Xi Jinping was elected general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee at the first plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee on Thursday morning.

The ninth ASEAN Business and Investment Summit (ASEAN-BIS) will take place in Phnom Penh soon, expecting to attract a record 1,000 participants, according to a press release of the ASEAN Secretariat.

A powerful earthquake that struck Myanmar at the weekend has left 38 people dead or missing, the Red Cross said Tuesday as a new tremor rattled the government's showpiece capital Naypyidaw.

North Korea's staple food output has improved but the poverty-stricken country is still struggling to eradicate malnutrition and provide its people with vital protein, UN agencies said Tuesday.

A major earthquake measuring 6.6 magnitude struck central Myanmar on Sunday, around 60 km (37 miles) northwest of the city of Mandalay, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

 Putin removed General Nikolai Makarov as his top general and replaced him with General Valery Gerasimov, the commander of Russia's forces in the central military district who has served in the turbulent Chechnya region. Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) speaks with newly appointed armed forces Chief-of-Staff Valery Gerasimov (L) and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu during their meeting in Moscow's Kremlin November 9, 2012.

New York City drivers will wake up on Friday to the first widespread gas rationing since the fuel crisis of the 1970s, as the U.S. Northeast struggles to recover from the devastation of Superstorm Sandy and a subsequent snowstorm.

Barack Obama and Mitt Romney made their final cases to Americans on election eve Monday, capping a grueling, negative, multi-billion dollar campaign and handing their fates to voters.

President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney made late pitches in the political battlegrounds of the upper Midwest on Friday, a region likely to decide the winner in next week's closely fought election for the White House.

Damage from the deadly mega-storm that blasted the US East Coast could hit $50 billion, disaster estimator Eqecat said Tuesday.

The forthcoming 21 st ASEAN Summit will promote the ASEAN integration process and strengthen the bloc's central role in the region’s social architecture and economy, Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen has said.