Asia Pacific
UN experts 95% certain humans causing climate change
International scientists are 95 percent sure human activities are the main cause of global warming, an U.N. report to be released Friday ...World Bank approves $140 million for Myanmar electricity
The World Bank said on Tuesday that it will extend a US$140 million interest-free loan to Myanmar to refurbish a power station ...UN holds first high-level meeting on the disabled
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened a historic U.N. meeting of world leaders Monday "to break barriers and open doors" for the more than ...25 dead as Typhoon Usagi hits southern China
At least 25 people in southern China have been killed in what has been described as the most powerful storm on earth ...China sentences Bo Xilai to life in prison for corruption
A Chinese court sentenced Bo Xilai to life in prison on Sunday after finding the once powerful Communist Party insider guilty of ...Super typhoon Usagi threatens Taiwan, Northern Philippines, China
The Philippines, Taiwan and southern China are preparing for the arrival of a rapidly intensifying super typhoon.Woman survives 15 days trapped in well in China
A Chinese woman has been found alive after becoming trapped at the bottom of an abandoned well for 15 days, living off ...South Korean troops shoot, kill man trying to cross to North Korea
A South Korean man who was shot dead while trying to swim across a border river had sought refugee protection in Japan ...Miss World organiser lashes out at government
The billionaire media mogul who brought Miss World to Indonesia lashed out at the government on Monday for bowing to Muslim hardline ...Japan launches “Epsilon” rocket from Kagoshima
Japan\'s new solid-fuel rocket blasted off on Saturday carrying a telescope for remote observation of planets in a launch coordinated from a ...