Tokyo/Mazda Motor Corp and other business partners plan to buy back a 20-percent stake of the Japanese automaker from Ford Motor Co Wednesday, the automakers said...

Beijing, Nov 18 (Xinhua) Yet another vessel, a Hong Kong cargo ship, was hijacked by pirates in the Gulf of Aden near the Yemen coast Tuesday, the maritime search and rescue centre of China said...

Thirteen Muslim separatist rebels were killed Tuesday in clashes in the southern Philippines, the military...

Tokyo, Nov 18 (Xinhua) Tokyo stocks closed lower Tuesday with the key Nikkei index dropping 2.28 percent amid investors' anxieties about the ongoing global economic...

An ethnic Indian businessman has announced his candidature for the deputy president's post in the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC), saying the organisation that represents the two million-plus community in the country needs 'fresh...

Jiaxian (China), Nov 18 (Xinhua) Rescuers pulled 32 of the 34 trapped miners out of a flooded coal mine in central China's Henan province early Tuesday, 23 hours after the accident...

Foshan (China), Nov 18 (Xinhua) Thousands of workers in south China's Guangdong Real Faith Enterprises Group Co. have been living a more relaxed life lately, working strictly 40 hours a...

Banking giant HSBC axed 450 jobs in Hong Kong Monday because of the impact of the global financial crisis, a government-run radio station...

New Delhi/Mumbai, Nov 18 (ANI/Business Wire India): ESPN STAR Sports (ESS), Asia's leading Sports Broadcaster, has been appointed the preferred bidder as the long-term global television production partner for the Champions League 2020 tournament by Champions League 2020....

New Delhi, Nov 18 : The Ministry of Rural Development will organise a third South Asian Conference on Sanitation (SACOSAN-III) here...

Dhaka, Nov 18 (Xinhua) The European Union (EU) will send an observation mission for the parliamentary elections in Bangladesh scheduled Dec 18, private UNB news agency reported...

Seoul: Asia will take a substantial hit from slowing demand for its exports as the global downturn unfolds but will remain the world's most economically-dynamic region, an Asian Development Bank...

TOKYO (AP) -- The knuckleball - the fluttering, hard-to-hit pitch that's rare in the major leagues - is propelling a 16-year-old girl to the pros in...

Police raids on several hundred buildings in the United Kingdom have recovered dozens of sex trafficking victims, mostly from East and South-East Asia, and led to legal charges against dozens of...

By Chris Oliver Asian markets fell on Tuesday, as banks and real-estate shares in China and Hong Kong fell on concern that economic growth may be even slower than currently expected and as...

WASHINGTON: The US military has launched a coordinated operation with Pakistani forces to put pressure on insurgents on both sides of Afghanistan's wild eastern frontier, a US military commander...

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's top Islamic advisory body has urged the government to amend divorce laws to give more say to women, triggering a controversy with religious hardliners vowing to resist the ...

WASHINGTON: The US administration found itself in an awkward position after Afghanistan's offer of peace talks with Mullah Mohammad Omar, the fugitive Taliban leader long seen by Washington as an ...

More than 7,000 live monitor lizards, almost 900 owls—plucked and plastic wrapped for easy cooking—and other wild animals were seized in two raids in a single week...

WASHINGTON: Primary care doctors in the US feel overworked and nearly half plan to either cut back on how many patients they see or quit medicine entirely, according to a survey released on...

United Nations, 19 November, (Asiantribune.com): Despite significant progress Asia and the Pacific has made in utilizing information and communication technology (ICT), such as with the rapid growth...

KATHMANDU: Close on the heels of an international furore over California's decision to ban same-sex marriages, the apex court of Nepal has given its nod to such ...

Dubai: Dubai International Film Festival on December 11-18 has announced its lineup for Indian and Asia-Africa segments. The Indian Cinema segment will include Kanchivaram set in the 1940s, telling...

International Criminal Police Organization recently confiscated $6.65 million worth of counterfeit HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis drugs in Southeast Asia and made 27 arrests as part of a...

BEIJING: A high-ranking Chinese military official has hinted that China's fast-growing navy is seeking to acquire an aircraft carrier, a move that would surely stoke tensions with the US military...

