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Other countries in the Asia-Pacific region may soon offer ships to support Manila in the standoff, now more than a month old, over Scarborough Shoal, known as Huangyan Island in A 1000-ton Japanese coast guard cutter, of the Shiretoko-class. The ship may soon find a new mission, serving to defend the Philippines.

A 19-year-old Florida State senior participating in the university's international program in China has died after a fall from a residence hall.

A picture illustration shows Japanese 10,000 yen notes featuring a portrait of Yukichi Fukuzawa, the founding father of modern Japan, taken in Tokyo Aug.

A three-year-old was rescued by a police officer after riding his toy motorbike down a bustling road in China during rush hour.

HIGH TIMES: Huili local officials float above a highway project in China's Sichuan province under the guise of 'inspecting' last year For the second year in a row, the unofficial award goes to China after news that it was once again guilty of badly photoshopping an official photo.

PetroChina Ramps Up Central Asian Gas Imports PetroChina Co , the nation's biggest oil and gas explorer, plans to import 23 billion to 25 billion m3 of natural gas from Central Asia this year and to import 30 billion m3 from the region next year, chairman Jiang Jiemin said.

Top Four Lender Chilled by Loans, Deposits China's biggest four state-backed banks extended just 34 billion in loans in the first three weeks of May, when deposits with them shrank 270 billion, a person with knowledge of the issue told the 21st Century Business Herald.

May 23 Google Inc's Android operating system runs two-thirds of the smartphones sold in China, according to Bloomberg.

In this Sunday, May 20, 2012 photo, a China Eastern airline jet is partially blurred by the heated air emitted from another jet at Hongqiao Airport in Shanghai, China.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will visit China in June for a security summit and discuss his country's disputed nuclear programme with Chinese President Hu Jintao.

Glyn Davies, US special envoy for Democratic People's Republic of Korea policy, emphasized a need for sanctions against the DPRK during meetings with Chinese officials on Tuesday.

With the last subject of basic skills of field survival training accomplished, the 6-day-long in-camp mixed-force simultaneous training phase of the China-Thailand marine corps joint training, codenamed "Blue Assault-2012", was successfully concluded on May 18, 2012.

An elderly man defending his home from a demolition crew and a demolition crew member were killed as local authorities carried out an "urban cleanup" operation in northeast China.

BEIJING China should further loosen its monetary policy by cutting the lending rates and reserve requirement ratio for banks this year to boost economic growth, a government researcher said Tuesday.When China's consumer price index is lower than 3%, China should cut both deposit and lending rates, said Chen Dongqi, vice director of the academy of ... (more)

In this Saturday, May 12, 2012 file photo, Chinese police officers attempt to stop Chinese protesters outside the Philippines embassy in Beijing, China.

Named for the crash site of an airforce plane shot down during the Six Day War in 1967, Givat HaMatos may yet prove the place where Palestinian hopes of a creating a capital in Jerusalem also plunge to earth.

World stock markets rose Tuesday, perked by hopes that Europe and China will take steps to boost flagging economic growth.

The growth of combined revenue of China's publicly traded property developers has slowed from 78% to 58% and just 2.5% in revenues over the past three years.

Tudou Stems Losses in Q1 Tudou Holdings Ltd , China's second biggest video site, posted 140.3 million in revenues and 134.5 million in net losses for Q1 2012.

The fire retardant industry engaged in a decades-long deception about its products, which are often filled with cancerous materials, the Chicago Tribune reports.