Japan expressed concern over China's growing military activities on Friday and urged Beijing to be clearer about its defence spending, as discord over islets in the East China Sea raised tensions between the Asian economic powers.

• September 10, 2010

South Korea's point man on North Korea warned Thursday of a global "nuclear domino effect" unless the communist state scraps its atomic weapons.

• September 10, 2010

Trying to smooth over recently rocky relations before a visit to Washington, Chinese President Hu Jintao yesterday told American officials that he wanted to see healthy and stable ties between the two countries. The meeting between Hu

• September 9, 2010

A new report from the International Crisis Group, ‘Turkey’s crisis over Israel and Iran,’ says the country’s Western partners ‘should be fairer’ in approaching Turkey. The report says the West should not use one-sided presentations of its policy on Iran or Israel to decide whether or not it is ‘Western’ and ‘European’

• September 9, 2010

In the race to build advanced industrial and military products, China has a key advantage: the world's biggest reserves of rare earth minerals that are essential to many of these products.

• September 9, 2010

China had overtaken the US to lead a quarterly index of the most attractive countries for renewable energy projects for the first time, according to a list compiled by the global accounting firm Ernst & Young.

• September 9, 2010

Russia and Kazakhstan have signed a package of agreements, including a document on the joint development of the Imashevskoye gas condensate field.

• September 8, 2010

Iran has raised its gasoline output to attain self-sufficiency in the strategic product and foil sanctions targeting its energy needs, the state television’s website reported its oil minister as saying.

• September 8, 2010