Новости по теме Asia Pacific

Taiwan panda cub spends first night with doting mother Taiwan's first new-born panda stayed overnight for the first time with her doting mother, zoo-keepers said Thursday, following a heartwarming reunion that took place in the international limelight.

16 August 2013

Too late to stop extreme heat waves: study Climate change will trigger harsher and more frequent heat waves in the next 30 years regardless of the amount of Earth-warming carbon dioxide we emit.

16 August 2013

Suspects arraigned in US over global penny-stock fraud Six people appeared in US federal courts on Wednesday in connection with what American officials are calling one of the biggest international penny stock frauds ever investigated.

15 August 2013

Two Koreas agree on reopening joint industrial park North and South Korea agreed Wednesday to work on reopening a joint industrial zone shut down in April amid soaring military tensions.

15 August 2013

US universities top Chinese world rankings US universities dominate the top 20 in global annual rankings released by a Chinese organisation Thursday, with Harvard once again in top spot.

15 August 2013

New Zealand quake city opens cardboard cathedral Christchurch's cardboard cathedral officially opens on Thursday, replacing the neo-Gothic structure destroyed in a 2011 earthquake that killed 185 people in New Zealand's second largest city.

15 August 2013

Katy Perry confronts Australia's Abbott on gay marriage US pop star Katy Perry on Thursday took Tony Abbott to task over his stance on gay marriage, telling the Australian opposition leader she would not vote for him.

15 August 2013

Police alarm as N.Z. 'sleep driver' goes for a spin A New Zealand woman drove for hundreds of kilometres (miles) while asleep at the wheel, sending texts from her mobile phone along the way.

14 August 2013

Australia's Commonwealth Bank posts record profit Australia's biggest bank, the Commonwealth, on Wednesday posted an eight percent jump in full-year net profit to a record Aus$7.68 billion (US$6.98 billion).

14 August 2013

Bee sting therapy causing a buzz in China Patients in China are swarming to acupuncture clinics to be given bee stings to treat or ward off life-threatening illness.

14 August 2013

Indonesia anti-graft body arrests energy watchdog chief Indonesia's anti-corruption agency has arrested the head of the country's upstream oil and gas regulator over allegations of bribery.

14 August 2013

Kazakhstan Tourist Association comments on 'Chinese visa issue' The 'visa-free regime' does not mean cancellation of visas, but involves introduction of ADS visas for group travel: president Assanbayeva.

14 August 2013

World-first study tracks dwarf minke whales Dwarf minke whales have been tagged and tracked in Australia's Great Barrier Reef in a world-first pilot study which hopes to solve the mystery of where they spend the summer.

14 August 2013

Indian submarine explodes with 18 on board A recently refurbished Indian submarine exploded and sank early Wednesday in a dock in Mumbai, leaving rescuers scrambling to find 18 sailors who were on board.

14 August 2013

Brazil sues Samsung over poor working conditions Brazil has filed a lawsuit against Samsung alleging poor working conditions at a factory in the Amazon and is demanding more than $100 million in damages.

14 August 2013

'No place' for sexism in Australia: PM Rudd Prime Minister Kevin Rudd Wednesday said there was "no place" for sexism, racism or homophobia in Australia as election rival Tony Abbott laughed off his touting of a candidate's sex appeal.

14 August 2013

Severe typhoon hits Hong Kong Hong Kong battened down Wednesday as Severe Typhoon Utor forced the closure of the city's financial market and schools and disrupted hundreds of flights after leaving six dead in the Philippines.

14 August 2013

Hackers attack exiled Tibet government website Hackers have attacked the Tibetan government-in-exile's Chinese-language website with an unidentified virus, making the portal inaccessible.

13 August 2013

New H7N9 bird flu death confirmed in China: hospital A Chinese woman infected with the deadly H7N9 bird flu virus died of multiple organ failure, a Beijing hospital said, bringing the total fatalities from the disease to 45.

13 August 2013

Study details 'severe' brutality against women in PNG Women in poverty-stricken Papua New Guinea suffer "severe brutality" with violence, including savage attacks involving knives, axes and whips, occurring in two-thirds of all families.

13 August 2013

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