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Chinese diplomats have expressed deep concern over the misrepresentation by some Japanese politicians of Tokyo's defeat during World War II.
At least one person has been killed and two others injured after a 150-year-old residential building collapsed in the Indian capital Wednesday.
As a scheduled annual event since 1981, joint drills between Japan's Self-Defense Forces and US Marines are slated to be the center of attention.
The ROK's Defense Ministry said that all military forces of the DPRK had been placed on high alert in protest against a scheduled joint maritime drills involving a US aircraft carrier.
The Afghan Interior Ministry on Tuesday said that 21 militants were killed and five wounded in operations since early Monday in different provinces.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen left here Tuesday to attend the 23rd ASEAN Summit and related meetings in Brunei from October 9-10.
The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant Tokyo Electric Power Co admitted that human error was the cause of a pump cooling nuclear fuel being stopped on Monday morning.
A series of joint military drills between the US Marine Corps and Japan's Self-Defense Forces using the MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft started on Tuesday morning.
China urged the United States, Australia and Japan on Monday not to use their alliance as an excuse to interfere in disputes over territorial sovereignty in the East and South China seas.
India on Monday successfully testfired its home-made, nuclear-capable Prithvi II missile from a test range in the eastern state of Odisha, sources said.
Gunmen shot dead a German security guard employed by the German embassy in Yemen's capital on Sunday as he was leaving a supermarket, Yemeni security officials said, in an attack they said bore the hallmarks of al Qaeda.
Pacific Rim countries pledged to mobilize scientific and technical expertise toward formulating solutions and establishing best practices for sustainable development here on Sunday during APEC meetings, officials said here.