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Premier Wen Jiabao has outlined the Chinese government's priorities and key concerns in the opening session of the National People's Congress.

Four supporters of East Timorese rebel leader, Major Alfredo Reinado, were killed in an early morning raid on Sunday.

Every day nearly two billion people in Asia live without access to basic sanitation.

Australia's foreign minister has defended the role of Australian-led troops in the unsuccessful raid to capture the East Timorese rebel leader, Major Alfredo Reinado.

The International Narcotics Control Board says many people are putting themselves at risk when buying medicines over the internet.

The United States has announced it will resume direct aid to support Cambodian government projects.

China says it will increase military spending by 17.

A report from human rights group, Amnesty International, describes hundreds of millions of Chinese labour migrants as an 'underclass'.

Southeast Asian and Australian ministers begin talks today in Indonesia to discuss the threat of terrorism.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has outraged Japan's neighbours by saying there was no evidence of coercion of Asian women being made to work as sex slaves for Japanese frontline troops during the second world war.

The United States and North Korea begins negotiating the normalising of relations in New York today.

A German tourist who says he took a photo of a Tasmanian Tiger two years ago has returned to the Australian island state to prove the animal isn't extinct.

Cambodia's local commune elections next month will include 100,000 candidates competing for seats.

An Australian coroner has issued an arrest warrant for former Indonesian cabinet minister, Mohammed Yunus Yosfiah.

A human rights group says a deal between the Cambodian government and a development company is riddled with deceit and corruption.

East Timor has officially asked Australian-led international troops to arrest rebel leader Alfredo Reinado.

The Indian government's big spending budget targeting the poor is unlikely to significantly improve the administration's fortunes.

Malaysia is considering tough new laws to restrict the movement of migrant workers whom they say are responsible for escalating rates of crime.

Pakistani security forces are reported to have captured high-ranking Taliban leader, Mullah Obaidullah Akhund.