Get the latest news on Asia Pacific region, including news on Chinese foreign relations, the United States, Japan, India and Korean Peninsula from africa.chinadaily.com.cn
Typhoon Krosa (crane), which has weakened to a tropical storm and depression, hit Cambodia Wednesday night, killing three people and destroying 79 wooden houses.
Tajikistan's incumbent president, Emomali Rahmon, has won 83.6 percent of the vote in the national election and will serve as president for another seven years.
Classes in some provinces of southern Philippines were canceled Thursday as supertyphoon Haiyan came nearer to the country's eastern coast.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet is expected make a decision on whether to revise the government's stance on Japan's right to exercise collective self-defense, said a key security adviser to Abe on Wednesday.
Pakistan's former president Pervez Musharraf was freed late Wednesday two days after a court granted him bail in the murder case of the deputy chief of Islamabad's Red Mosque, who was killed in a military raid in 2007, his lawyer said.
The chief of US forces in the Pacific says he's planning for the possibility that the DPRK has an intercontinental ballistic missile that can hit the US although it's unclear if they really do.
A 5-magnitude quake jolted the bordering area between China and India at 12:16 pm Wednesday Beijing Time, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.
Australia has vowed to assist Myanmar in the latter's political reform process and a wide range of sectors including education and health.
Thanks to a large ancient tooth, an Australian university student has filled in an evolutionary gap with a giant carnivorous platypus that became extinct at least 5 million years ago.
Presidential election has kicked off in Tajikistan wednesday morning, with six candidates running for presidency.
A volcano erupted for the third time in as many months on the western Indonesian island of Sumatra, forcing hundreds of villagers to evacuate, officials said.
On the 40th anniversary of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's presence in China, ABC International has launched a Chinese/English mobile phone app into the Chinese market.
Copyright 1995 - 2010 . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263 Registration Number: 20100000002731 
