UN atomic agency to visit Fukushima
The UN atomic agency said Friday it is sending a team from October 14-21 to review Japan's progress cleaning up areas around the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant.
Chinese tourists, diplomats make a splash in the Maldives
The travellers pouring off flight LV199 from Shanghai into the international airport of the Maldives, many dressed in designer labels, are an unmissable sign of China's interest in the far-flung archipelago.
Shale boom remakes US energy, economyThe US shale boom is remaking the nation's industrial landscape and raising the prospect of energy independence in the world's biggest oil consumer.
High quality wines to be produced in south Kazakhstan: NazarbayevNorthern regions grow wheat. Gold and silver are produced in the East and copper is produced in Central Kazakhstan. Oil is produced in the West. Southern regions provide the country with vegetables, and now we can step up wine production: Kazakhstan President.
Two Koreas agree to open Kaesong zone next weekNorth and South Korea agreed Wednesday to reopen their Kaesong joint industrial park next week, five months after it was shut during soaring military tensions.