Asiapcf [5]

To outsiders, Taesung-dong, or Freedom Village, looks like any other quiet and well-kept farming village in South Korea.

One of Malaysia's only independent news groups is back online after a 10-hour silence following a raid by government officials.

Cambodian and U.N. officials will meet for a second day to continue talks aimed at creating a tribunal to try former Khmer Rouge leaders accused of genocide that killed 1.7 million people in the late 1970s.

Nepal's government and Maoist rebels have reached a cease-fire agreement, temporarily ending a vicious insurgency that has claimed more than 7,200 lives.

Former U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry says North Korea has ratcheted up the nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula by starting the reprocessing of nuclear material at its facility in Yongbyon.

Does North Korea have the bomb, and is it willing to use it?

It was just a year ago that President Bush placed North Korea alongside Iran and Iraq in what he called an axis of evil.

When U.S. President George W. Bush met with South Korean President Kim Dae-jung last October, he was reportedly taken aback by a horrific scenario.

U.S. military and intelligence officials told CNN on Saturday that the Bush administration has been involved in what one official called prudent planning for military options against North Korea.

The United States has given Pakistan until Friday to decide whether it will waive the diplomatic immunity of its U.N. ambassador, Munir Akram, so that he can be prosecuted on domestic violence charges.

A prominent doctor arrested along with suspected al Qaeda members last month had at various times given refuge to some of the most wanted al Qaeda members at his compound in the village of Manawan, Pakistan's Interior Ministry said Wednesday.

Pakistan police say they have foiled a plot to attack U.S. citizens and international aid workers during a raid on a home in Lahore.

Pakistan is concerned that forcing its citizens in the United States to register with the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) will result in harassment and deportation of innocent Pakistanis, State Department officials and Pakistani diplomats tell CNN.

Indonesian police have arrested two more suspects in the Bali bombing that killed almost 200 people in October last year.

Australian police are investigating whether a string of arson and breakout attempts in immigration detentions centers over the past four days were deliberately orchestrated to put pressure on the government.

As the Bush administration builds its case for a war with Iraq, it is getting help from an unexpected place -- a two-year investigation by Indian intelligence officials into a little known Indian engineering company.

One of Malaysia's only independent news groups was temporarily silenced Monday after a raid by government officials.

Sino-Japanese relations may be further strained by a new flare-up in sovereignty disputes over the Senkaku islands, known as the Diaoyu in China.

A Russian envoy has delivered Moscow's plan to resolve the nuclear standoff between Washington and Pyongyang.

Despite diplomatic envoys circling the region, North Korea could soon have nuclear weapons, that is, if it doesn't have them already.

MANILA, Philippines (CNN) – Richard Reid, the British drifter sentenced to life in prison Friday for trying to blow up a U.S. jetliner, was an al Qaeda operative, according to intelligence documents.

When delegates from South Korea, the United States and Japan meet to discuss and coordinate their policies on North Korea's recent nuclear developments, they are likely to agree on several points.

Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga has threatened to sack Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe for allegedly making too many concessions to the Tamil Tiger rebels at the ongoing peace talks.

U.S. and coalition military forces engaged in a six-to-seven-hour firefight Monday with suspected Taliban or al Qaeda members, the largest conflict in Afghanistan since Operation Anaconda and the fight at Tora Bora, Pentagon sources said.

American Vice-President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Colin Powell will be visiting China in the coming weeks -- the first in a series of high-level visits by both sides, the Chinese Embassy in Washington says.

A special U.N. envoy sent to Pyongyang to try to defuse a nuclear deadlock on the peninsula says North Korea and the United States are talking past each other.

United States troops in South Korea are looking at ways to improve their image and counter a wave of negative sentiment over their presence on the politically divided peninsula.

Repeatedly in recent weeks, Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea has been packed with crowds shouting anti-American slogans. North Korea claims that more than a million people turned up for one such rally.

Workers returning from their Christmas vacations are often more tired and stressed than before they took their break, Australian university researchers have discovered.

Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji has warned against hostile foreign forces trying to infiltrate China through spreading religion.

More than 500 U.S. and allied troops are searching dozens of caves in southern Afghanistan after the largest battle between U.S. troops and anti-government forces in nearly a year, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Wednesday.

Authorities are blaming Friday's land mine explosion that killed at least 18 people on a bus outside Kandahar, Afghanistan, on remnants of the Taliban and forces loyal to an Islamic fundamentalist warlord.

U.S. and coalition military forces were clearing terrain Tuesday in southern Afghanistan at the site of what U.S. military sources are calling the largest military action in the country since last spring's Operation Anaconda.

As Australian firefighters braced themselves for a potentially devastating spell of extreme temperatures Friday, state governments were calling in the heavy artillery.

Despite the easing of the fire threat in the scorched capital Canberra, there is no immediate relief in sight for southeastern Australia.

An Australian delegation has landed in Pyongyang to begin four days of talks aimed at alleviating the nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula, Australian media report.

Australia's Department of Defense has canceled all leave for its special forces units, increasing speculation of an imminent Australian commitment to military action against Iraq.

Australia is seeking to play a breakthrough role in solving the North Korean nuclear crisis, announcing Friday it will send a senior delegation to Pyongyang next week.

No link has yet been established tying Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist network to Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), the militant group blamed for plotting the Bali nightclub bombings, the head of Indonesia's police force says.

Lawyers for suspects in the Bali nightclub bombings have requested that the trial be moved elsewhere in Indonesia because members of their legal team have been attacked outside the courthouse.

Bangladesh has voiced its dismay that nationals entering and living in the United States must report to be photographed and fingerprinted.

One of China's most famous pandas is eloping to the United States.

The Cambodian government has apologized to Thailand and offered to pay compensation for damages caused by anti-Thai riots in Phnom Penh.

The owner of an independent Cambodian radio station has been charged with inciting this week's anti-Thai riots in Phnom Penh.

Parts of the Australian capital are on high alert for more bush fires as accusations fly that authorities didn't do enough to stop a weekend inferno that killed four people and razed more than 400 homes.

Residents of the bush land around Canberra began sifting through the ashen rubble of their homes after a weekend of ferocious fires that killed four people and destroyed around 400 homes.

In a step towards direct air links now banned between China and Taiwan, a Taiwan commercial flight landed in Shanghai on Sunday -- the first to arrive in the communist nation in more than 50 years.

A gas explosion at a coalmine in northeastern China has left 16 miners dead in the latest fatal accident to hit China's accident-prone mining industry.

The Chinese government says its position on potential war with Iraq is extremely close to that of France, which says all possible action must be taken to avoid conflict.

An explosion has ripped through a hotel in northern China, killing five people and injuring 11.