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

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.

Recently freed from a prison in Nanjing, China, Australian Carl Mather says China's justice system is governed more by political connections than rule of law.

China's poultry industry is losing 166 million Australian dollars a day because of the outbreak of the latest strain of bird flu in late March.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is in India on his first foreign trip since taking up the post in March.

A Russian-financed Vietnamese search engine is attempting to dislodge Google as the top choice in Vietnam.

China's Ministry of Land Resources has once again issued an emergency notice calling for an end to forced, illegal land requisitions.

As the melting of the Arctic ice opens up new shipping routes and new opportunities for oil and gas exploration, the world is suddenly paying more attention to the North Pole.

Taiwan has imposed sanctions on the Philippines, rejecting as unacceptable an apology from Manila over the killing of a fisherman from Taiwan last week.