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A top UN peacekeeping committee on Wednesday barred a Sri Lankan general accused of carrying out a military onslaught against civilians.

A traditional Chinese medicine company at the heart of an angry Internet campaign accusing it of cruelty to animals opened one of its controversial bear bile farms to journalists on Wednesday.

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping began a visit to Turkey on Tuesday saying that Beijing hopes stability would be restored in the region, while insisting that countries be allowed to handle their own domestic affairs.

Japan hope for a thumping win over Malaysia in their penultimate Olympic group qualifier to keep alive their hopes of reaching the London Games, the Blue Samurai coach said Tuesday.

India's top vehicle maker Tata Motors has selected a partner to build an assembly plant for its luxury British car brands Jaguar and Land Rover in China, a senior executive said on Tuesday.

Police in southwest China have detained a Tibetan writer amid scores of detentions in the region hit by anti-Chinese protests, according to a US-based broadcaster Radio Free Asia.

Shanghai Shenhua are hoping new signing Nicolas Anelka can revolutionise Chinese football, but he will first have to find his feet in a country where foreign players have struggled to settle.

After a long-awaited trip, Americans have learned that China's likely next leader enjoys basketball and the fresh Midwestern air but are still in the dark on how he will handle rising tensions.

A Tibetan monk burned himself to death on Friday in a protest against a crackdown on his monastery, in the latest of a wave of self-immolations against Beijing's rule, an exile group said.

Western schoolchildren are up to three years behind those in China's Shanghai and success in Asian education is not just the product of pushy "tiger" parents, an Australian report released Friday said.

China's leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping reached out to heartland America Thursday with billions of dollars in farm deals, as Republican Mitt Romney slammed the "prosperous tyranny" of Beijing.

The Israeli embassy in Singapore confirmed Friday that Defence Minister Ehud Barak had visited the city-state, but dismissed reports of an assassination plot targeting him.

China's leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping reached out to heartland America Thursday with billions of dollars in farm deals, as Republican Mitt Romney slammed the "prosperous tyranny" of Beijing.

Pakistan's military on Thursday unleashed a tirade against the US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) which accused its spies of acting like a state within a state.

The Defense Department on Wednesday referred criminal charges against a Pakistani accused of assisting in Al-Qaeda terror plots to a military commission, which is one of the last steps before a trial.

Jeremy Lin says he plans on going to Taiwan after this NBA of "Lin-sanity" is complete, the new Asian-American star saying he would return to a basketball camp he took part in last year.

Japan's football chiefs have vowed to shun the country's infamous "yakuza" mobsters, as the sport worldwide tries to protect itself against the long tentacles of organised crime and illegal gambling.

Sri Lanka's army on Wednesday agreed for the first time to probe war crime charges against its troops and investigate allegations of prisoner executions made in a British TV documentary.

Hong Kong's competitiveness as a regional centre for business and trade is under threat from the very thing often credited with its success -- its tax system, analysts say.

China's heir apparent Xi Jinping will meet US lawmakers critical of Beijing on Wednesday before heading to the heartland state of Iowa for a reunion with ordinary Americans he met on a 1985 exchange.

Indian shares rose to their highest level in six months during morning trade Wednesday, buoyed by foreign fund inflows, a rising rupee and easing inflationary pressures.

India's top vehicle maker Tata Motors posted a 41 percent jump in quarterly net profit on Tuesday, beating forecasts, thanks to strong sales of its British luxury icons, Jaguar and Land Rover.

Dramatic changes sweeping through Myanmar are luring back some of the country's millions-strong diaspora to help rebuild their impoverished homeland, in a reversal of a decades-long brain drain.

China's defence budget will double between 2011 and 2015 and outstrip the combined spending of all other key defence markets in the Asia-Pacific region, global research group IHS said on Tuesday.

China's Vice President Xi Jinping will Tuesday meet US President Barack Obama in a key early test for Washington's relations with the man on course to lead the Asian power for the next decade.

The United States said Monday it would send a senior envoy next week to Beijing for talks with North Korea on its nuclear program, in the first substantive contact since leader Kim Jong-Il died.

China's Vice President Xi Jinping on Monday started a week-long tour of the United States in a key test of relations with the man on course to lead the rising Asian power for the next decade.