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Scores of divers searched a capsized ship in the Yangtze River on Wednesday for more than 400 missing people, many of them elderly tourists, as the(...)

Divers have pulled two people alive from inside a capsized cruise ship in China and are preparing to rescue at least four more, state broadcaster CCTV(...)

Solar Impulse 2 makes unscheduled stop in Japan
- Asia-Pacific
- June 1, 2015, 11:37
A solar plane attempting to fly around the world without a drop of fuel is making an unscheduled stop in Japan due to bad weather. The Swiss pilot of (...)

For Japan’s leader, sorry seems to be the hardest word
- Asia-Pacific
- May 1, 2015, 14:24
Japan’s prime minister Shinzo Abe returns home this weekend from a United States tour with his political fortunes elevated – at least abroad. The tou(...)

US firebombing of Tokyo which killed 100,000 remains a raw memory
- Asia-Pacific
- March 10, 2015, 01:00
It was just after midnight when the rumble of US B-29 bombers jolted Tokyo awake. The incendiaries that fell from their bellies, full of jellied petro(...)

China Today: Beijing’s problematic relationships
- Asia-Pacific
- December 2, 2014, 01:01
From nearly 450m high, near the top of the Intercontinental hotel in the former capital Nanjing, you can look down on the eastern Chinese city’s ancie(...)

President Higgins visit: the challenges facing today’s China
- Asia-Pacific
- December 1, 2014, 01:00
Thousands of Chinese tourists are walking through the grounds of Prince Gong Mansion, an elegant palace in downtown Beijing, some of them youngsters d(...)

Little trouble in big China
- Asia-Pacific
- October 4, 2014, 01:00
What’s cooking in China? Only the greatest realignment of effort in human history. At the downhill end of Castle Street in the Co Limerick village of (...)

Chinese officials in Ireland for government training
- Economy
- July 22, 2014, 01:00
A group of government officials, leading Communist Party cadres and executives from state-owned enterprises from Shanghai, Suzhou, Nanjing and Beijing(...)

Sanpower eyes House of Fraser overseas push
- Retail & Services
- May 5, 2014, 01:00
Sanpower chairman Yuan Yafei plans to bring House of Fraser to Russia and the Middle East following his company’s takeover of the UK department store (...)