Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in Singapore on Saturday (Nov 7), the first meeting between the top leaders of the two sides since 1949.
Australia has offered to pay the costs of life sentences in jail for two of its citizens currently on death row for drug smuggling in Indonesia, if they are granted clemency.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde named Changyong Rhee, the chief economist of the Asian Development Bank, as director of the organization's Asia and Pacific Department, the IMF said Tuesday.