Thursday, 24 May 2012 08:09
Aung San Suu Kyi will be visiting Thailand next week on her first trip abroad in more than two decades, her party has said.
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Aung San Suu Kyi will be visiting Thailand next week on her first trip abroad in more than two decades, her party has said.

Renato Corona, the Philippines' chief justice, has been rushed to the hospital after he walked out of his own impeachment trial in the senate, his spokesman has said.

A senior Philippine judge accused of protecting former President Gloria Arroyo from prosecution on corruption charges has testified at his impeachment trial.

Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has been charged for his part in a rally for fair elections last month, in a case he denounced as another government attempt to remove him from politics.

Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim will be charged over an April protest demanding fair elections, his lawyer says, accusing the government of a fresh bid to remove Anwar from politics.

Ma Ying-jeou, Taiwan's incumbent president who was re-elected in January, has been sworn into office for a second four-year term.

At least 20 road construction workers have been killed in a blast while working inside a tunnel in central China, officials said.

South Korea's largest Buddhist order, the Jogye, is in crisis after allegations of serious wrongdoing by a number of its monks.

Blind 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.

A Chinese court has handed a sentence of life in jail to the boss of a huge smuggling and bribery scam who was at the centre of a lengthy deportation battle with Canada, state media has said.
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