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By VOA News Maldives' first democratic presidential election is headed for a runoff vote, after Asia's longest serving ruler failed to gain a clear victory ...  

The agency said it had discovered two harmful batches of the medicine and urged people across China to report any problems with the product. ...  

Hardliners accused him of trying to please India to offset a deepening domestic crisis. His overture was praised in Delhi as recognition of a common ...  

BEIJING (AP) — China on Thursday rejected concerns that it would torture Chinese Muslims held by the US military at Guantanamo Bay if they are returned to ...  

BEIJING (AP) - China has warned the US presidential candidates approach bilateral relations with care, as Beijing continues to fume over a new US weapons ...  

Interest rates cuts by central banks in South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan on Thursday followed cuts in the United States, Europe and China overnight. ...  

HOHHOT, China (AP) — Peering into five pails of foaming milk, Wang Guifeng quickly jotted down the farmer's name before signaling the batch was OK. ...  

HONG KONG - Stock markets slid across Japan, Australia, China and Taiwan on Thursday, signaling that coordinated rate cuts led by the US Federal Reserve and ...  

WASHINGTON, Oct.8 (Xinhua) -- World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick said on Wednesday the growth of China's economy is "very important" to the global ...  

SHANGHAI (AFP) — China's milk crisis will likely cost billions of dollars, disrupt millions of livelihoods, and it could be a year before consumer ...  

By AP China has canceled a series of military and diplomatic contacts with the United States to protest a planned $6.5 billion package of American arms ...  

BANGALORE, India (AFP) — If statistics and experience alone won cricket matches, world champions Australia would be regarded as no-hopers in the Test series ...  

BEIJING, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- China's seismological authorities will send experts to an earthquake area in Tibet after a 6.6-magnitude quake killed at least ...  

Earthquakes are frequent in Central Asia, a region wedged between Afghanistan, Iran, Russia and China. In 1966, the Uzbek capital Tashkent was flattened by ...  

Last month, Nomura said it would acquire Lehman Brothers' Asia Pacific franchise as well as its Europe and Middle East investment banking and equities ...