The Chinese president warned growth could slow further, prompting expectations of possible new stimulus spending.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura said Japan will buy the three uninhabited islands in the East China Sea from a Japanese family it recognizes as the owner.

Chinese micro-bloggers have speculated to why vice president Xi Jinping has gone unseen for a week.

Hong Kong's legislature is split between those aligned with Beijing and those who favor further democratic reforms.

The group is one of the most dangerous fighting foreign forces in Afghanistan.

The three-day visit by S.M. Krishna is not expected to produce breakthroughs on the major conflicts between the two neighbors, including the disputed territory of Kashmir.

The Hong Kong government calls it national education. But parents, teachers and pupils fear it's a ploy to indoctrinate the city's young.

All nine judges on Myanmar's Constitution Tribunal have resigned after the lower house of parliament voted to impeach them in a standoff within Myanmar's government.

In recent weeks, these long-simmering tensions have returned to a boil, with violent protests in Chinese cities, and an island junket by South Korea's president.

The government of Kashmir has rejected wide-scale DNA testing of bodies in thousands of unmarked graves despite pleas by the families of those who disappeared during two decades of fighting in the restive region.