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US President Barack Obama is expected to visit Japan, South Korea, the Philippines and Malaysia this month as part of his push to increase US diplomatic, economic and security engagement with countries in the Asia-Pacific region.

Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah speaks during the first session of ASEAN-Japan Commemorative Summit Meeting at the state guest house in Tokyo on December 14, 2013.

Thirty-eight people were hurt when a coach skidded and landed on its side on the shoulder of a road in Kaeng Khoi, Saraburi province, on Tuesday.

People with sleep apnea, a common sleep disorder, may be at increased risk for the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis, especially women and older people, a new study suggests.

SINGAPORE: The two national Continuing Education and Training campuses will be fully operational by the second half of this year, where they will be able to train some 50,000 workers annually.

Foreign tourists stay on Rin beach on Koh Phangan from Monday morning to noon the next day for the full-moon party.

Cambodia earned US$2.5 billion from the tourism sector last year, a senior government official said.

Private Leonard Manning was killed in an ambush in East Timor in July 2000 during service with the New Zealand Army.

While other goods are bracing for lower exports and weakened consumption at home due to the political crisis, Thailand's digital content industry remains intact and on course to strong growth.

The daughter of the pilot killed in what, until Flight 370, was Malaysia's deadliest aviation crash talks to Phil Taylor about living with the disaster.

Democratic Progressive Party Chairman Su Tseng-chang and former Premier Frank Hsieh both announced their withdrawal from the looming chairman elections yesterday, leaving only one candidate in the race.

More than one in three or 37 per cent of foreign domestic workers enjoy a weekly rest day.

More than half of Malaysians believe their government is hiding information about missing Flight MH370, according to survey results released by a news portal on Monday.

Catholic bishops and educators vowed to strengthen the role of the Catholic Church "in the promotion of lasting peace in Mindanao" as they welcomed the March 27 signing of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front both as a source of optimism and as a "greater challenge to ... (more)

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This event ranks as the second largest fastener show in Asia and the third largest in the world.

Twenty-three passengers were injured when a Bangkok-Trang tour bus overturned in Huay Yod district of Trang province on Sunday morning, police said.

A Muslim extremist has been killed in fighting between soldiers and Abu Sayyaf rebels in the southern Philippines, a day after 12 people died in a similar shootout, the military said Sunday.

New coalition deal: Jakarta governor and presidential candidate from the Indonesian Democratic Party-Struggle party, Joko Widodo, and his wife Iriana cast their ballot.

As the band of protesters approached a red stoplight, a cry went up from the priest leading them: "Run! Run! Run!" Father Robert Reyes jogged out into the clogged Manila street, raising his hand to the traffic -- a small act of disobedience in a life punctuated with them.