Regulators have ordered Chinese Web sites to limit the use of "virtual money" after concerns that online credits might be used for money laundering or illicit trade.

The order governing credits sold by Web sites to customers to pay for online games and other services comes amid a campaign to tighten official control over China's online industry.

The most popular Chinese online cred...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stirred anger in China, Taiwan and South Korea with remarks last week appearing to question the state's role in forcing the mostly Asian women to act as prostitutes during World War Two, although he also said the earlier apology stood.

The apology, known as the "Kono Statement" after then-chief cabinet secretary Yohei Kono, in whose name it was issued, acknowled...

NEW YORK — The United States and North Korea began landmark talks on establishing diplomatic relations, but a State Department official cautioned against high expectations during this week's meetings.

North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill met for four hours Monday for talks and dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in N...

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The United States and North Korea began landmark talks on establishing diplomatic relations, but a State Department official cautioned against high expectations during this week's meetings.

North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill met for four hours Monday for talks and dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. They lef...

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Kim and Hill are to meet again Tuesday amid rising expectations of improved U.S. relations with a country President Bush called part of an "axis of evil" five years ago, along with Iran and prewar Iraq.

This is the first U.S. visit by Kim, North Korea's top nuclear negotiator, since the international standoff over the North's nuclear ambitions flared in late 2002.

Under an agreeme...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told parliament on Monday that he would not apologize for women who were forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II, even if called on to do so by a US Congress resolution, according to the local media.

"I must say we will not apologise even if there's a [US] resolution," Abe, the first premier born after the war, told...

Even after 62 years, Grant Goodman, a retired Kansas University history professor, still is involved in a World War II-era Japanese dispute.

On Friday, nationalist Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe denied that the Japanese Imperialist Army ever owned and operated military brothels, or “comfort stations,” during World War II and questioned the nation’s public apology made 14 years a...

Army Secretary Francis Harvey stepped down Friday amid widening complaints about squalid conditions for outpatients at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, a primary facility for treating troops injured in the Iraq war. President Bush ordered a comprehensive investigation into conditions first reported by The Washington Post. The Army on Thursday announced that Maj. Gen. George W. Weightman, hospit...