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Movie review: 'Bhutto'
Benazir Bhutto had a life that makes fiction pale by comparison. When writer Tariq Ali says, characterizing the tale of her charismatic...
Japan blazes a trail for living with stagnation and deflation
With some U.S. economists now predicting years of slow growth, stagnant salaries and even deflation, ordinary Americans may furrow their...
In Myanmar, house arrest looks good
In the decaying lakeside mansion where Aung San Suu Kyi spent much of the last two decades under house arrest, the Myanmar opposition leader...
Afghan minority's election victories likely to stir anger
In a move likely to anger members of Afghanistan's largest ethnic group, the Pashtuns, election officials Wednesday upheld a sweep by a...
South Korean conglomerates act as though they are above the law
Yoo Hong-joon says he knows the wrath of the rich and powerful in a nation dominated by family-owned firms known as chaebols.
Cables reveal doubts about Pakistani nuclear security
Leaked classified U.S. diplomatic documents reveal strong doubts that Pakistan can keep nuclear fuel and expertise out of the hands of...
South Korea postpones drills on contested island
SEOUL — South Korea postponed artillery drills planned Tuesday on the Yellow Sea island shelled last week by North Korea,...
China seeks emergency meeting on Koreas
China called Sunday for an emergency international meeting to ease tensions on the Korean peninsula, but the United States and South Korea,...
Justice tough to find for Chinese who got HIV/AIDS through tainted blood
It was just a small bump on the head, the result of one boy pushing another against a desk. It was such an unremarkable occurrence in a...
U.S., South Korea begin war games
Emotions remained raw throughout the Korean peninsula Sunday as a U.S. aircraft carrier group arrived for joint American-South Korean...
North Korea's artillery, rhetoric keep tensions high
The distant rumble of artillery practice in North Korea sent shell-shocked residents of Yeonpyeong Island scurrying to their bomb shelters...
South Korea defense minister ousted; North warns of new attacks
South Korea's disgraced defense minister resigned Thursday amid growing criticism in the wake of a deadly North Korean artillery barrage,...
Yeonpyeong Island a Korean peninsula hot spot
This week's North Korean artillery attack wasn't the first time isolated Yeonpyeong Island has been center stage in the Korean peninsula's...
China is loath to condemn North Korea
The Obama administration on Wednesday urged China to use its influence with largely isolated North Korea to help control tensions in the...
'Final' Afghan election results announced
Afghanistan's main electoral body Wednesday released what were billed as the final results of September's trouble-plagued parliamentary...
Huang Hua dies at 97; former Mao translator, diplomat
Huang Hua, a former translator for Mao Tse-tung who oversaw China's formation of diplomatic ties with the United States in 1979, died...
U.S. scrambles to limit Korea hostilities
As Seoul threatened retaliation for North Korea's deadly shelling of a South Korean island, U.S. officials scrambled Tuesday to avert any...
China, in a turnaround, launches a drive to build low-income housing
Like millions of Chinese priced out of this nation's booming housing market, Lao Yang could only dream of owning an apartment.
Senior Taliban leader was a fake, officials say
If it sounded too good to be true, that's because it apparently was. Afghan officials and Western diplomats acknowledged Tuesday that a...
Chalmers Johnson, influential scholar of East Asia, dies at 79
Chalmers Johnson, an influential scholar of East Asia's political economy whose seminal writings forced a reevaluation of both the Chinese...
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