Tianjin, China (CNN)You can see the devastation everywhere: in the hollowed out shells of barely-standing buildings, in the anguished faces of relatives waiting for news of loved ones, in the parade of scorched cars.
China's Central Bank has again cut the guiding rate for the national currency, the yuan, a day after Tuesday's record 1.9% devaluation.
The People's Bank of China allowed the yuan to depreciate by nearly 2% against the U.S. dollar on Tuesday, the result of a surprise policy change that roiled international currency markets.
At least eight people have been killed and about 400 injured by a powerful car bomb in the Afghan capital Kabul early on Friday morning, health officials have told the BBC.
North Korea is to switch to a new time zone to mark its liberation from the Japanese at the end of World War Two, says state media.
A young woman in Hong Kong has been sentenced to jail for three and a half months for assaulting a senior police officer with her breast during a protest over cross-border trading, the South China Morning Post reports.
The leader of the Afghan Taliban, Mullah Mohammed Omar, has died, Afghan officials say, but the militant group has not commented on the claim.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has sacked his deputy in a cabinet reshuffle after Muhyiddin Yassin had called on the leader to explain a growing corruption scandal at debt-laden state investment fund 1MDB.
Three people were killed as a light plane crashed in Japan, setting fire to several houses, local media say.
Seoul (CNN) An employee of South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS) has been found dead alongside a suicide note apologizing for "causing controversy," according to South Korean police.
(CNN) Chinese authorities have arrested a former presidential aide in a corruption investigation after expelling him from the ruling Communist Party, the government announced Monday.
One blind policeman has managed to keep his home town in southern China crime-free for more than a decade.
Same-sex marriage isn't legal in China, but that didn't deter Li Tingting and her partner Teresa Xu.
Some 800 tonnes of smuggled frozen meat have been seized by Chinese authorities, including one batch dating from the 1970s, state media reported.
Despite a ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) last year that the practice is illegal, after a twelve-month hiatus Japan is set to resume its annual whale hunt in Antarctic waters this December. Friday marked the third time in fifteen months that experts have concluded that the hunt has no basis in science.
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