The US Navy is monitoring a North Korean shipping vessel suspected of carrying missile parts towards Myanmar, heightening tension days after the UN imposed financial sanctions on the Stalinist state.

As North Korea continues to spew provocative threats, members of the UN security council and regional allies are responding with increasingly less tolerance.

The suicide of former president Roh Moo-hyun last week has spurred growing unrest and criticism of the current Lee administration.

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activists donning pink rallied for gay rights on Saturday in nanny-state Singapore, just one week after the government rescinded an NGO sex education program.

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 ...

China's acceptance of Taiwan's participation at a WHO meeting, as well this week's cross-straits trade talks, are the latest in warming relations since Taiwanese leader Ma Ying-jeou took office.

Just one day after the Malaysian government announced a ban on the religious conversion of children without mutual parental consent, a potentially landmark court ruling took place.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party begins coalition building after a narrow win, while rights groups claim millions were unable to vote. Two civil rights groups filed law suits against the Election Commission for its failure to give every Indonesian to ability to vote. So, while foreign media focuse on ...

Early election results reveal Sunday the Democrat Party has won 20 percent of the vote, which means reelection for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Results will be confirmed in two weeks. The world's largest Muslim population has seen strong economic growth and stability under Yudhoyono's last term. This is the third ...

At the recent G20 summit in England, China promised $40 bln to IMF's total $750 bln rescue package. China's premiere business magazine Caijing points out this sum, 5.3 percent of the entire $750 billion pledged, is well above China's 3.8 voting share in the IMF. This has left some wondering ...