(AAP) Referees have agreed to end their boycott of a central Queensland junior rugby league competition following a violent attack on an official - but only if security is present.

OSAKA, June 24 Kyodo - The Osaka Prefectural government will not appeal a court ruling that its decision in 2006 to reject applications from South Koreans living outside Japan for health passbooks

TOKYO, June 24 Kyodo - Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano was confronted Wednesday with allegations that his fund management body might have received illegal donations from a dummy political organizatio

Jakarta, June 24 (ANTARA) - Indonesians planning to travel to Australia for holidays over the next few months should lodge their visa applications as soon as possible to avert delays, the Australia

Mataram, June 24 (ANTARA) - Police in West Lombok are examining 21 illegal immigrants from Afghanistan who intended to travel to Austrlia by boat.

Kuala Lumpur, June 24 (ANTARA/Bernama) - Malaysia will hand over chair of the 4th BIMP-EAGA Brunei-Indonesia,-Malaysia-Philippines East Asean Growth Area) Transport Ministers' Conference to Indones

Putrajaya, June 24 (ANTARA/Bernama) -- Malaysia needs to improve the contract between the employer and domestic maid that will give satisfaction to both sides, Malaysian ambasasador to Indonesia, Z

Jammu, June 24 (PTI) Twenty-five people were killed
and 48 others were injured when a bus skidded off the India's
northern state Jammu-Katra Highway and fell into a deep gorge

(AAP) The head of Sydney Ferries racked up a $237,000 corporate credit card debt due to a crippling mortgage and his wife's medical bills, a corruption inquiry has been told.

SEOUL, June 24 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's government and private assistance for North Korea has plummeted 60 percent this year amid the rising cross-border tension stemming from the North's nuclear