The ruling party of PM Naoto Kan has lost control of the upper house of parliament in Sunday's election, media forecasts say.

Officials evacuated more than 4,200 people in eastern China when levees broke during torrential rains, state media reported.

Officials seek ways to double the number of tigers in the world, at an international forum in Bali, Indonesia.

At least 15 people were killed and 13 others wounded Thursday when a suicide bomber attacked a hotel basement in central Afghanistan, the provincial police chief said...

Shares in the troubled carrier Japan Airlines continue to fall on mounting speculation that it will file for bankruptcy...

After months of diplomatic tension, New Zealand and Fiji are making efforts to improve bilateral ties...

More than 24 million Chinese men could find themselves without spouses in 2020 as gender imbalance grows...

Three churches in Malaysia are attacked as a row over non-Muslims' use of the word Allah intensifies...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's new finance minister, Naoto Kan, said he wanted the yen to weaken more and would work with the Bank of Japan to bring the currency to an appropriate level given its impact on the economy...

The US approves the sale of air defence missiles to Taiwan despite opposition to the deal from China and increasing US-China trade friction...

SYDNEY (AFP) - A space-age powerboat sent to harass Japanese whalers was rammed and sliced in two in its very first clash on Wednesday, activists said, dramatically escalating hostilities in icy Antarctic seas...

Datu Unsay Mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr.pleads not guilty to dozens of murder charges filled against him in connection with a November massacre in Maguindanao province...

TOKYO (AFP) - Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama pledged Monday to pursue more equal relations with the United States as Tokyo seeks to defuse a row with its close ally over where to move an American military base...

More than 700 people are battling to contain a massive diesel spill in China...

The U. S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, warned Thursday of a possible attack in Bali on New Year's Eve...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Four foreigners may face execution in China over a big seizure of heroin, a Hong Kong newspaper reported on Thursday, after China and Britain clashed over the execution of a Briton found guilty of drug smuggling...

A judge tells Chinese novelist Mian Mian, who is suing Google over its plan to create an online library, to hold settlement talks...

TOKYO (AFP) - Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama apologised Thursday over a growing political funding scandal, but said he would fight on despite the blow to his three-month-old government...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has issued new Internet regulations, including what appears to be an effort to create a "whitelist" of approved websites that could potentially place much of the Internet off-limits to Chinese readers...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China will treat talks on a binding global climate change pact in 2010 as a struggle over the "right to develop," a Chinese official said, signaling more tough deal-making will follow the Copenhagen summit...