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South Korea's President Lee Myung-bak has invited Japanese Emperor Akihito to attend the 100th anniversary of Japan's annexation of Korea in Seoul next year. The move is aimed at... 2009-10-05

Addressing a grand rally at the Tian'anmen Square in Beijing to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, President Hu Jintao vowed to keep... 2009-10-05

Li Kenong, vice head of China's General Administration of Customs, has revealed that the fall in Chinese exports eased on a y-o-y basis in August, compared with the 22.9% y-o-y slump... 2009-09-07

The government's decision to allow the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama to visit Taiwan in late August to console victims of typhoon Morakot was bound to raise eyebrows.... 2009-09-04

President Lee Myung-bak has announced plans to replace several ministry heads as part of an effort to re-orient his agenda towards issues centered on national unity and welfare for... 2009-08-27

As widely anticipated, President Ma Ying-jeou was elected chairman of the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) party on July 26. Ma lost this position back in 2007 following a corruption indictment... 2009-08-03

Chinese industrial profits declined by 21.2% y-o-y in the first half of 2009, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), but this marked a slower pace of decline than... 2009-07-29

As we go to press there are news that the opposition, and pro-independence, Democratic Progressive Party, which was catapulted out of office in the 2008 elections, are planning a... 2009-05-11

Former President Roh Moo-hyun was summoned to the state prosecutor's office on April 30 to face questions over a bribery scandal dating back to his time in office. At the heart of... 2009-05-07

Although official statistics reported an unemployment rate of 4.3% in Q109, a slight uptick from the 4.2% recorded in Q408, a report by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)... 2009-05-06