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Time is running out for the mainland Chinese right-of-abode seekers as they step up their campaign to stay in Hong Kong.

A bomb scare in Malaysia's federal court building has delayed the jailed former deputy prime minister's appeal over his corruption conviction.

A top Chinese legislator has urged Beijing to encourage businesses to invest instead of relying on state bonds to stimulate spending.

The Bush administration is putting North Korea on notice, saying it will refuse to certify that the secretive communist state is abiding by a 1994 deal freezing its nuclear weapons program.

United States President George W. Bush has refused to rule out using nuclear weapons to defend his country and says the U.S. is prepared to act against countries it suspects possesses weapons of mass destruction.

Two Australian social work academics have called for an investigation into suspected child abuse at the Woomera refugee detention camp, citing a legal obligation to report their suspicions.

A 19-year-old man has run more than 4,000 kilometers (2,500 miles) across the breadth of Australia to raise money for charity.

Chinese President Jiang Zemin has asked the armed forces to make solid preparation for military struggle in order to attain national reunification.

The Chinese government says it is deeply shocked at reports of U.S. military plans to target seven countries, including China, for the possible future use of nuclear weapons.

Chinese President Jiang Zemin is planning a major international tour that will include visits to Germany and Iran and is aimed at sending a clear message to the United States on Taiwan.

China plans to list its controversial U.S.$22 billion Three Gorges project in Hong Kong and other overseas markets in a bid to raise money for the world's largest dam.

China has refused permission for a U.S. warship to make a port call in Hong Kong in early April, the U.S. consulate in the territory has confirmed.

More than 2,600 influential officials were last year implicated in crimes including corruption, with triad groups increasingly implicated in this scourge of Chinese administration.

China's top graft-buster has maintained that corruption is under control despite the well-publicized scandals involving banks and customs authorities.

China's armed forces are set to get a budget boost of 17.6 percent this year and Beijing has recommended a record budget deficit of 309.8 billion yuan to ensure that the economy continues to grow at an annual rate of 7 percent.

Less than a week after the United States issued a report highly critical of China's human rights record, Beijing releases its own report lambasting what it says are serious human rights violations in the U.S.

China and India, the world's two most populous countries, have opened a direct air route, marking a milestone in warmer ties between the former foes.

A Chinese court has sentenced American engineer Fong Fuming to five years in prison for bribery and obtaining state secrets, a U.S. Embassy spokesman told CNN.

China's generals have indicated that the army's big budget boost is modest and will not constitute a threat to foreign countries.

Human rights group Amnesty International has accused China of stepping up repression and executions of separatist Muslim Uighurs by invoking the war on terrorism.

Chinese Vice-President Hu Jintao's trip to the U.S. could be jeopardized by Taiwan Defense Minister Tang Yao-ming's participation in a non-official conference in Florida.

Fearing a surge of refugees, China has said it will not allow its decision to let a group of North Korean refugees leave for Seoul last week set a precedent.

Commonwealth leaders have agreed to expel any member countries that aid or support terrorism, and provide legal and financial help to struggling nations meet their commitments in this area.

Could a good thing turn bad? This may be the case for the tens of thousands of North Korean refugees who are living in hiding in the towns along the North Korea-China border.

An explosion has rocked a Hindu temple in India's Jammu and Kashmir state during an attack by two suspected Islamic militants that left at least 10 people dead.

Thirty two people were killed within a 24-hour period when security forces and Maoist rebels clashed in various districts across Nepal on Wednesday.

Deposed Philippine president Joseph Estrada may dodge the death penalty even if he is convicted for plunder, one of four criminal charges he is facing before the Sandiganbayan anti-graft court.

The long-awaited trials of military and government officers accused of human rights abuses in the former Indonesian province of East Timor have begun in Jakarta.

The chief negotiator for the Tamil Tiger rebels has flown into Sri Lanka, ending a three-year self-imposed exile.

Bold members of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement hijacked state television for as long as 50 minutes in a northeastern Chinese city to show a film protesting a crackdown on their faith.

Bold members of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement hijacked state television for as long as 50 minutes in a northeastern Chinese city to show a film protesting a crackdown on their faith.

The director of the FBI has wrapped up a tour of Southeast Asia warning key allies that the region has the potential to become a sanctuary for members of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network following the collapse of Taliban rule in Afghanistan.

Foreign triads are infiltrating China, adding to Beijing's woes in combating a 'serious threat to public order', the head of the country's criminal investigation department has said.

Former New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange has claimed that ex-U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle threatened to have him liquidated over his country's anti-nuclear policy in the 1980s.

Former New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange has claimed that ex-U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle threatened to have him liquidated over his country's anti-nuclear policy in the 1980s.

Religious violence has again erupted in India's Gujarat state, leaving two Hindu tribesmen dead after a riot broke out in Vadodara.

Hindu activists are continuing to take a firm stance on the construction of a controversial temple in northern India, with a top leader adamant that rebuilding would start this year.

The skyscraper capital of the world has picked the designs of British architect Lord Norman Foster to turn 40 hectares of prime harborside land into a world-class cultural quarter

India is hoping a massive security presence and a compromise by a hardline Hindu leader may save the holy town of Ayodhya from a fresh bout of clashes.

Fearing a further outbreak of religious violence spurred by a court decision, Indian authorities have all-but sealed off the holy town of Ayodhya in northern India.

India's top court has ruled against allowing a Hindu prayer ceremony near a site sacred to both Hindus and Muslims in the town of Ayodhya in western India.

India's top court has ruled against allowing a Hindu prayer ceremony near a site sacred to both Hindus and Muslims in the town of Ayodhya in western India.

With religious tension in western India simmering, all eyes are focused on a court decision that could spark another outbreak of secular violence.

Allies have lined up behind India's prime minister saying that his cobbled coalition, racked by dissent over activities of Hindu hardliners, would stick to a secular agenda.

India's powerful lower house of parliament has passed a controversial new anti-terrorism bill that would give police sweeping powers to arrest and punish suspects.

India's hardline home minister has shunned an invitation to visit Pakistan for talks.

Tough anti-terror laws backed by the Indian government face a rough ride in the upper house of India's parliament on Thursday.

In a victory for India's opposition, a controversial anti-terrorism bill failed to pass the South Asian nation's upper house of parliament by the narrow margin of 11 votes.

A surveillance videotape found in what the U.S. military calls an al Qaeda safehouse in Afghanistan shows, what authorities say, the reach of a Singapore terrorist cell.