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TAIWAN'S former president Chen Shui-bian plans to sue a man who allegedly kicked him as he entered a courthouse to defend himself in a defamation case, his office said on Tuesday.

MUCH has been said and written about the plight of Tamil schools in the country, often said to be treated as the step- child or, as an educationist puts it, "the Cinderella of the Malaysian educational system". ...

PETALING JAYA: Sarawak plans to build 12 hydroelectric dams to meet its future industrialisation needs.

In contrast, Malaysian inflation far outstripped market forecasts, fanning expectations the central bank will raise interest rates for the first time in more than two years when it meets on Friday.

To increase ability to meet demand for AKT flat panel display equipment and SunFab Thin Film Solar manufacturing equipment TAINAN, TAIWAN: Applied Materials held a groundbreaking for an expansion project of its ...

TRADE between China's mainland and its Hong Kong Special Administrative Region reached US$97 billion in the first half of 2008, up 8 percent year-on-year, statistics from the Ministry of Commerce showed ...

DONGSHA, Taiwan - Concrete pilings designed to prevent an invasion no longer dot this tiny Taiwanese islet's shoreline.

MANILA, Philippines : Communist rebels attacked a banana farm associated with Dole Foods Co.

Mr Anwar is leading a loose alliance of three opposition parties to try to seize power from the government by mid-September. -- PHOTO: AP US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday Washington would ...

The executions of three death-row Bali bombers could trigger some mob violence but a revenge terrorist attack seems unlikely, a terrorism expert says.

SURVIVORS of Burma's cyclone Nargis face a "second emergency" unless $US1 billion in international aid is provided over the next three years, according to the first full assessment of the disaster.

Indonesia's shadow puppetry performances are steeped in tradition but one artist from the country's cultural heartland is giving this ancient art a modern makeover by translating it in English.

Wed, Jul 23, 2008 President Bush is committed to an $11 billion arms package for Taiwan, former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz said Wednesday, amid reports that the U.S. is freezing such sales to ...

Typhoon Kalmaegi has killed 19 people and injured another eight, while six remain missing after the typhoon started lashing Taiwan last Thursday, an official from the island's fire agency said yesterday .

Cambodia has entered the final week of its national election campaign shocked by the murder of a well-known journalist and facing an increasingly tense standoff with Thailand over a disputed 11th century Hindu ...

By James Regan

SYDNEY (Reuters) - An armed gang attacked and set fire to a mine exploration rig at the giant Philippines Tampakan copper and gold prospect held jointly by Xstrata Copper and Australia-listed Indophil Resources NL, Indophil said on Monday.

The attack at one of the world's largest untapped copper deposits happened late on Saturday, Indophil said, adding that no one was injured. It was the latest in a series of attacks on big businesses in the southern Philippines.

"Local media reports a regional military commander as saying that 12 hours after the incident at the drill rig, two soldiers were wounded in a clash with a group believed to be responsible for the attack on the drill rig," the company added. The Tampakan project is held 62.5 percent by Xstrata Copper, 34.23 percent by Indophil and the rest by Philippine interests.

Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong inaugurates the Studies Center of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations during the opening ceremony for the 41st ASEAN Ministerial Meeting in Singapore July 21, ...

Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou's popularity rating has fallen by 43 percentage points to the public's discontent with his handling of domestic and international issues, a newspaper said on Sunday.

A budget airline that operated a jet which crashed in Thailand last year killing 90 people has been grounded and will face criminal charges, the Department of Civil Aviation head said Monday.

'If we are to offer a same level of social subsidies as in the Nordic countries, we will have to raise our taxes very significantly,' said Mr Wong .