Australia braced for a rapidly rising death toll Tuesday after flash floods killed eight and left 72 missing, as a quickly spreading flood disaster forced evacuations in central Brisbane.
The President of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations received a delegation of 13 professors, and experts from New York University on an official visit to Vietnam.
Japan said it was ready to buy bonds to be issued by the European Financial Stability Facility to help finance Ireland's bailout and support the debt-hit eurozone, report said.
Britain and China signed trade deals worth 2.6 billion pounds Monday and announced Beijing will loan a pair of giant pandas to Edinburgh Zoo for 10 years.
South Korea confirmed three new cases of bird flu as the outbreak that began further hits farmers who are battling the nation's worst-ever outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.
Authorities in the central Nghe An Province are trying to persuade a local fisherman to release a giant endangered green turtle he caught last Monday back into the sea.
China's famed Shaolin Temple has set up over 40 companies overseas as it hopes to spread Buddhist-inspired martial arts around the globe, state press reported.
The 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam will open on Jan. 2, discussing important issues and electing the Central Committee for 11 th tenure.
Slick touchscreen tablet computers and smarter devices for the home and the car took center stage as the Consumer Electronics Show wrapped up on Sunday.