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Friends of 77-year-old Kim Yong-Wook bid him farewell. They have known him since they all were children in a village in what is now North Korea.

An al Qaeda plot has been set in motion in Manila targeting the U.S. and Israeli embassies, U.S. and Asian officials have told CNN.

Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is planning to develop a 30-passenger jet for the U.S. and Japanese markets, the Nihon Keizai business daily reported Friday.

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has accused India of bolstering its stockpile of conventional weapons and jeopardizing the power balance in the region.

Japanese government officials are expecting North Korean leader Kim Jong Il to announce later this month that he will cooperate with international nuclear weapons inspectors, a report has said.

Eager to send more positive signals to the outside world, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has approved the creation of a special administrative region in Sinuiju City, in northwestern North Korea on the border with China.

A slump in grain donations has forced the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) to halt food aid in North Korea, placing millions of people at risk of starvation.

A key al Qaeda operative has provided information that leads U.S. officials to believe that southeast Asia now has the highest concentration of al Qaeda members outside of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The fledgling nation of East Timor risks being exploited by organized crime and developing institutionalized corruption, because of its poverty and rudimentary legal system.

An inquiry has been ordered after at least 15 children -- most between the ages of one and four -- died at a government-run hospital in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata.

When the U.S.-led bombing campaign began in Afghanistan, thousands of Pakistanis took to the streets to protest. Among the demonstrators were students from Pakistan's many madrassahs, or religious schools.

It's easy to hide in Karachi. Located in the south, around 14 million people are jammed into this violent and lawless port-city, making it the largest in Pakistan.

An express train plunged off a railroad bridge west of here Thursday killing at least 16 people and injuring another 55, Pakistan Railway officials said.

Thousands of angry Pakistani tribesmen have protested an army operation to hunt down suspected al Qaeda fighters in Pakistan.

A Philippine delegation is probing claims of maltreatment among tens of thousands of illegal immigrant Filipinos awaiting deportation from Malaysia.

A turboprop plane carrying about 40 tourists heading to a resort island crashed at the Manila International Airport, officials at the airport told CNN.

You can wash it, roll it, crumple it, try to tear it, but plastic money just keeps springing back to shape.

Separatist groups have denied involvement in a bloody weekend attack on a convoy of international workers near a giant mining operation in the Indonesian province of Papua.

Financial markets in Japan have been stunned by the decision to appoint a new top banking regulator in a reshuffle of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's cabinet.

South Korea has begun a massive clean up in the wake of the worst typhoon to hit the country in 40 years.

Hundreds of police and military personnel are stepping up their search of the remote Papuan jungle for the attackers of a convoy of mainly international workers at the weekend.

For centuries, the Philippines was the only predominantly Roman Catholic nation in Asia, a position that has had an effect on its family planning program and its use of contraceptives.

Ramzi Binalshibh, one of the al Qaeda operatives most wanted by the U.S. government, has been captured and is in the hands of Pakistani authorities, U.S. government officials told CNN Friday.

South Korea is cleaning up after one of the most powerful storms to hit the country in decades wreaked havoc across the peninsula forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes.

Two Indonesian men have been handed hefty prison sentences by a Perth court for their role in smuggling more than 400 mainly Afghan asylum seekers to Australia.

Police in Karachi arrested three people Friday whom police sources said were linked to Harkat Ul Mujahideen Al-Almi, a terrorist organization.

A sweeping alliance of militant Islamic groups in Southeast Asia, with close links to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network, has been stirring up homegrown conflict aimed at toppling the region's secular governments in favor of Islamist states, the Singapore government says.

Taiwan has downplayed an allegation by Beijing that a Taiwanese broadcast operation was used by the Falun Gong to hack into China's TV satellite systems.

Taiwan's financial markets are closed as a powerful typhoon approaches the island, after lashing Japan's Okinawa and causing widespread damage.

Typhoon Sinlaku has spun closer to Taiwan, cutting power to homes, closing schools and financial markets, canceling flights and threatening the island with heavy rain.

Thousands of distraught and angry mourners have attended the funeral service of one of seven Christian Pakistani charity workers massacred by gunmen in the southern port city of Karachi.

Chinese leader Li Peng has arrived in Australia for a week-long visit focusing on the burgeoning trade ties between the two countries.

Hong Kong and the United States are forging ahead with a plan to post American agents at the territory's ports to stop terrorists from using cargo containers to launch attacks.

The U.S. military's investigation into July airstrikes that killed dozens of civilians at an Afghan wedding party blames the deaths on hostile anti-aircraft fire from the ground that provoked a U.S. AC-130 gunship to respond.

The White House has announced a State Department delegation will leave Washington next week on a trip that will eventually take the group to North Korea to discuss a broad range of issues.

A suspected al Qaeda financier was captured by American and allied soldiers in their latest push to disarm the Afghan countryside and detain terrorist and Taliban fugitives.

The U.S. military is conducting another large-scale sweep searching for Taliban and al Qaeda forces and leaders scattered throughout the Afghan countryside, a senior military official said Monday.

Tens of thousands of soldiers are expected to take part in joint anti-terrorist exercises due to be staged by China and Kyrgyzstan on October 1.

Agricultural workers in Australia's remote Kimberley region may have been exposed to potentially deadly levels of weed-killing chemicals, an independent review has found.

Taliban leader Mullar Mohammed Omar and former Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar may be forging an alliance, according to a Time magazine report, increasing the threat of more terrorist attacks.

An outbreak of food poisoning in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing has sickened at least 200 people and left several dead, state media has reported.

An explosion at a fireworks factory Saturday killed nine people, mostly workers, and injured more than a dozen in the central Java town of Slawi, police said.

A political activist for Kashmir's ruling National Conference party was shot and killed by suspected militants in Srinagar in the latest of a string of attacks in the disputed Himalayan region.

A suspect has been arrested in connection with two car bomb explosions that killed at least 26 people and injured 150 in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, on Thursday.

At least 26 people were killed and 150 injured by two explosions in the center of Afghanistan's capital city, Afghan television reported.

Thousands of Afghans crowded the main sports stadium Monday in Kabul to mark the one-year anniversary of the assassination of a popular Northern Alliance leader.

Suspected militants are being blamed for an attack on a convoy carrying a senior Kashmir government minister in which one bodyguard was killed and another injured.

The information which led to the U.S. raising its terror alert this week came from an Asian-based al Qaeda operative directly linked to Osama bin Laden.

The information which led to the U.S. raising its terror alert this week came from an Asian-based al Qaeda operative directly linked to Osama bin Laden.

Assassinations and failed assassinations such as the attempt on the life of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday have occurred several times since the formation of the nation's post-Taliban government.