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A team of South Koreans Monday began a 230 kilometre (144 mile) relay swim from an eastern port to the Dokdo islands, ...

South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak landed Friday on remote islands disputed with Japan, according to Japanese news ...

Suspected Kurdish militants attacked a Turkish military bus on its way to a naval base in the western province of ...

North Korea's young first lady has been pictured sporting what appears to be a Christian Dior handbag, in stark ...

PT Len Industri said it is building a solar cell factory in Karawang, West Java, to cost around US$46 million ...

Hamas` leader in the Gaza Strip, Ismail Haniya, on Monday accused Israel of carrying out a weekend raid on an Egyptian ...

A blast ripped through the capital of Russia`s volatile Chechnya region on Monday, killing at least four interior ...

The prime suspect in the killing of an Indonesian citizen whose body was found in an oil palm plantation ditch at ...

Publicly traded cement producer PT Semen Gresik Tbk (SMGR) reported a 13.83 percent rise in income to Rp8.657 ...

Floods triggered by recent downpours have left 88 people dead, 134 injured and more than 62,900 homeless in the ...

Failure in contract renegotiation between the Indonesian government and PT Freeport reflects arrogance of the US gold ...

Hundreds of protestors stormed into streets in Saudi Arabia`s eastern region on Friday, staging a demonstration which ...

Algeria on Monday rejected an Arab League call for Syria`s President Bashar al-Assad to step down, saying that was a ...

Former finance minister Pranab Mukherjee was elected Indian president on Sunday after votes from national and state ...

Prime Minister Najib Razak said Malaysia will immediately evacuate its nationals from strife-torn Syria and shut its ...