China has aided relatives of Namibia's former president, Sam Nujoma, left, and his successor, Hifikepunye Pohamba, right.
Secret scholarships to study in China that were awarded to the offspring of top officials in Namibia have angered the public there.
In his inaugural address, President Hamid Karzai said that the Afghan Army should assume full control of the country’s security within five years.
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President Obama sent Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to Afghanistan to press President Hamid Karzai to deliver “measurable results” in return for civilian aid.
Video: A New Term for Afghanistan's PresidentSeveral children and a police officer were among the victims of the blast on a crowded market.
The area of the attack is believed to hold many insurgents who fled from an army offensive elsewhere in the Afghan border region.
The recent unpopularity of President Asif Ali Zardari and resentment of America follow a familiar script.
Authorities appeared to carefully monitor how President Obama’s words were transmitted to China’s public, even in a newspaper known for its press-the-envelope approach.
Prior to a climate change meeting scheduled for Copenhagen, industrialized countries, except the United States, are offering targets to curb greenhouse gases.
The final details were minor compared with the substance of the financial cooperation deal between China and Taiwan, but carried significance of their own.
President Obama discovered that popularity did not necessarily translate into policy successes in Asia.
A scarcity of people willing to do the risky work of coconut plucking threatens India’s coconut industry and illustrates the loosening of caste bonds.
The old custom of giving cash-filled envelopes at weddings is being criticized as wasteful and, in some cases, even corruptive.
Young volunteers handing out long-stemmed yellow gerbera daisies in Singapore were the latest effort by the government to transform its public into ideal citizens.
Afghan religious leaders attended a workshop on birth control, birth spacing and breast-feeding last month.
Notes from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and other areas of conflict in the post-9/11 era.
The country is modernizing rapidly, sometimes too fast, but this spectacular old region still endures.
The role thrusts Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton into the thick of a critical international problem.
Stephen Crowley of The Times has found that just one frame is not enough to convey the cascading incongruities and harmonies of a presidential tour.
The world's No. 1 supplier of capital learns to live without U.S. consumers.
For better or for worse - for better and for worse - India embarked on a path that has today made it one of the world's most unabashedly capitalist places.
Chinese regions are vying to outdo one another in a race to develop alternative-energy sources and cut pollution.
How can an entire life fit in 100 square feet? Michael Wolf documented 100 10-by-10-foot apartments and their residents in Hong Kong, as Valerie Lapinski reports.
Kerala, India, is in the grips of an acute labor shortage that threatens to undermine one of its most important industries.
A handful of entrepreneurs are bringing outsourcing jobs to rural areas in India that have been largely cut off from its economic rise.
Recent successes in development projects in Jurm, Afghanistan, have raised hopes that it could be a model in a country where corruption and insurgency have impeded progress.
Manny Pacquiao and his trainer Freddie Roach took their training regimen to the fighter’s home country, the Philippines, as Pacquiao prepared for another title bout.
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