Close to 2500 activists donning pink rallied for gay rights on Saturday in nanny-state Singapore, just one week after the government rescinded an NGO sex education program.

US President Barack Obama has nominated a Republican governor of Utah with strong ties to China as ambassador, signaling the importance of improving relations with China above bipartisan politics. Jon Huntsman Jr. is known to be an advocate of strong trade relations with China, and has talked about the need ...

The memoir of a former head of the Chinese Communist Party who spoke out against 1989 brutality in Tiananmen, entitled 'Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Zhao Ziyang', will be released next week, four years after his death.

Tens of thousands took to the streets in Taiwan, protesting President Ma Ying-jeou's recent trade initiatives they see as too China-friendly. They held placards that said "Say No to China! Say Yes to Taiwan", and voiced their concerns that recent rounds of trade talks with China will compromise Taiwanese sovereignty.

Last weekend a showdown within Singaporean women's rights NGO, Aware, exposed rifts in the typically apathetic society. The outcome was mixed; the old Aware liberal guard was successfully restored, but the NGO's sex education programs were rescinded this week. The issues at hand were homosexuality, which Singapore does not acknowledge ...

New rifts in Malaysia's political system were exposed this week, three months after Malaysia's opposition party lost its majority standing in Perak state to the National Front coalition. Parliament recommenced for the first time since the staged take-over, with the former speaker of assembly physically removed from the building ...

The IMF slashed its growth outlook for Asia from last year's 2.7 percent to a new 1.3 percent, saying chances for immediate economic rebound are "weak".

Economic woes have caused a Maoist revival for little red books and iron rice bowl jobs.

Cutting back on greenhouse gases doesn’t have to mean limiting China’s economic development, says a report submitted to Chinese officials this week.

Foreign investment into Vietnam could move to other countries as the number of overseas anti-dumping lawsuits rack up against the country.