Southeast Asia News

Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived here on Wednesday for a state visit and the Economic Leaders Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation , scheduled for Saturday and Sunday.

The mainland is ready to sign a memorandum of understanding on financial supervision with Taiwan, said a government official in Beijing Wednesday.

Revelations that Taiwanese Premier Wu Den-yih traveled abroad with a former gangster have excited great interest among this island's sensation-seeking media, but left few of its 23 million people gaping in surprise.

Heavy rain in southern India triggered flash floods and landslides that killed 45 people in the last 24 hours and left about 1,000 tourists stranded, police said Tuesday.

President Barack Obama leaves on Thursday on his first Asian trip since becoming president on January 20.

The Kuomintang honorary chairman Wu Poh-hsiung Monday said the peaceful cross-Straits development was the "right path", while meeting here with Liang Baohua, secretary of Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China .

BEHIND BARS: Schapelle Corby is serving a 20-year sentence in Bali's Kerobokan Prison for smuggling 4.1kg of cannabis into Indonesia inside a bodyboard bag in October 2004.

It's been called A Place to Enjoy Coffee, and the less charitable Aging Politicians Enjoying Cocktails.

PUTRAJAYA: The ministries must take pro-active action to maximise the use of information communication technology in the delivery of public services because it can improve the quality of life of the people and the image of the government, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said today.

MYANMAR'S detained opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, expressed hope on Monday that US engagement with the county's military rulers could spur democratic reforms, her lawyer said.

Polls show about half the population thinks Kevin Rudd is doing a bad job managing asylum seekers.

Nothing like a little time apart to rekindle the affections that could lead to a baby panda.

Cassava farmers sort their crop at a farm in Battambang province, which borders Thailand.

MANILA, Philippines - Suspected al-Qaida-linked militants in the southern Philippines beheaded a schoolteacher after kidnapping him last month, officials said Monday.

A STRONG quake with a magnitude of 6.7 and a relatively shallow depth hit the Indonesian island of Sumbawa today, officials said, with initial reports saying some buildings were damaged.

APPLICATIONS for the 2010 Lee Kuan Yew Scholarship, the postgraduate equivalent of the President's Scholarship, are now open.

Sydney, Nov 8 : Releasing Tamils from camps and reintegrating them into Sri Lankan society would help staunch the flow of asylum seekers crossing the Indian Ocean, Australia Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said Sunday.

Nothing like a little time apart to rekindle the affections that could lead to a baby panda.

President Barack Obama and other Asia-Pacific leaders, meeting at a summit this week, will push for a new global strategy to reduce the crippling imbalances in the world economy blamed for the severe financial crisis.

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama speaks alongside Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, Laotian Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh, Myanmar Prime Minister Thein Sein, Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, during a joint news conference following the Mekong-Japan Summit Meeting at Hatoyama's official ...