Singapore's former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew said that the city started 'completely wrong' in Chinese language learning, admitting that it is a mistake to teach Chinese by enforcing rote learning.

A U.S. soldier suspected of being involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident in Japan's southern island of Okinawa has refused further questioning by Japanese police, a U.S. Army officer and Japanese police said Thursday.

Activists renewed their demands Thursday for an investigation into the way Malaysian authorities treat Indian minorities following the death of a woman who committed suicide after police fatally shot her brother.

Treated to friendly roadside crowds and an elaborate welcome, President Barack Obama sped into the last round of his diplomacy tour in Asia on Thursday, a visit in South Korea.

Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai promised Thursday to prosecute corrupt government officials and end a culture of impunity, speaking during an inauguration closely watched by the international community for signs that his administration is moving beyond the cronyism and graft of the past five years.

A suicide bomber killed 19 people Thursday outside a courthouse in northwestern Pakistan, the latest attack in an onslaught by Islamist militants fighting back against an army offensive in the nearby Afghan border region.

The Supreme Court rejected final appeals Thursday by five former soldiers sentenced to death in the 1975 killing of Bangladesh's independence leader in a military coup, a government attorney said.

A Bangladeshi toddler separated this week from her conjoined twin sister was talking and behaving normally Thursday after waking from a medically induced coma, the head of the surgery team said.

Most Afghans see not Taliban militants but poverty, unemployment and government corruption as the main causes of war in their country, according to a report by a leading aid group released on Wednesday.

U.S. President Barack Obama arrived in South Korea on Wednesday for talks that will focus on how to tempt North Korea back to nuclear disarmament talks and a delayed trade pact between Seoul and Washington.