China says it is targeting economic growth of 8% next year, despite the ongoing effects of the global downturn.
Twelve coal miners have been killed and 11 others trapped in two gas explosions at coal mines in China, state media says.
Japan’s 77-year-old Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii was hospitalised Monday for a rest and medical tests due to high blood pressure and fatigue, his ministry said.
A Vietnamese pro-democracy campaigner has gone on trial accused of attempted subversion of the communist state – a charge that risks the death penalty.
Coast guard and military vessels are scouring Philippine seas for passengers missing from a pair of Christmas ferry tragedies.
China is likely to overtake Germany as the world’s largest exporter in 2009, despite a sharp fall in shipments as the global downturn took its toll, a high-ranking trade official has said.
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