ULAN BATOR, Mongolia (AP) — The Dalai Lama began a series of lectures to Buddhists…
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South Korea to send medical aid to North Korea
South Korea will resume sending medical aid to North Korea via the United Nations, officials…
Thousands send money to China’s Ai for tax bill
BEIJING (AP) — Thousands of people have donated more than $800,000 to Chinese dissident artist…
North Korean ‘defectors’ found by southern coastguard
Twenty-one North Koreans, some of them children, have been found adrift in a boat off…
Japan detains China boat captain off Goto Islands
Japan's coast guard has arrested the captain of a Chinese fishing boat after his vessel…
Chinese firms to increase censorship of online content
China has been keeping a tight vigil on online content as internet usage gains popularity…
More than 500 die in Thai floods
The death toll from Thailand's worst floods in decades jumped above 500 on Sunday as…
Afghanistan suicide bomber ‘kills six’ near Baghlan mosque
A suicide bomber has killed at least six people near a mosque in Afghanistan's northern…
Bhutto murder: Pakistan police and Taliban charged
An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has charged two senior police officers over the 2007 assassination…
45 saved in rare major Chinese mine rescue
Forty-five miners trapped underground after a rock blast in a Chinese coal mine were brought…