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Palestinian officials announced Friday that a new date for parliamentary and presidential elections will be set next month now that President Mahmoud Abbas has agreed to postpone the January vote, though the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers maintain they will boycott the voting.

When China launched a Web site for its defense ministry in August, the whole world took notice.

A prominent mainland Chinese director banned by Beijing from making movies brought his new gay romance film to Hong Kong on Friday for what is likely the last of a handful of screenings on his home soil.

After allegedly stealing trade secrets valued at $32 million and attempting to sell them to Chinese competitors, Xiang Dong Yu was arraigned today in a US District Court.

The 11th China International Travel Mart has opened in the southwestern city of Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province.

Mukesh Ambani has emerged the wealthiest person in India with a net worth of $32 billion, as the number of Indian billionaires in Forbes' 'India Rich List' this year has nearly doubled to 52, thanks to the rebound in stock markets.

An exiled former leader of the 1989 student pro-democracy movement went on trial in southwestern China on Thursday on financial fraud charges after being extradited from Hong Kong, a human rights group reported.

Sometime into his long detention by China's feared state security agents, American geologist Xue Feng had something to show U.S. consular officials on their monthly visit.

In this May 13, 2009 file photo, a security guard wears a protective mask as a precaution against swine flu, cordons the entrance of a the Home Inn Hotel, where China's second confirmed swine flu patient is believed to have been lodged in Beijing, China.

AUSTRALIAN regulators have approved a Chinese state-owned company's $40 million stake deal in a South Australian magnetite joint venture.

Indian troops stand guard near the Line of Control, the de facto India-Pakistan border earlier this year.

CHINA'S last surviving veteran from the D-Day landings of Allied troops in northern France has died at the age of 91, state media reported today.

A 2-year-old panda who charmed his way into the hearts of Austrians is headed to China.

Looking for a new project after finishing a comedy, Zhang Yimou is considering adaptations of novels set against China's Cultural Revolution and the Japanese invasion in World War II, his assistant said Wednesday.

U.S. President Barack Obama, left, walks with Chinese President Hu Jintao during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Nov 17, 2009.

ABOUT 200 police officers are combing a mountainous area in central China's Hunan Province for a prisoner who tunneled out of a local jail.

Pollution typically declines during a recession. Not this time. Despite a global economic slump, worldwide carbon dioxide pollution jumped 2 percent last year, most of the increase coming from China, according to a study published online Tuesday.

China and the United States on Tuesday pledged to strengthen bilateral ties and expand cooperation on key global issues in a joint statement issued after talks between Chinese President Hu Jintao and visiting U.S. President Barack Obama.

An investor reacts as he looks at a stock price monitor at a private securities company in Shanghai, China.

The story of a Chinese Communist Party official who moves to a community of boat people after his revolutionary lineage is refuted has won the Man Asian Literary Prize, organizers said.