A Chinese Islamic faction that has threatened to attack the Olympics released a new video warning Muslims to stay away from the Beijing games and avoid buses, trains,...

An Islamic group that has threatened to attack the Summer Games released a new video claiming the communist regime’s alleged mistreatment of Muslims justifies...

A U.S. group that monitors militant organizations says a Chinese Islamic faction has released a new video claiming the communist regime’s alleged mistreatment of...

President Bush’s Olympic odyssey started with a game of political one-upmanship Thursday, as his blunt critique of the host country prompted China to warn the...

Toyota said Thursday that its fiscal first-quarter profit plummeted 28 percent and stuck to its forecast that full-year profit with fall for the first time in seven...

A U.S. group that monitors extremist messages says that a Chinese Islamic group has released a new video that shows a burning Olympics logo and an explosion over a...

A U.S. group that monitors extremist Web sites says that a Chinese Islamic group has posted a new video that shows a burning Olympics logo and an explosion over a venue...

An American nuclear-powered submarine leaked radiation for more than two years and may have affected three Japanese ports where it stopped more extensively than...

Lenovo Group Ltd., the world’s fourth-largest PC maker, said Thursday its quarterly profit rose 65 percent as strong sales in China and emerging economies offset...

Pakistan’s ruling coalition has announced it will seek the impeachment of President Pervez Musharraf.

President Bush has arrived in Beijing for the Summer Olympics amid tensions with the Chinese over his demand that the rising world power grant more freedom to its...

Pakistan’s ruling coalition will ask President Pervez Musharraf to seek a confidence vote in Parliament or face impeachment, senior party officials told The...

Text of a statement by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang in response to President Bush’s speech, posted on the ministry’s Web site Thursday and...

Police investigations of marijuana use have surged this year in Japan, the result in part of the easy availability of seeds on the Internet for home cultivation,...

Japan accepted more than 200 Indonesian nurses into the country on Thursday, an unprecedented move as Tokyo struggles to quell a labor shortage triggered by sinking...

Maldives President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom signed and adopted a new constitution Thursday that allows multiparty elections and other democratic reforms after decades of...

China has issued new controls on transfers of foreign currencies, moving to contain inflationary pressures by curbing the speculative inflows, or so-called hot money,...

Japan painted a darker picture of its economic health Thursday, warning of deteriorating exports, output and corporate profits _ signals that may point toward a...

A strong earthquake rattled Indonesia’s eastern Sumbawa island early Thursday, damaging around 1,200 buildings and injuring at least five people, officials said.

Senior party officials tell The Associated Press that Pakistan’s ruling coalition will ask President Pervez Musharraf to seek a confidence vote in Parliament or...