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China urges international support for the Burmese general election planned for later this year, as Burma's leader begins a five-day visit to China.

North Korea has asked South Korea to send rice, cement and construction equipment after devastating floods, southern officials say.

Stephanie Rice loses sponsorship after homophobic remarks

Julia Gillard is to remain as Australia's prime minister after winning the backing of two key independent MPs.

Japanese driver Kamui Kobayashi will stay with Sauber for the 2011 season, the F1 team says.

The cost of borrowing in Australia stays at 4.5% and Japan at near zero amid continuing global economic uncertainty.

Violent aftershocks rattle the New Zealand city of Christchurch following the weekend's powerful earthquake that caused widespread damage.

Three independent Australian MPs are due to reveal who they will back as prime minister, ending two weeks of deadlock since inconclusive elections.

Seven-times MotoGP world champion Valentino Rossi leads a host of tributes to rider Shoya Tomizawa, who died in Sunday's Moto2 race in San Marino.

A television advert for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr is scrapped in Malaysia after viewers said it resembled Christmas.

Malaysian wildlife trafficker Anson Wong, nicknamed the Lizard King, is jailed for trying to smuggle 95 boa constrictors in his luggage.

China is checking the qualifications of all its commercial pilots, after it emerged that more than 200 of them lied about their experience.

Almost two-thirds of the 160,000 homes in and around Christchurch were damaged by Saturday's earthquake, New Zealand's prime minister says.

Towns in Australia remain on high alert as flood waters continue to rise.

A court in Japan gives one-year suspended jail sentences to two anti-whaling activists from Greenpeace for stealing whale meat in 2008.

Far-right groups on the rise in Mongolia

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Officials in New Zealand have been evaluating the damage caused in the city of Christchurch by an earthquake and its many aftershocks.

Moto2 rider Shoya Tomizawa dies after a crash at the San Marino Grand Prix.

Police in New Zealand name nine people, including four foreigners, who died when a light aircraft crashed after taking off from Fox Glacier on Saturday.