In a mountainous kingdom in what is now southeastern Turkey, there lived in the eighth century BC a royal official, Kuttamuwa, who oversaw the completion of an inscribed stone monument, or stele,...

SEOUL: To conservative critics, a widely used textbook's version of how US and Soviet forces took control of Korea from Japanese colonialists in 1945 shows all that is wrong with the way South...

would bring to three the number of airlines eligible for cash injections underscored the difficulties mainland firms were facing. Tokyo's Nikkei 225 index ended down 2.3% at 8,328.41. South...

Daewoo Logistics of South Korea has secured farmland in Madagascar to grow food crops for Seoul, in a deal that diplomats and consultants said was the largest of its kind. The company said it had...

Indonesia, the world’s largest palm oil producer and emitter of greenhouse gases through deforestation, on Tuesday dealt a blow to hopes it would step up efforts to combat climate change.Anton...

A South Korean woman walks past an advertisement for the Diamond Mountain resort in North Korea, at the headquarters of Hyundai Asan, which operates the resort as a tourist enclave inside the...

TOKYO : The volatile stock market and a strong yen may be hurting Japanese companies which are largely export-driven. But there are some businesses trying to take advantage of the strong Japanese...

BEIJING: Chinese leaders are again facing the wrath of small land owners even after they passed a new property law and cracked the whip on speculators to tackle the widespread resentment over land...

TOKYO (AP) -- Japanese police posted guards at the homes of former health ministry bureaucrats Tuesday after attacks on the families of ex-officials left two people dead and another wounded, reports...

The government of the western Indian state of Maharashtra has asked businesses to give preference to "locals" when recruiting staff. It says that priority for jobs should be given to anyone who has...

MACAU, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The GSMA, the global trade group for the mobile industry, tonight announced the winners of the Asia Mobile Awards 2008 in a glittering ceremony at the Mobile Asia...

PRAGUE: The Czech Republic has suspended the issuing of new visas for Vietnamese until the end of the year because of criminality in the Vietnamese community, a newspaper reported. While the...

LONDON: Eight of Britain's fattest pets are set to embark on a 100-day diet and fitness regime in a bid to be crowned this year's pet fit club champion. The seven dogs and one cat, who are all...

Christmas has come early to Australian sailors after the country’s navy ordered an extended two-month holiday in response to staff shortages and a drive to attract and retain sailors with a better...

The mood during the panel hearings at the World Economic Forum this week in New Delhi was complacent, even self-congratulatory.India would duck the worst of the global financial crisis, many of the...

India’s property and IT chiefs see severe slowdown By James Lamont, Joe Leahy and Amy Kazmin in New Delhi Published: November 18 2008 15:31 | Last updated: November 18 2008...

Asian stock markets slid this morning in the wake of Citigroup’s announcement that it will cut up to 52 thousand jobs and experts forecasts of at least one more year of financial woes.Despite...

SHANGHAI, China (AP) -- A Chinese migrant worker faces a possible death sentence after he said he stabbed a Canadian model to death in her Shanghai apartment building, his lawyer confirmed...

MOSCOW: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will in December repeat his presidential custom of holding a live nationwide phone-in, an official said on Tuesday, reinforcing his image as Russia's true ...

By Ashok Sharma Dharmsala, India - The prime minister of Tibet's exiled government said on Tuesday that leaders would push for Tibetan independence if a key meeting of exiles this week decides to...

HANOI, Nov. 18 (Xinhua) -- Southeast Asia's largest glass exhibition, Glasstech Asia 2008, will open in Vietnam's southern Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday, Vietnam News Agency reported on Tuesday. The...

WASHINGTON: The US administration found itself in an awkward position after Afghanistan's offer of peace talks with Mullah Mohammad Omar, the fugitive Taliban leader long seen by Washington as an...

HONG KONG (AP) -- HSBC Holdings PLC, Europe's largest bank by market value, plans to cut 500 jobs in Asia due to the global economic slump.The cuts will be made in various parts of the business,...

Japan appears likely to approve the importation of a consignment of whalemeat from Iceland and Norway. A senior official from Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry told BBC News that an...