Cyclonic storm Mahasen claims four lives in Bangladesh

Mahasen\'s current velocity was lowered to 25 kilometre per hour as against the initial wind speed of up to 90 kilometre per hour. Pres...

Cyclonic storm 'Mahasen' hits Bangladesh coastlines

  It said the storm was centered at 9 A.M. about 270 kms southwest of Chittagong Port, 225 kms southwest of Cox's Bazar Port and 210 km...

Cyclone Mahasen Batters Bangladesh; 1 Million Flee

By FARID HOSSAIN Associated Press COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh May 16, 2013 (AP) Cyclone Mahasen struck the southern coast of Bangladesh on T...

Cyclone Mahasen strikes southern Bangladesh

Thousands have moved to shelters in Bangladesh but in Burma, authorities have encountered a deep reluctance to move among Rohingya refugees...

Man Sues Chinese Hospital Over Forced Psychiatric Admission

A file photo of a patient at a psychiatric hospital in Fuzhou receiving a blood transfusion with bound feet. AFP Photo A resident of the so...

China Sends Aid to North Korea Despite Sanctions

An undated picture released by the Korean Central News Agency on April 24, 2013 shows Prime Minister Pak Pong Ju (C) inspecting a farm in S...

How Cyclone Mahasen will affect India

A boy stands outside an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp for Muslims, outside Sittwe. Photo: Reuters Northeast India to get rain; co...

Seven shot dead over Myanmar bomb plot in Indonesia

VIDEO: Myanmar embassy plot foiled in Jakarta From: AFP INDONESIAN police have shot dead seven terror suspects in raids over the past two da...

Vietnamese Activists Form 'Brotherhood for Democracy'

A man reads news on his laptop at a coffee shop in Hanoi, Jan. 15, 2013. AFP A group of mostly former jailed dissidents in Vietnam have set...

Phnom Penh Governor to Re-Examine Land Disputes

Boeung Kak and Borei Keila activists holding posters of Yorm Bopha demonstrate outside the South Korean Embassy in Phnom Penh, May 8, 2013....

Call to Postpone Cambodia’s Elections

Sam Rainsy (R) addresses a roundtable in Washington, May 8, 2013. RFA Cambodia’s main opposition leader Sam Rainsy asked the authorities Wed...

Indonesia raids suspects wanted in embassy plot

A member of the anti-terror police takes position outside a house in the village of Batu Rengat, where police exchanged fire with suspects, ...

Illegal trade in North Korean Homes Flourish

This photo released by the Korean Central News Agency on June 1, 2012 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (C) visiting an apartment build...

Official Children Get Crop of Chinese Graduate Jobs

Job seekers crowd stalls at a job fair in Shanghai, March 23, 2013. ImagineChina Amid a hostile job market for fresh Chinese graduates, the...

China Hits Back at Magazine Over Labor Camp Expose

A file photo of inmates at a women's labor camp in Zhengzhou, Henan province. EyePress News Authorities in the Chinese capital have hal...

Chinese Mines Pollute Tibet's Rivers, Streams

Rescuers search for workers buried after a landslide at Gyama mine in Tibet’s Maldro Gongkar county, March 30, 2013. Imaginechina By Richar...

Indonesia says two arrested for Myanmar Embassy plot

Members of a hardline group burn a Myanmar flag during a protest oustide the Myanmar embassy in Jakarta on Friday. (AFP) THE ASSOCIATED PRES...

Fears Grow in China Over Bottled Mineral Water

A woman buys bottled water at a store in Shanghai, Jan. 28, 2013. ImagineChina As quality and pollution issues with China's supply of dr...

Chengdu Activists Held Ahead of Chemical Plant Protest

A woman wears a mask with the slogan "No PX" written on it at an Oct. 28, 2012 protest against a paraxylene plant eastern China...

Former Defectors Work for Change in North Korea

Jo Jin Hye enters a building at Annandale High School in Virginia where she attends night high school for adults. Photo courtesy of Grace Jo...