An increase in drug trafficking in Southeast Asia's Golden Triangle has prompted police from the three Golden Triangle nations - Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand - along with China to join forces to make the area safe from its infamous drug trade. Surrounded by the waters of the Mekong River, the...


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AlJazeeraEnglishChina's growing military power, and the increasing nuclear threat from North Korea, has seen the US turn more of its attention toward Asia. Recent military exercises by the US and the Philippines in the South China Sea's disputed Spratly Islands have threatened to challenge the Asia-Pacific...


AlJazeeraEnglishThe global economic crisis has had at least one winner: discount airlines. Many passengers around the world now appear willing to sacrifice luxury for cheaper flights. The Asia-Pacific region, in particular, is where low-cost carriers are proving most popular and the number of people flying is...


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AlJazeeraEnglishAsia looks set to become the world's busiest market for air travel in a few years, as the US and Europe cut back on aviation. At the Singapore airshow, airlines have been on a shopping spree. Airbus has taken orders worth $1.3 trillion, and Boeing had good news too, signing its biggest...


AlJazeeraEnglishSoutheast Asia's Mekong River is home to one of the last populations of Irrawaddy dolphins, but they are now a critically endangered species. The number of dolphins has been fast dwindling in the past one decade; the population in the Mekong is probably less than 100 these days. The cause of the...


AlJazeeraEnglishSearch spokesman says no survivors found amid wreckage of Sukhoi plane that crashed in Indonesia with 45 people aboard.


AlJazeeraEnglishAfter the twin disasters of the earthquake and tsunami last year, city planners in Tokyo say they are aiming to rebuild the city so that it is safer and better protected from natural disasters.


AlJazeeraEnglishChina, along with three other Asian nations, has started co-ordinated patrols on the Mekong river in an effort to improve security in the increasingly violent area. Thailand, Myanmar and Laos have signed an agreement with Beijing to escort shipping vessels through the Golden Triangle, where the...


People across Asia and the western United States have been gazing at the skies to see the sun blotted out. An annular solar eclipse created a "ring of fire" around the moon when it reached its peak in the US late on Sunday local time. The eclipse generated much excitment in Tokyo, which has not...


AlJazeeraEnglishA senior US diplomat arrives in China, just days before a major visit by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, amid allegations that the US is harbouring an escaped Chinese rights activist. Kurt Campbell, the assistant US secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, was seen leaving a US...


AlJazeeraEnglishA farming village in the northern Philippines is forging a brighter future thanks to the sword-making skills of one man. Using recycled steel from trucks, hand-made leather and imported hide from a sting ray, Filomeno de Guzman, a former soldier, fashions hunting knives and sword replicas. His...


AlJazeeraEnglishAfter Saudi Arabia beheaded an Indonesian maid for murder last year, there was a national outcry in the East Asian nation. Now the Indonesian government is planning to stop sending maids abroad by 2017 amid reports that several maids are enduring abuse. Currently, more than 60 Indonesian workers...


AlJazeeraEnglish"You're the Man!" is a popular reality show in Cambodia which aims to teach contestants about HIV prevention. Its social message about AIDS in a traditionally conservative society has generated a lot of debate in the southeast Asian country. Al Jazeera's Stephanie Scawen reports from Phnom Penh,...


AlJazeeraEnglishAlcohol drinking has been on the rise in Australia, where bing drinking has correlated to violent acts that sometimes land people in the hospital. On average, almost 200 Australians every day are victims of alcohol-related assaults, and some blame t


AlJazeeraEnglishBlind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng has boarded a plane bound for the United States, closing a nearly month-long diplomatic tussle that had tested US-China relations. Chen, 40, his wife and their two children were on United Airlines Flight 88, which took off late on Saturday afternoon from...


AlJazeeraEnglishSouth Korea's in the midst of a jobs crisis. Despite being educated, a growing number of young people are still struggling to find work. Al Jazeera's Harry Fawcett reports from Seoul.


AlJazeeraEnglishAung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's opposition leader, has been sworn in as a member of parliament after nearly two decades of struggle against the powerful military.


Thanks to a new invention by university students in the Philippines, blind people may be able to use mobile phones with much more ease. Engineering students created a mobile phone for the visually impaired by putting a braille pad on the console to help them read and send text messages. One of...


AlJazeeraEnglishRescue workers have found bodies of those on board of jet which crashed into the slopes of Mount Salak volcano.


AlJazeeraEnglishAmid rising tension in the South China Sea, a US Navy Assault ship has sailed into Hong Kong. The visit is being described as routine but the ship's captain says he's ready to ensure peace in the region. Rob McBride reports from Hong Kong.


AlJazeeraEnglishAfghanistan is responsible for ninety per cent of the world's supply of heroin. Al Jazeera's Bernard Smith has been given exclusive access to a group of smugglers as they prepared to cross the border into Iran with a large delivery of heroin.


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