Beijing (AFP) Jul 24, 2006 - The president and vice chairman of state-owned China Construction Bank (CCB), Chang Zhenming, has resigned and is to join another important state investment group, the bank said Monday.
Tokyo (AFP) Jul 24, 2006 - Japan plans to tighten rules on companies that do business with North Korea in its latest measure to pressure the communist state after its missile tests, a newspaper said Monday.
Beijing (AFP) Jul 24, 2006 - China's southern boomtown of Guangzhou will begin offering rail services to Lhasa following this month's opening of the historic railway to the Tibetan capital, state press reported Monday.
Taipei (AFP) Jul 24, 2006 - Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp, one of Taiwan's leading flat panel display makers, said Monday it will invest 30 million US dollars to build a thin-film-transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) module plant in China's Guangdong province.
Muzffarabad, Pakistan (AFP) Jul 24, 2006 - Twelve people who survived last year's earthquake in Pakistani Kashmir were killed in a landslide at a camp early Monday, officials said.
Hong Kong (AFP) Jul 24, 2006 - Las Vegas Sands will double its investment in casinos in Macau, spending more than eight billion dollars there and on a neighboring island over the next four to six years, a report said Monday.
Beijing (AFP) Jul 24, 2006 - China and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have completed a round of talks on a free trade agreement as part of Beijing's efforts to secure long-term supplies of oil, state press reported Monday.
Beijing (AFP) Jul 24, 2006 - China intends to launch a satellite aimed at developing super space-enhanced fruit, vegetables and other crops, as it seeks ways to expand the nation's food production, state press said Monday.
Hanoi (AFP) Jul 24, 2006 - The World Bank and Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Vietnam announced projects Monday worth a total of nearly 100 million dollars to fight HIV/AIDS and improve health care in the southern Mekong delta.
Pangandaran, Indonesia (AFP) Jul 24, 2006 - Schools along the tsunami-hit coast of Indonesia's Java island reopened Monday as many traumatised pupils attended without uniforms or equipment lost to the waves, officials said.
Taipei (AFP) Jul 24, 2006 - Taiwan braced for strong winds and torrential rains Monday when Typhoon Kaemi was due to swipe the island, the Central Weather Bureau said.
Sydney (AFP) Jul 24, 2006 - Australian opposition leader Kim Beazley on Monday proposed scrapping his party's long-standing policy of blocking new uranium mines -- a U-turn that could pave the way for a significant increase in production.
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Jul 24, 2006 - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the North Korean foreign minister will both attend an Asian forum this week amid tensions over Pyongyang's missile tests, officials confirmed Monday.
Beijing (AFP) Jul 24, 2006 - The former transport head of an eastern Chinese province has been jailed for 20 years for giving and taking nearly 3.2 million yuan (400,000 dollars) in bribes, state press said Monday.
Tokyo (AFP) Jul 24, 2006 - For those who relish looking back on the small, often inconsequential details of their lives, a Japanese company has come up with a Big Brother mobile network that makes up where human memory fails.
Harare (AFP) Jul 24, 2006 - Zimbabwe has suspended the sale of its stockpile of nine tonnes of ivory to dealers for as long as no proper monitoring system has been put in place, officials said Monday.
