Japanese shares edged down Friday in lackluster trade as investors turned cautious ahead of U.S. jobs data that’s likely to point to a deepening recession in the...

China has updated an ambitious blueprint to aggressively revamp the country’s key manufacturing region _ a plan that has already helped cause many low-end...

Sri Lankan troops battled to force the Tamil Tigers out of their last remaining strongholds in the north, while the rebels detonated a roadside bomb in the east that...

A record 99 million Japanese visited Shinto shrines or Buddhist temples in the first three days of the New Year, the National Police Agency said Friday.

A drop in oil and fertilizer costs has halved the price of rice _ a staple for almost 700 million of Asia’s poorest _ but it could jump again this year as farmers...

China plans a major revamp of its public hospitals _ criticized for their lack of access, huge fees and poor doctor services _ as part of its long-awaited reform of the...

Oil prices rose to above $42 a barrel Friday in Asia as traders speculated that a second front is opening in Israel’s Gaza offensive, but analysts said gains...

Some 38 people are dead after a fire swept through a group of makeshift dwellings in southern Pakistan.

China has expanded its campaign against pornography and vulgar content online, naming more than a dozen Web sites, including Microsoft’s MSN, that it says need to...

Troubled South Korean automaker Ssangyong Motor says it has applied for court receivership.

China is taking new steps to shore up its aviation industry amid global economic turmoil, giving struggling airlines a $360 million tax break and $26 billion in loans...

South Korea’s central bank cut its key interest rate Friday for the fifth time in just three months to help shore up the country’s sagging economy.

Vice President-elect Joe Biden has met with leaders in Kuwait on his way to southwest Asia.

A panda at the Beijing zoo bit his third tourist in two years _ and this time, his jaws had to forced open to free the man, who jumped in to retrieve his son’s...

An American man wanted in Texas on child sex abuse charges was arrested Thursday in Thailand and could be sent to the U.S. within days, the district attorney’s...

A suicide bomber struck U.S. troops patrolling on foot in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing at least two soldiers and three civilians and wounding at least nine...

A suicide bomber struck U.S. troops patrolling on foot in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing three civilians and wounding at least nine others. The Americans...

Brazil’s stocks are mixed early as investors digest losses in Asia and Europe along with negative domestic news.

The number of Indonesians forced into tent camps by a pair of powerful earthquakes last weekend more than doubled to 17,400 Thursday, an official said.

China and the United States are “increasingly interdependent” following three decades of building close economic and political ties, a senior U.S. diplomat...