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A 31-year Indonesian woman has died from avian influenza in outskirts of Jakarta, the health ministry said Monday.
Panama will send about $200,000 worth of humanitarian aid to the typhoon-ravaged Philippines, the Foreign Ministry said Sunday.
South Korea and China on Monday launched the eighth round of talks for a bilateral free trade deal, Seoul's trade ministry said.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has visited all ASEAN nations since he took office last December, a move analysts said aims to shore up Tokyo's ties with the region to counter China.
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Sunday expressed appreciation for China's help in post-war reconstruction.
The death toll from Saturday's suicide car bombing in the Afghan capital Kabul has risen to 13, Afghan Interior Ministry said on Sunday.
At least five foreign nationals, including three Chinese citizens, are missing after Wednesday's furnace explosion at Bhushan steel plant in Dhenkanal district of the east Indian state of Odisha, said an official Saturday.
The Philippine death toll and missing individuals from typhoon Haiyan (local name Yolanda) surged to over 4,700, a senior government official said Friday.
No imminent signs were detected yet on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s another nuclear test though Pyongyang seemed to be prepared to conduct its fourth nuclear test at any time.
The ninth annual South East Asia Parties Against Corruption meeting is going on in Vientiane, capital of Laos on Friday with parties sharing experience in fighting corruption in the region.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Friday dismissed news reports that it had sent air force pilots to Syria to attack rebel forces.
The first China-US Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HA/DR) live troop exercises ended on Thursday in a US Marine Corps training area on the east side of OAhu in Hawaii.