Sabah state government announces it will phase out by December 2007 logging activities in Ulu Segama and Malau forests
Pope Benedict XVI elevates Joseph Zen to cardinal, in move seen as signaling China's increasing importance for Vatican
Protesters, mostly South Koreans, were detained after violent demonstration during World Trade Organization meeting last month
Thaksin Shinawatra, other former officials
Statement read on state-owned television says North Korea will take 'stronger action' should other countries 'pressure' it to stop furt
Recent outbreak of violence among former military officers has exposed fragility of world's youngest democracy
US secretary of state takes package of proposals to Israeli, Lebanese governments to try to end crisis
Attorney General Abdul Rahman Saleh says decision was made because of former leader's poor health
Industrial production - driven by exports - nearly 17 percent up; Investments in factories, real estate, other fixed assets rising near
Investors, many of them bargain hunters, return to stock market, buoyed by government's surprise decision to partially lift capital con
As crude trades past $74 a barrel, oil-importing Asian governments are not taking any chances with inflation
Karen National Union spokesman says situation in eastern Burma is "intense" and two-year-old informal cease-fire is no longer working
Police say officers were escorting group of teachers to school when bomb exploded in Narathiwat
UN estimates number of elderly people in Asia will more than triple by 2050
UN health agency experts who recently visited Qinghai province says five times as many birds have died of avian flu there as originally
Taiwan government statement accuses China of trying to manipulate relations between the two through negotiations with opposition
Measure intended to raise investor confidence
Military spokesman says about 200 militants are being cornered in a small village outside the provincial capital of Jolo
Politicians, business people at odds over what effect latest bombings will have on Bali's - and Indonesia's - economy
Military officials say leaders of local Muslim guerilla group, Abu Sayyaf and operatives from regional terror network, Jemaah Islamiya
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