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Indonesia's president satisfied on leaving office
Aug 26, 2014 (AFP)
Indonesia's outgoing President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Tuesday he leaves office with a sense of satisfaction after strengthening democracy and the economy...
Vietnam jails activists for up to three years
Aug 26, 2014 (AFP)
A Vietnamese court has jailed three activists for up to three years, a lawyer said Tuesday, after a one-day trial marked by strict security including the detent...
Australia tycoon apologises for calling Chinese govt 'mongrels'
Aug 26, 2014 (AFP)
Australian tycoon Clive Palmer on Tuesday apologised for calling the Chinese government "mongrels" who "shoot their own people" after a fierce backlash from Bei...
Chinese media warn US over warplane interception
Aug 25, 2014 (AFP)
China's state-run media warned Washington on Monday that Beijing could treat its surveillance flights as an "act of hostility", after accusations a Chinese figh...
Kiev says captured 10 Russian paratroopers in east Ukraine
Aug 25, 2014 (AFP)
Ukraine's security service on Monday said its military in the war-torn east has captured 10 Russian paratroopers on Ukrainian soil and was questioning them as p...
China executes Tiananmen Square attack leaders
Aug 24, 2014 (AFP)
China has executed eight people for "terrorist attacks," including three it described as "masterminding" a suicide car crash in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 20...
Russian Communist park restored amid wave of nostalgia
Aug 22, 2014 (AFP)
Sliding into shabbiness after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, a giant Moscow complex extolling the days of the old planned economy has been restored amid a ...
China's Xi reassures Mongolia over independence, integrity
Aug 22, 2014 (AFP)
Chinese President Xi Jinping told Mongolia Friday that Beijing respected its independence and integrity as he concluded a visit looking to forge closer ties wit...
China warplane in 'dangerous' intercept with US jet: Pentagon
Aug 22, 2014 (AFP)
A Chinese fighter jet flew perilously close to a US military aircraft this week in a "very dangerous" incident in international air space east of Hainan Island,...
China likens Xi to Deng Xiaoping for anniversary
Aug 21, 2014 (AFP)
China's state propaganda machine is seizing Friday's 110th anniversary of Deng Xiaoping's birth to highlight similarities between President Xi Jinping and the p...
China paper denounces 'rampant rascality' of Australia tycoon
Aug 20, 2014 (AFP)
A Chinese state-run newspaper on Wednesday called on Beijing to "teach Canberra a lesson" after Australian tycoon and politician Clive Palmer labelled the Commu...
Ukraine warplane shot down as clashes kill dozens
Aug 20, 2014 (AFP)
A Ukrainian warplane was blown out of the sky over rebel-held territory Wednesday as fierce clashes between government troops and pro-Russian insurgents left do...
China troops enter disputed India territory: sources
Aug 19, 2014 (AFP)
Chinese troops have advanced in recent days into disputed territory claimed by India, echoing a similar incursion last year that raised tensions between the two...
Pope's message lost on China?
Aug 19, 2014 (AFP)
When Pope Francis sent an unprecedented message to Chinese President Xi Jinping last week, it went missing -- an apparent technical glitch laden with symbolism....
Pope says he wants to visit China
Aug 18, 2014 (AFP)
Pope Francis said Monday that he wants to visit China and called for the Catholic Church in the country to be allowed to do its "job". "You ask me if I want to ...
Philippines protests Chinese patrols over sea bank
Aug 18, 2014 (AFP)
The Philippines said Monday it would protest to China about what it called Beijing's increasing patrols in a disputed area of the South China Sea believed to ho...
Pope pushes dialogue with Asian nations like China
Aug 17, 2014 (AFP)
Pope Francis on Sunday championed a "creative" Catholicism in Asia that reflects the region's diversity, and urged countries like China and North Korea to respo...
Hong Kong legal body votes to oust its pro-Beijing president
Aug 15, 2014 (AFP)
The Hong Kong Law Society has sent a strong rebuke to Beijing after it passed a vote of no confidence in its own president, who backed a controversial white pap...
Tensions soar as Ukraine says destroys Russian armour
Aug 15, 2014 (AFP)
Ukraine said on Friday it had destroyed part of a Russian military convoy that crossed onto its territory in an incursion that has sent cross-border tensions ro...
Enforced silence at China's Cultural Revolution museum
Aug 15, 2014 (AFP)
No signs along the long and dusty mountain road point the way to the Cultural Revolution museum complex. And this year, no commemoration for the millions of vic...
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