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Hours before arriving in Beijing today, U.S. President George W. Bush will express his "firm opposition" to human rights violations in China.

South Korea's central bank on Thursday raised its key interest rate for August by 0.25 percentage point in an apparent bid to control spiraling inflation despite the slowing economy, Yonhap News Agency ...

Jay Lefkowitz, the U.S. presidential envoy on North Korean human rights, sought to inspect the complex during a visit to South Korea next week, said Kim Ho-nyeon, a spokesman at the South Korean Unification ...

The mayor of Hiroshima on Wednesday urged the next US president to work to abolish atomic weapons as the city marked the 63rd anniversary of the world's first nuclear attack.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - An Italian who survived an avalanche that killed fellow climbers on the world's second-highest peak said Wednesday poor equipment and a mistake by a porter contributed to the tragedy.

South Korean police used water cannon and arrested 167 people to break up protests against the visit of U.S. President George W. Bush, officers said today.

Aug 5 - A South Korean biotechnology company clones puppies to meet a U.S woman's personal requirements.

On august 4, in the morning, the container with the model designed to test the launching facility and auxiliary equipment was shipped by train from Moscow to Ulyanovsk, informs Gazeta.Ru. From Ulyanovsk, the ...

By Kamran Haider

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Hobbling on frostbitten feet, an Italian climber walked down to K2 base camp on Tuesday after heavy mists ruled out an airlift for the last survivor of the worst disaster on the world's second-highest mountain.

"I'm at base camp. I'm truly happy, to be here finally and to be alive," 37-year-old Italian climber Marco Confortola was quoted as saying after speaking by satellite telephone to the Italian mountaineering website www.montagna.tv.

"I now realize that they're all dead, they're all dead."

Tajikistan News.Net Tuesday 5th August, 2008 Melbourne, Aug 5 : The Hong Kong International Airport was named the world's best for the seventh year in an annual survey of passengers, with Asian airports ...

AN American woman blinked back tears of joy as she cuddled puppies cloned in South Korea from her beloved former pet pit bull terrier.

JENA, Germany - After 47 years of tragic separation, Renate Hong, a German woman who married a North Korean scientist during his study abroad in 1960, has traveled to Pyongyang to realize her lifetime wish for ...

Even as China is being roundly criticized for restricting Internet access even for Western journalists during the Olympics, another Asian country is moving to restrict the net.

A helicopter plucked two frostbitten Dutch climbers from the world's second-highest mountain Monday after an avalanche left at least 11 people missing and believed dead.

The helicopter brought Wilco Van Rooijen and Cas Van de Gevel from K-2's base camp to a military hospital in Skardu, the nearest town, said Maj. Farooq Firoz, an army spokesman.

But stranded Italian climber Marco Confortola, also believed to be suffering frostbite, was struggling down the mountain on Monday, still too high for a helicopter rescue, Firoz said.

Wilco van Rooijen and, inset, Mark Sheen. Wilco was up there three days and three nights, above 8000m, without supplementary oxygen.

South Korean activists said on Monday they planned a large candlelight rally to protest U.S. President George W. Bush's visit on Tuesday and demand the two countries scrap a widely criticized beef import deal.

Stephens Confirmed as New U.S. Envoy to Seoul Kathleen Stephens, the nominee for U.S. ambassador to Korea, answers questions at her confirmation hearing in the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on ...

Thousands And Thousands Of South Koreans Have Protested The Return Of U.S. Beef To Their Country.

At least nine mountaineers have died near the summit of K2 after a huge chunk of ice sheared off the mountain and hit them.

South Korea's Lotte Daesan Petrochemical has started to produce on-spec polypropylene from a new 300,000 mt/year plant at Daesan, which began commissioning two weeks ago, a company source said Tuesday.