The Australian dollar fell almost a quarter of a U.S. cent on Tuesday after the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept interest rates on hold for the 14th month in a row.
The Japanese government is mulling to further impose sanctions against Russia on current turbulence in Ukraine, local media reported Thursday, citing government officials as saying.
Bangladesh's anti-crime elite force RAB early Wednesday arrested the owner of a ferry that had capsized last week, leaving at least 46 people dead and 61 others still missing.
A total of 11 people have been killed by typhoon Rammasun in Vietnam as of Monday morning, said Vietnam' s National Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Prevention and Control.
Expectations are "low" for this week's Syria peace talks in Geneva as violence continues unabated in the embattled Middle East country, U.S. experts told Xinhua.
Iraqi security forces on Thursday struggled to drive back Sunni militants in several provinces across the country, as the government denied withdrawal of security forces from the Iraqi-Saudi border line, a security source said.
Vice governor of China's central bank on Tuesday highlighted the country's current financial risks, promising to strengthen and improve financial regulation.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Monday that his country would do everything it can to block its citizens who joined the radical terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq from returning.
The Australian government is closely observing its nationals who are currently fighting together with some radical terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq, worrying they may pose great threat to the national security when they return to the oceanic country.
The Australian government is closely observing its nationals who are currently fighting together with some radical terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq, worrying they may pose great threat to the national security when they return to the oceanic country.
India on Monday concluded its ninth and final phase of the Lok Sabha election with a record high turnout of over 66 percent throughout the polling for over a month, said election officials and media report.
A passenger ship with 459 people aboard, mostly high school students, sank in waters off South Korea's southwest coast Wednesday morning, leaving at least two people dead and 293 others missing, a senior government official said.
China's industry heavyweights enjoy easy access to cheap bank loans, while smaller firms in dire need for fund usually find it expensive, if not impossible, to secure loans.
The Philippine government on Wednesday expressed hope that the Maguindanao massacre case would be resolved on or before June 2016.
Four Islamist militants were arrested on Saturday night after armed clash with security forces, Tunisia' s national news agency TAP reported.
With the clock ticking down on United States Secretary of State John Kerry's efforts to complete a framework for a peace-agreement, Israelis and Palestinians are doing their best to stake their claims and to criticize Kerry.
An out of service passenger train derailed at a subway station in Japan's central city of Osaka on Tuesday morning, affecting some 50,000 commuters but there were no reported injuries, according to local press.
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