The chief negotiators of New Zealand and South Korea have initialed the text of a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA), in an important step towards boosting trade between the two nations, New Zealand Trade Minister Tim Groser said Monday.
Myanmar's commerce authorities are planning to expand the existing check point at Muse Border Trade Zone with China in light of increased trade between the two countries, a semi-official media reported Monday.
The Pacific island nations are looking well-prepared for a possibly worse-than-usual cyclone season despite countries such as Tonga coping with a drought after a dry year, a senior New Zealand Red Cross official said Monday.
The body of Sydney hostage siege gunman Man Haron Monis was released by the New South Wales Coroner on Monday after his autopsy was completed.
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Macao on Friday noon for celebrations marking the 15th anniversary of Macao's return to the motherland.
Australian counter-terrorism police confirmed on Friday they raided five Sydney homes on Thursday which were linked to a man's alleged plot to execute a random member of the public in Martin Place in the city's CBD.
The development of relations between China and Oceanian countries have entered a new era after Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to this part of the world in November this year.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrived Bangkok Friday to attend the fifth summit of the Greater Mekong Subregion Economic Cooperation.
Japan and the United States announced Friday that they will delay the revision of their defense guidelines planned in the end of this year until the first half of 2015 so as to keep in step with Japan's legislation over the right to collective self-defense, according to local media.
Indonesia closed an airport in Ternate of North Maluku province on Friday and warned planes to avoid the routes around the erupting volcano, an official said.
South Korea's constitutional court ruled Friday that a minor political party, which has been considered as a blind follower of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), should be dismissed.
As Pakistan mourns massacre of children in a deadly attack on army- run school at the hands of terrorists from Pakistani Taliban, people in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Wednesday offered prayers in absentia for the slain.
Pakistan will prepare a national anti-terror plan in a week, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Wednesday a day after a group of Taliban militants attacked an army school and killed 141 people including 132 children.
Senior Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan announced on Wednesday an end to his four-month long anti-government protest following the terrorist attack that killed 141 people, including 132 children.
Pakistan's Army Chief General Raheel Sharif met Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and the top commander of foreign troops in Kabul on Wednesday and shared the " vital elements of intelligence with concerned authorities," about the latest terrorist attack in Peshawar.
Afghanistan has overcome the worst political crisis and security upheaval in 2014 through the first- ever successful transfer of power from one elected president to another albeit through a protracted electoral process that tested the will and strength of the battle-scarred Afghan people.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's expected attendance at a Greater Mekong Subregion summit in Thailand signals China's more active role in efforts to bolster regional economy and connectivity and to expand the scope of cooperation.
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