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China warns Japan that their wider relationship will suffer if Tokyo mishandles a dispute about a Chinese fishing boat seized in disputed waters.

A blind activist jailed after revealing right abuses under China's one-child policy has been freed after a four-year prison term, a rights group says.

Investigators in the Philippines say police may have accidentally shot some of the hostages on a bus hijacked last month.

South Korea's central bank surprises markets by keeping interest rates on hold in the face of "global uncertainties".

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Vodafone pockets $6.5bn in cash following the sale of its 3.2% stake in China's biggest wireless operator, China Mobile.

Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi is to team up with Speed director Jan de Bont to make an English-language version of the Chinese legend Mulan.

At least 30 workers are rescued and at least two are missing after a storm causes an oil rig off China's north-east coast to list dangerously.

A 20-year-old fisherman from Papua New Guinea survives three weeks lost at sea by eating coconuts and collecting rain water.

The first witness in the trial of a powerful clan accused of the Philippines' worst political massacre says the family plotted the killings over dinner.

Australia and New Zealand top the table in the largest ever study into global charitable behaviour, but some poor countries also scoring high.

The Malaysian capital has introduced a so-called "baby hatch" to try to save some of the hundreds of babies abandoned every year.

A diplomatic row between China and Japan intensifies after collisions between two Japanese patrol boats and a Chinese trawler.

The Japanese finance minister says there could be market intervention as the yen hits a new 15-year high.

A powerful aftershock near the New Zealand city of Christchurch causes further damage and sends residents running into the streets, reports say.

Malaysia opens 'baby hatch' to save unwanted newborns

The National Basketball Association wants to expand the game and are looking at emerging markets such as India and China to push their products.

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Suicides and depression cost Japan's economy $32bn last year, in a country which has one of the world's highest suicide rates, the government says.

North Korea frees the crew of a South Korean fishing boat seized in waters east of the Korean peninsula a month ago.