India has planned to recruit and deployed another 100,000 troops along the disputed borders with China and the Chinese southwestern Tibet. The troop increase will come over the next five years, as part of a $13 billion modernisation programme that will mark the largest expansion of the Indian army throughout the sub-continental country’s 60-year history, a Chinese scholar has reported in state media. Earlier... 

Protesters chant slogans during a protest march to the US Embassy in Manila on Tuesday Nov. 15, 2011. One hundred Filipino protesters have rallied in the capital, Manila, to show their objection to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to the Philippines. Protesters began their rally in Plaza Salamanca on Tuesday. Clinton arrived in Manila to mark the 60th anniversary of the signing of... 

Malaysian activists are preparing to hold a symbolic trial against former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and former US President George W. Bush for alleged war crimes related to the Iraq War. The initiative is led by the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal, established by Malaysia’s retired Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, a vocal critic of the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. The tribunal,... 

President Obama's call for tougher action on Iran at the Hawaii summit went largely ignored by China and Russia US president fails to win support from Hu and Medvedev at APEC summit as he seeks to rein back Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Barack Obama’s push for consensus over renewed concerns about Iran’s nuclear programme have had a lukewarm response from the Russian and Chinese leaders... 

Yaeba-tastic: Child-like, crooked smiles are a hot trend in Japan, where the looked is known as 'yaeba' Perfect teeth – white, straight and evenly aligned – may be the ideal in America, but that aesthetic is not for everyone. Japanese women are going gaga for a crowded, crooked-toothed smile with accentuated canine teeth, known as the ‘yaeba’ look. Popular at dentists... 

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei Chinese Foreign Ministry has rejected the idea of imposing additional sanctions against Iran, calling for further dialogue to resolve concerns around the Islamic Republic’s nuclear issue. “We always believe that dialogue and cooperation is the right way to solve the Iranian nuclear issue,” said China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei... 

The Iranian nuclear power plant in Bushehr, southern Iran - a site that may be targeted in a mooted military strike. Russia and China have expressed growing concern about a possible American military strike against Iran over its nuclear programme. And this week the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is to publish a damning report with ‘compelling evidence’ that Iran is secretly building... 

People walk through the flooded streets in Lat Phrao shopping and business district in Bangkok, Thailand, on November 5, 2011. The death toll from Thailand’s worst flooding in half a century reached 506 Sunday as floodwaters inched toward downtown Bangkok, the interior ministry said. By Sunday, authorities had ordered evacuations for residents in 11 of Bangkok’s 50 districts. As water crept... 

After cooperating with Vietnam, the US conduced military exercises again in the South China Sea between October 17 to 28, this time with the Philippines. As usual, the two countries announced that the exercises weren’t aimed at China. I think this kind of military exercise is meaningless, as the small countries are just being over-confident in their ability to provoke China and the US ultimately... 

West to East: EU officials have been refused help by China as the balance of power shifts. Hopes that China will ride to the rescue of the single currency were dealt a blow last night after Beijing warned that it will not be Europe’s ‘saviour’. State-run news agency Xinhua said the country cannot ‘provide a cure for the European malaise’. It came after European officials begged China for... 

The UN has warned world population could reach 15 billion by 2100, adding pressure to crowded cities such as New Delhi. Nearly 7 billion people now inhabit planet but projections that number will double this century have shocked academics. The United Nations will warn this week that the world’s population could more than double to 15 billion by the end of this century, putting a catastrophic... 

Fatal: The truck that killed her five-year-old Xiong Maoke After the tragedy of Yue Yue, the Chinese trucker who hit a boy… then ran over him again to be sure he’d died ‘because it was cheaper than paying the hospital bills’. A lorry driver ran over a five-year-old boy – and then reversed over him to make sure he was dead in an apparent attempt to avoid footing hospital bills... 

Thailand’s Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has warned Bangkok residents of more flooding, saying that the nation’s current situation could continue for another six weeks. The prime minister’s remarks come as efforts to drain billions of cubic meters of water to the sea through rivers and canals are underway, AFP reported. “Bangkok must open all floodgates to allow the water through,”... 

Yue Yue was left with horrific brain injuries following the accident and she never recovered. Two-year-old Yueyue, who was run over by two vans in southern China and ignored by several passersby, has died. A severely injured Chinese toddler has died one week after she was run over by two vans. The plight of the two-year-old girl, nicknamed Yueyue, was ignored by passersby only to grab the attention... 

Unaware: Video footage shows the little girl crossing the road at Guangfo Hardware Market, without spotting the van approaching Video footage of a two-year-old girl being run over by a van and ignored by passers-by in China has sparked outrage after being posted online. The graphic surveillance video of the incident in Foshan city, Guandong province, shows the girl run over by a van, which then drives...