Japan's Emperor Akihito marks 84th birthday, pledging to fulfill his duties until the day of his abdication in 2019...

The Philippine president has declared a Christmas truce with communist guerrillas and urges them to replicate the goodwill gesture after recently scrapping peace talks with the insurgents and declarin...

AP PHOTOS: Skillfully crafted giant lanterns are lighting up the Christmas spirit in the Philippines, with 10 villages in Pampanga province taking part in an annual giant lantern competition, proudly ...

The U.S. Navy says it will deploy deep water salvage experts to search for a transport aircraft that crashed in the western Pacific last month, killing three sailors...

Japan's palace has announced that Japanese Emperor Akihito's oldest grandchild, Princess Mako, is getting married to her university classmate...

South Korea has urged North Korea to accept its offers for talks as Pyongyang continues to ignore Seoul's proposal for a military meeting to ease animosities along their tense border...

South Korea has offered to talk with North Korea to ease animosities along their tense border and resume reunions of families separated by their war in the 1950s...

South Korea's president reiterated he's willing to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un even as he condemned as reckless the North's first ICBM test-launch this week...

South Korea's president seeks talks with North Korea's Kim Jong Un amid standoff over North Korea's ICBM launch...

China's national health authority says an outbreak of bird flu killed 79 people around the country in January, the highest monthly death toll from the H7N9 strain in at least three years...