Japan’s government has for the first time declared a “nuclear emergency” as diesel backup systems failed at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in the wake of the devastating earthquake.
Agriculture experts in China warn that the frequency and severity of droughts have increased over the past decade, causing heavy crop losses and posing a potentially grave threat to grain security.
Japan is preparing to send 100 troops to Yonaguni, a remote island just south of the disputed Senkaku archipelago, where Tokyo accuses Beijing of drilling for natural gas.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's trip last year to the disputed Kuril Islands has sparked both a regional military build-up and a diplomatic war of words with Japan.
A Chinese court ruled that the death of a village chief crushed by a truck was an accident—sparking outrage from supporters, who insist he was murdered for his protests over land seizures.
Chinese troops have been sent to North Korea’s Special Economic Zone of Rajin-Sonbong, near the Chinese border, according to reports in the South Korean media.
The defense chiefs of South Korea and Japan met in Seoul to pledge unprecedented military relations after Pentagon calls for “trilateral cooperation” against the DPRK.
China launched plans to drill for oil in a disputed region of the East China Sea as anti-Japan protests were held across the country on the national holiday remembering the 1931 invasion.
A Chinese prison on Sept. 9 released Chen Guangcheng, a blind Chinese human rights legal activist who has finished serving a four-year sentence for “organizing a mob to disturb traffic.”
Thousands of coal trucks and other vehicles are backed up for 75 miles on a highway in northern China. In a recent monster-jam on the Beijing-Tibet highway, motorists were immobilized for five days.
Hundreds of Taiwanese indigenous villagers protested in Taipei against the government’s resettlement plans ahead of the one-year anniversary of the disastrous Typhoon Morakot.
Eight have been arrested following a clash between villagers and workers at a coal mine in Shaanxi province. Control of the village-owned mine was usurped by private investors.
