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Dow Jones & Co. will stop publishing the Far Eastern Economic Review in December.
A fast-growing kelp from the Far East has spread along the California coast from Los Angeles to San Francisco Bay, worrying marine scientists and outpacing eradication efforts.
U.S. officials say there are new signs North Korea may be planning even more missile launches in a show of strength following worldwide condemnation of its underground nuclear test.
Riot police clubbed, kicked and detained dozens in the Pacific port of Vladivostok on Sunday in a harsh crackdown on a protest that was one of dozens across Russia by people outraged over an increase in car import tariffs.
Russian, U.S. and South Korean activists are appealing to the South Korean government and oil companies to withdraw from a project prospecting for oil near the isolated Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia's Far East.
The Russian air force says one of its fighter jets has blown up in flight near the Far East city of Vladivostok and the pilot has been killed.
After eight years of rule that saw Russia's influence and wealth grow while its democratic freedoms shrank, voters in the Far East were the first in this vast nation to cast their ballots Sunday for President Vladimir Putin's successor.
Historical Parallels & IntersectionsIn the United States, in the autumn of 2008, the Presidential election was decided on the hoopla of hope and change drenched in hyperbolic rhetoric which effectively drowned journalistic decorum to maintain any pretence at integrity.
Vladimir Putin threatens Europe over energy supplyVladimir Putin has warned Europe that Russia's energy reserves will flow to the Far East if the continent's leaders seek to punish his country for invading Georgia.
Asia Stocks Follow Dow's Decline; Europe Is SteadyThe Nikkei and Hang Seng indexes were down sharply amid fears about shrinking consumption in the U.S.
Pacific Islanders' Ancestry Emerges in Genetic StudyAn international team of scientists found evidence that Polynesians and Micronesians were more closely related to East Asians, and had few links to western Pacific islanders.
To Some, the Widening Crisis Seems Driven by Fear, Not FactsWhat makes the current correction dangerous, analysts say, is that selling is being driven by hedge funds and investment banks, not panicky retail investors.
Stocks Plunge in Europe and Asia on U.S. Recession FearIndexes in Europe fell as much as 7 percent after a huge sell-off in Asia as concerns increased that the turmoil in the United States mortgage markets is spreading.
An Oil Quandary: Costly Fuel Means Costly CaloriesAcross the globe, huge demand for biofuels has created tension between using land to produce fuel and using it for food.
How Britain put Nazis' top men to workThe German scientific estabslihent of WW2 represented the greatest treasure that the Axis forces had, a treasure that was plundered by the British (and the US of course) after the defeat of the Nazis.
Bomb by Bomb, Japan Sheds Military RestraintsJapan is blurring the line between defensive and offensive military power in spite of its pacifist Constitution, rattling nerves in northeast Asia.
Rise in World Oil Use and a Possible Shortage of Supplies Are Seen in the Next 5 YearsA new report says that pressures on fuel supplies are growing, in part, because booming Asian economies are using more fuel to power their manufacturing industries.
Likely Spread of Deserts to Fertile Land Requires Quick Response, U.N. Report SaysEnough fertile land could turn into desert in the next generation to create an "environmental crisis of global proportions."
Chinese hospitals used fake dripsChinese investigators say nearly 60 hospitals and pharmacies in north-eastern China have been using fake blood protein in patients' drips. Albumin, or plasma protein, is used to treat patients suffering from shock and burns and during open-heart surgery.
Fans Sour on Sweeter Version of Asia's Smelliest FruitThere is probably no other fruit that elicits such passion — and revulsion — as the durian, possibly the world's smelliest fruit.
Hotels & Resorts spreads wings to Far EastThis is a significant move into the Far East for IFA Hotels & Resorts who recently acquired two residential buildings that sit on 700,000 sq. mtr. of beach front in Pine Cliffs Residence, the prime tourist resort of the Algarve, Portugal for US$ 35 million.
Asia Scrambles to Repair Quake Damage to Data CablesOfficials warned that it could take several more days before Internet access across much of Asia returned to normal.
Asian Quake Disrupts Data TrafficThe quake disrupted telecommunications across Asia and a ripple effect was felt in other parts of the world. Telecommunications across Asia were disrupted on Wednesday after an earthquake off Taiwan damaged undersea cables, jamming Internet services as voice and data traffic vie …
The War on Lebanon and the Battle for OilIs there a relationship between the bombing of Lebanon and the inauguration of the World's largest strategic pipeline, which will channel more a million barrels of oil a day to Western markets?
Telegraph | News | A temporary defectionwhy people interested in china should also follow korea
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