, a Pentagon spokesman has said.

Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara is best known throughout the world for his late-1980's book Japan can say no.

India's new president-elect A.P.J. Abdul Kalam not only received the majority of votes during polling, but was also given some beauty tips by the electorate.

Five U.S. service members were wounded Saturday when they came under small arms fire from an ambush during a reconnaissance mission about five miles east of Khowst, the U.S. military said.

Indonesia is on the verge of declaring a state of emergency in strife-torn Aceh province to enable the government to fight separatists it brands as terrorists.

Afghanistan opened its first embassy in Australia with a caution to the host nation over its treatment of asylum seekers.

Afghan officials say two men, one a foreigner, are under arrest after authorities acted on a tip off and foiled a car bomb attack planned either on government offices or on international peacekeepers in Kabul.

About 40 people, all civilians, were killed Monday in an attack by U.S. forces on a central Afghan village, Afghan Foreign Minister Dr. Abdullah said Tuesday. Some 100 other people were wounded, he said.

Afghanistan authorities have averted an attack against government officials, according to a report on the country's national television.

The Afghan and U.S. governments vowed Saturday that the assassination of one of the country's deputy presidents will not derail efforts to bring peace and stability to the country.

At least 20 people were killed and more than 60 injured in Afghanistan when a U.S. plane dropped a bomb on a wedding party as celebrants fired into the air, an Afghan defense spokesman said Monday.

A leading HIV/AIDS expert plans to set up an institute in Hong Kong to develop a vaccine and try to prevent the deadly disease from spreading in Asia.

The Australian government has defended its decision not to sign a United Nations protocol on torture, instead joining the minority non-signatory group of countries with notorious human rights records.

Australian air force and naval assistance has been despatched to a British warship anchored off the Australian coast after hitting rocks in a World-Heritage listed zone.

Bangladeshi authorities are bracing for the worst as continued rains exacerbate an already serious flood situation in the impoverished nation.

Osama bin Laden is in good health after recovering from a shrapnel wound inflicted in December, according to an Arabic-language magazine editor.

A bomb blast has rocked the party offices of Nepal's prime minister in Kathmandu.

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell has had a brief meeting with his North Korean counterpart -- the highest-level contact between the two sides in almost two years.

Newlyweds in Cambodia will be required to plant two trees before receiving their marriage certificate according to new legislation aimed at saving the country's forests.

They may spit and grunt, but camels could soon be delivering milk to Australian households if plans for the country's first camel dairy succeed.

Forget shaving your head for charity, how about a quick dip in a tank full of sharks?

Ten people were killed and 22 injured when heavy rain triggered a landslide in China's southeastern Fujian province.

China has demanded the U.S. reverse its decision to impose what Beijing says are unjustified sanctions against Chinese companies accused of arms or technology sales to Iran.

China has insisted the U.S. reverse its decision to impose unjustified sanctions against Chinese companies accused of arms or technology sales to Iran.

Thirteen people have been killed and 11 injured in a chemical spill at a fertilizer factory in eastern China, state media has reported.

Whether in the hallowed halls of Congress or the humble hallways of home, Chinese policymakers are increasingly expressing concern over the growing number of amateur spies in China.

China's president has urged Hong Kong to do a better job for its people as the former British colony marked its fifth anniversary under Chinese rule.

China's very own version of the Loch Ness Monster is alive and well in a deep volcanic lake in the northeast of the country, if reports from several eyewitnesses are to be believed.

A joint U.S.-Afghan investigative team was on the scene Tuesday morning sorting through witness reports and trying to determine how and why U.S. planes struck a central Afghan village, killing scores of people attending a wedding party.

Three tropical storms continue to wreak havoc across Asia, forcing mass evacuations in Japan and creating fears of flash flooding in Taiwan and Guam.

Cambodia has signaled that a compromise deal may be possible with the United Nations to end a row over bringing to trial leaders of the former Khmer Rouge regime.