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New research has discovered that Vitamin C can kill drug resistant tuberculosis in a lab setting.

Each year flu vaccines are produced to match viruses.

In Washington two years ago, a female US sergeant and a male Chinese singer wearing a PLA uniform sang a duet from the Verdi opera La Traviata, in what Reuters news agency calls the first major thaw in US-China relations.

Cross-dressing, bad language, sleep deprivation and sex toys - they're all part of the video for a new song by Chinese artist and activist, Ai Weiwei.

Ford Australia has announced that it's ending production in Australia by 2016 with the loss of 1,200 jobs.

Just a day following historic White House talks between President Obama and Myanmar's reformist head of state Thein Sein, a trade and investment deal has been struck between the two countries.

Thursday marks the 20th anniversary of the first day of voting in the UN-run elections in Cambodia.

The Commonwealth Ombudsman had criticised the Australian Government's handling of long term immigration detainees, saying there are no adequate policies in place to deal with their mental health needs.

The Second Asia-Pacific Water Summit has wrapped up, with a declaration by leaders and representatives of more than 50 countries to do more on water security.

Technology company Apple has been questioned by American senators over its controversial tax haven arrangements in Ireland.

Myanmar's government says it's being unfairly judged on the record of the past.

Over the past five years, India's imports of coal from South Africa, Indonesia and Australia have boomed, increasing by around 40 per centBut the massive expansion of coal fired power generation in India has not been enough to prevent more than half the thermal coal mines in Australia becoming uneconomic - that's according to coal industry research being shown to MPs in Canberra.

Australia is now home to more than two million migrants who were born in Asia - more than double the number at the turn of the century.

Cambodia's official Anti-Corruption Unit is demanding the former spokesman for King Norodom Sihanouk declare his assets or else face legal action, in what Prince Thomico says is payback for joining the opposition party.

As yet another great power prepares to wind down its military presence in Afghanistan, is history repeating itself?That's the question that's been debated throughout the US-led military campaign.

When researchers in China's Guangzhou tested the rice being sold at the market earlier this year they got some worrying results.

Thailand's deputy prime minister Chalerm Yubamrung plans to introduce a contentious amnesty bill into parliament tomorrow.