South Korea and Japan on Monday reached an agreement on Japan's wartime sexual slavery of Korean women during World War II as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made an official apology for the atrocities.
New Zealand has led an international call for an end to fishing subsidies, arguing at World Trade Organization (WTO) talks that they are harming the development of small island states.
In the final stretch of a turbulent year trapped in acute double crises, the five-year debt issue and the escalating refugee crisis as of early 2015, more hard work seems to be awaiting Greece in 2016.
Twenty percent of U.S. registered voters say they will only vote for a candidate who shares their views on immigration, with another 60 percent saying it will be one of many important considerations they take into account, according to a Gallup poll released Wednesday.
A minister of the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet visited the war criminal-honored Yasukuni Shrine on Thursday, one day after Chinese President Xi Jinping told Abe that history issue is a major matter of principle concerning political basis of bilateral ties.
A recent comment by U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter regarding the South China Sea has again prompted many to wonder if the self-proclaimed world "Anchor of Peace" is really so keen on quiet waters.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen reiterated on Wednesday that the South China Sea dispute is the issue between claimant states and China, not between ASEAN and China.
China and the ASEAN countries should build a community of common destiny with strategic mutual trust to meet the supreme interests of all parties, experts from both sides said at the ASEAN Development Forum 2014 held here on Saturday.
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has said that his country can learn from Japan on managing the aging issue
South Korea's foreign ministry said Tuesday that its director general-level diplomat will head to Tokyo later this week to hold talks about Japan's wartime sexual enslavement of Korean women.
Malaysia was discussing with relevant authorities and experts on the custody of the black box of the missing MH370 flight, Malaysian acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said here Sunday.
The Japanese government has hired U.S. lobby firms in its efforts to smooth over "comfort women," an issue that has roiled Japan's relations with those countries whose women were forced into sexual slavery by Japanese Imperial Armed Forces during World War II, a U.S. newspaper said on Thursday.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will raise the issue of drone attacks with U.S. President Barrack Obama in Washington later this month, the country's top diplomat said Saturday.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told a major U.S. network on Wednesday that his administration will never develop nuclear weapons and that he has full authority to make a deal with Western powers on his country's atomic program.
There are signs of tension easing in the Peninsula, and leaders of the DPRK have voiced willingness to conduct multilateral talks without additional conditions.
An opportunity or a window has emerged to open talks on Korean Peninsula nuclear issue, a senior official with the Chinese military said here Tuesday.
Chinese President Xi Jinping said here Wednesday that China and Vietnam should push forward with seeking a political solution to the South China Sea issue.
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