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Obama, Southeast Asian leaders seek to settle region's maritime disputesPresident聽Obama has been hosting leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, in the US for the first time. The president told a聽news conference that disputes must be resolved by legal means.
Q&A: Is No. Korea, the master of survival, again friends with China?Frosty relations between North Korea and China may be warming despite a ramping up of nuclear and missile testing, according to Pyongyang watcher聽Andrei Lankov.聽
The ExplainerWhat N. Korea's rocket test tells us about its military capabilityPyongyang is ramping up its nuclear and missile programs after a successful rocket launch Feb. 7. US officials warn that the North is trying to obtain weapons-grade fissionable material from a previously shuttered reactor.聽
Why South Korea is shutting down joint industrial parkSouth聽Korea聽said Wednesday that it will shut down a joint industrial park with North Korea, the last major cooperation project between the rival countries.
North Korea still evading UN sanctions, agency panel saysPyongyang is able to keep evading sanctions partly because of聽"the low level of implementation" by the 193 UN member states of the four UN sanctions resolutions adopted since the country's first nuclear test in 2006.
5 reasons China won't help shut down North Korea's nuclear programIn Washington, all eyes are on Beijing as Chinese leaders decide how to respond to North Korea's recent satellite launch. Why are they so hesitant to act?
In China, gays say life has changed much for the betterFilms and court cases related to gay relationships and marriage signal a shift in attitudes, even as聽opinion polls yield wildly varying results.
First LookChinese Lunar New Year: a time for hope and familyThe Chinese New Year officially began on Monday. This year marks the year of the monkey, an animal characterized as intelligent, witty, curious, and playful.
Weird Super Bowl flyover: North Korea's newest satelliteA satellite launched by North Korea Sunday passed almost right over Levi's Stadium about an hour after the Super Bowl ended.
Rescuers in Taiwan pull out survivors from quake rubbleThirty-two people have died and more than 100 聽remain buried in the rubble of an apartment building that collapsed during an earthquake on Saturday.
N. Korea praises rocket; others view as covert missile testComing a month after the country claimed to have successfully detonated a hydrogen bomb, the launch could provoke tougher sanctions from the international community.
North Korea moves up rocket launch window to next weekNorth Korea moved up its planned rocket launch window to Feb. 7-14. South Korea says it believes the launch could come as soon as Sunday.
Rescue efforts continue after massive Taiwan earthquakeA magnitude-6.4 earthquake shook Taiwan, collapsing buildings and killing 13 people. About 340 people were rescued from the rubble in Tainan.聽More than 100 are still missing.聽
China detains another Protestant pastor: Whiff of the Cultural Revolution?US officials call for release of leading pastors detained in China. Pastor Li Guanzhong and his wife were detained Jan. 29, days after the head of China's biggest megachurch was sent to a 'black jail.' 聽聽
First LookAre fears over North Korean rocket launch warranted?North Korea has announced plans to deliver an Earth observation satellite into orbit sometime in February, stoking concerns that the nation may actually preparing to test a ballistic missile.
First LookNorth Korea's February satellite launch suspected to be missile testInternational experts suspect that the country's satellite rocket launches are meant to disguise ballistic missile tests banned by UN sanctions.- Military use? North Korea says it plans to launch a satellite in FebruarySatellites can aid in precision targeting for a stilll-nascent missile program. In recent months North Korea may have built a rocket gantry tall enough to launch a satellite- carrying rocket.
Dawn of a new democratic era in MyanmarWhat happens next is being touted as 'a political and economic renaissance' or, as one local editorial predicted, 'Myanmar's best year yet.'
FocusSeeking citizenship: Thailand holds out hope for millions of undocumentedSome 15 million people worldwide are denied basic rights because they lack legal nationality. Thailand,聽which聽has one of the world's largest stateless populations,聽is trying to tackle the problem.聽
Myanmar's new rulers take seats in parliament, eye presidencyThe National League for Democracy won a landslide election win last November. It now controls parliament and is preparing to pick the country's next president.聽