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South Korea's Defense Ministry said on Thursday that its naval forces launched a joint maritime drill with the United States and Japan in waters off the Korean Peninsula.
US Secretary of States John Kerry said his country is open to the calls by Malaysia to be flexible in the Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations.
Japanese secondhand vehicle sales in September slides 4.3 percent on yearly basis to 293,040 units, falling for the fifth consecutive month.
A fire broke out at an orthopedic hospital in Japan's Fukuoka City early Friday morning, leaving 10 people dead and five others injured, local media reported.
As Australia moves to scrap its pioneering carbon-pricing scheme, China is expected to have seven pilot pricing systems in place no later than 2015.
Samsung launched the world's first smartphone with a curved display screen on Thursday, as the electronics giant seeks to maintain its lead in the increasingly saturated market.
Chinese tourists will make more than 90 million trips by the end of this year, the country's top tourism official said in Chicago on Wednesday.
ASEAN leaders have endorsed a recommendation by ASEAN environment ministers for a monitoring system for trans-boundary haze, said a press release Thursday.
The UN and ASEAN need closer ties to form a "bold" plan to address post-2015 ASEAN Community challenges as well as climate change issues.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said here Thursday that the US-led Trans- Pacific Partnership (TPP) is "a pathway to realize a market befitting the growth center of the 21st century."
US Secretary of State John Kerry assured China's Premier Li Keqiang the United States was committed to resolving a fiscal impasse.
The intelligence agency of the Republic of Korea told lawmakers on Tuesday that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has restarted a plutonium reactor at its main nuclear facility, according to two legislators who attended the closed-door briefing session.