Malaysia's Abdullah avoids confidence test
Kuala Lumpur, June 24 Kyodo - Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi avoided a crisis of confidence Monday when he won majority support in Parliament for his move to raise fuel
Kuala Lumpur, June 24 Kyodo - Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi avoided a crisis of confidence Monday when he won majority support in Parliament for his move to raise fuel
Beijing, June 24 Kyodo - North Korea will submit a full list of its nuclear programs to China on Thursday, a move that would end a six-month stalemate in denuclearization talks triggered by di
MANILA, June 23 (Kyodo) - The death toll from a typhoon in the Philippines rose to at least 73 Sunday while operations continued to find survivors after a ferry carrying more than 700 people ca
SAO PAULO, June 23 (Kyodo) - Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito on Saturday attended a memorial festival in this southeastern Brazilian city celebrating the centennial of Japanese emigration to the coun
KATHMANDU, June 21 Kyodo - Nepalese police broke up an anti-China protest in Kathmandu and temporarily detained over 600 Tibetan protesters on Saturday, police said.
WASHINGTON, June 21 (Kyodo) - Japan has indicated to member countries of the International Whaling Commission that it may resume commercial whaling if the IWC fails to alleviate tensions between pr
Aomori, Japan, June 21 Kyodo - Japanese police arrested the whale campaign coordinator and another member of conservation group Greenpeace Japan on Friday on suspicion of stealing whale meat, whic
Taipei, June 21 Kyodo - Japan officially apologized to Taiwan on Friday and reiterated its willingness to offer compensation for a ship collision earlier this month that sparked a diplomatic r
Sendai, June 21 Kyodo - The death toll from the powerful earthquake that hit Iwate and Miyagi prefectures last Saturday reached 12 on Friday after a body was found at a construction site in Ku
TOKYO, June 19 (Kyodo) - Japan and China have reached political agreement on gas exploration projects in the East China Sea in a major step forward in a longstanding dispute, with Japan to invest i