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By MATTHEW PENNINGTON 6 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's nominee to become the next U.S. ambassador to Vietnam said Tuesday it may be time for Washington to consider lifting a ban on the sale and transfer of lethal weapons to the former American enemy. Ted Osius told his...

By Narae Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Park Geun-hye expressed relief on Saturday over remarks by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that his government would adhere to apologies for wartime behavior made by past cabinets, in 1993 and 1995. Ties with South Korea and China...

January 28, 2014 5:28 AM . View photo A Japan Maritime Self-Defense Forces US-2 search-and-rescue amphibian plane, manufactured by ShinMaywa Industries Ltd, is seen in this updated file handout photo released by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Forces and obtained by Reuters on November 4...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan and Russia held their first high-level defense and diplomatic talks Saturday and agreed to step up cooperation between their militaries amid regional security concerns such as North Korea and China. Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and Defense Minister Itsunori...

By NIHARIKA MANDHANA IN NEW DELHI and JOSH CHIN IN BEIJING India aims to strengthen its naval presence and counter an increasingly assertive China with the Vikrant. India launched its first homegrown aircraft carrier on Monday, part of a campaign to strengthen its naval presence in...

YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) -- Japan on Tuesday unveiled its biggest warship since World War II, a huge flat-top destroyer that has raised eyebrows in China and elsewhere because it bears a strong resemblance to a conventional aircraft carrier. The ship, which has a flight deck that is nearly 250...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan scrambled fighter jets on Wednesday after a Chinese military aircraft flew for the first time through international airspace near its southern islands out over the Pacific, in a move seen by Japan as underlining China's maritime expansion. Ties between China and Japan...

TOKYO/BEIJING (Reuters) - Japan has ordered geological survey ships to prepare for possible deployment to the East China Sea after it detected Chinese drilling near the disputed maritime border, a source with direct knowledge of the order told Reuters on Thursday. A plan by Chinese state-run...

Nine young North Korean defectors have been repatriated from Laos after trying to reach South Korea, signaling that the Pyongyang regime is not only cracking down on its citizens who try to escape, but it’s getting cooperation from Laos. Laos, a small, landlocked country squeezed between...

BEIJING (AP) — Gunmen wearing North Korean military uniforms released a Chinese fishing boat after holding its crew for two weeks, beating up the captain and stealing the vessel's fuel, the boat's owner said. He added that the hijackers did not get the 600,000 yuan ($100,000) ransom they had...

Dennis Rodman has some fighting words for President Obama, who he says has failed in his foreign policy toward North Korean and its leader Kim Jong-Un. "We got a black president who can't even go talk to him," Rodman told celebrity website TMZ.com. "How about that one?" Rodman announced his...

Do you guys think Kim Jong Un is actually aware of this?

Gandhinagar, April 23: Close on heels of commencing use of wastelands in northern districts and rooftops in towns and cities, Gujarat is set to potentially use the existing 19,000 km-long network of Narmada canals across the State for setting up solar panels to generate power. The Chief...

In China, public anger over secrecy on environment BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - When China's environment ministry told attorney Dong Zhengwei he couldn't have access to two-year old data about soil pollution because it was a "state secret", it added to mounting public outrage over the worsening...