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A RELAXING day spa need not be a luxury reserved only for adults. The Maldives Hilton now offers spa treatments for kids and families.

Kenji Fujimoto was accepted into Kim Jong-il's inner circle during a 13-year stint serving North Korea's first family.

Hailing from one of the country's poorest provinces, Wang Yang lacks the revolutionary pedigree of the so-called "princeling" party leaders.

Amy Li began her journalism career as a crime news reporter in Queens, New York, in 2004.

A Chinese aviation industry news website says a man has been arrested for allegedly making fake bomb threats against several domestic flights bound for Shanghai.

Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council responsible for relations with China Thursday urged Beijing to stay out of the row the island has with the Philippines over the shooting death of a Taiwanese fisherman by the Philippine coast guard in the South China Sea.

Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang has called on his nation's tourists to improve their behavior, stressing it was important to project a "good image of Chinese tourists," official state media outlet Xinhua reported .

The company predicted the publicity fueling the revenue collapse would be "relatively short-lived," but bird flu fears aren't the only challenge facing Yum in its biggest overseas market.

Thirty-three people have died and 12 others were reported missing in the latest round of rain- and hailstorms that have swept south China, the country's civil affairs and disaster reduction authorities said Thursday.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday held talks in Cairo with Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi on efforts to achieve unity between Fatah and Hamas and resume peace talks with Israel.

China threatened on Thursday to retaliate if the European Union formally opens an investigation into alleged anti-competitive behavior by Chinese mobile telecom equipment companies.

Near Shenyang, China, smoke and fire rise from a light plane after it failed to take off at Taoxian Airport.

BioDuro opened a new laboratory in Shanghai, China on Wednesday to offer a range of customized biopharma services for its Asia Pacific clients.

A clerk inspects dollar notes at a Bank of China outlet in Nanchong, Sichuan province.

China's communications and broadcast satellite, the SinoSat-2, aboard a Long March-3B carrier rocket is launched successfully from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan province, . The U.S. government believes a Chinese missile launch this week was the first test of a new interceptor that could be used to destroy a ... (more)

Chinese demonstrators shout slogans during a protest against a planned refinery project in downtown Kunming in southwest China's Yunnan province, Thursday, May 16, 2013.

In this Tuesday, May 14, 2013 photo, workers are silhouetted at a construction site of a residential project in Rizhao city in east China's Shandong province.

A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor stealth fighter takes off last summer from Kadena Air Base on the southern island of Okinawa in Japan.

Upset about plans for a petrochemical plant near her hometown in China, a woman turned to a new method that Chinese are using to air their complaints: she posted a petition on the White House's website.

The Civil Aviation Administration said no planes were in actual danger Wednesday but gave no details on the specific threats.