An unusual extension for Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha may pave the way for a longer term for the head of the army, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, who was set to step down this year.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejected American allegations that Iran was providing support to the Taliban, accusing the United States of playing a “double game.”
China fears protests this week to mark the anniversaries of ethnic uprisings.
Pakistani authorities said about a dozen masked militants stormed the building at about 9:30 a.m., herded staff members into a room, and started shooting indiscriminately.
While pledging nonviolence, protest leaders say they will gather mass rallies and blockades of government offices, starting on Friday and building over the following days.
Afghan and Pakistani leaders tried to bridge differences on dealing with Taliban militants in a border region.
Debate on the measure offered a preview of Congressional consideration later this year of the Obama administration’s request for money to pay for the Afghan war.
Passengers will board from the tarmac at a new no-frills airport north of Tokyo that intends to attract more low-cost airlines to Japan.
China Mobile will invest $5.8 billion in Shanghai Pudong Bank and work with it to offer wireless services like mobile bank cards.
Notes from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and other areas of conflict in the post-9/11 era.
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Moises Saman got to Marja by joining the entourage of the provincial governor, Patrick Witty writes, after keeping a low profile in the capital.
Why are many of China’s best and brightest — its college graduates — unable to find jobs?
Could this Chinese Year of the Tiger be the last one with actual tigers still afoot in the world’s wild?
Internet users are hunting down and punishing people who have attracted their wrath.
The Kingdom of the Little People, a $115 million universe in miniature, is set amid rolling hills and peaceful lakes in southern China’s Yunnan Province.
Yuppies from China’s boom cities arrive by the busload to take part in a wild frenzy of dousing and dunking and drenching at a site called the Dai Minority Park.
Mu Sochua of Cambodia is a member of a new generation of women working their way into the political systems of countries across Asia and elsewhere.
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