As tens of thousands of North Koreans stood proud last week after Pyongyang's missile launch, UN Security Council members remain deadlocked about a unified response. Pyongyang claims the satellite successfully reached orbit "fully demonstrating the might of science and technology as a leading launcher". Reports from within the Stalinist state ...

Recently a group of Chinese Internet users went on a witchhunt to expose a local government official at a media watchdog, posting uploaded receipts adding up to nearly $7000 in dining, entertainment and massage expenses. Dubbed the Liuyang Scandal, Internet users started asking how such a lowly public servant could ...

A WHO conference convened in Beijing this week to discuss international efforts to fight an increasingly virulent strain of tuberculosis in developing countries. The new drug-resistant strain could have a major impact globally, according to WHO director-general Margaret Chan, who calls the situation "potentially explosive". Currently, 5% of cases of ...

As North Korea launched it’s Taepodong-2 satellite on Sunday morning, US and South Korean leaders condemned the act and urged international stance but UN remains deadlocked about response.

Pyongyang's intentions to conduct a space launch are questioned, US intelligence says differences between technology for a space launch and an intercontinental ballistic minimal.

U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton encouraged China to continue investing in U.S. treasury bonds, after meeting with Chinese foreign minister Yang Jiechi on the weekend, maintaining U.S. debt remains a sound investment.

Chinese state news agency Xinhua has confirmed that a massive Beijing hotel fire that erupted Monday night was started by fireworks set off during an illegal light show organized by Chinese state television station CCTV to celebrate the last day of Chinese New Year celebrations. One firefighter died and seven ...

Pyongyang is assembling it's most sophisticated long-range missile in preparation for a possible test-fire, according to South Korean Chosun Ilbo newspaper. Satellite images from Tokyo and Seoul show the North Korean military moving missile parts to a new base, to assemble an improved Taepodong-2 missile capable of traveling ...

Hillary Clinton will travel to Asia on Sunday for her first trip abroad as U.S. Secretary of State, in a diplomatic gesture that shows a shift of priorities in American foreign policy. Speaking at the Asia Society in New York on Friday Clinton announced the Asian region would be a ...

People's Bank of China vice governor Su Ning responded to US State Treasury accusations that  China is manipulating its currency, warning the new Obama government against trade barriers,  reported Chinese news agency Xinhua. "These remarks are not only inconsistent with the facts but they are misleading about the reasons for ...