Eurasia Group, which released the top then risks of the year 2010 sites U.S. China hostility as the number one risk for this year. The mains reasons are the U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, meeting with Dalai Lama and the growing economic disputes and the protectionism in the United States. The think tank warned that this year the trade disputes will further deteriorate the relations between U.S. and China making it the largest geopolitical risk of the 2010.

Our Lady of Guadalupe is regarded as Mexico's most popular religious and cultural image. On Saturday, a ceramic mosaic of Our Lady of Guadalupe, will be inaugurated in Taipei, Taiwan.

Imagine the pressure of working on Apple products, not just in terms development but also in terms of secrecy. Imagine what that did to Foxconn employee Sun Danyong, 25, who committed suicide last week after a prototype model of a fourth-generation iPhone he was looking after went missing.

Taiwan has arrested former president Chen Shui-bian on charges of money laundering, embezzling government funds, taking bribes and forging documents. Television coverage showed him shouting "political persecution" while being led away in handcuffs.

A death during one of those eating contests? Sounds like something you might see on TV. Too be honest, it's been done, on CSI. In that case, the death was accidental, meaning he just ate himself to death. But it was because he had a rare disease, Prader-Willi Syndrome, a genetic disorder that causes insatiable hunger in people.

Dr Szu-Yao (Zoe) Wang, who recently completed her PhD with UQ's School of Nursing, found that in Taiwan, where the culture dictates that children should care for their parents, aged-care facilities are becoming more popular.

More than a quarter of a million women have been sold as wives and baby-makers in South East Asia, but they are getting a raw deal in health care and social inclusion.

China on Sunday called on the United States to keep its promise on the Taiwan issue and to safeguard peace and stability across the Taiwan Straits and the sound development of the China-U.S. ties.

Opposition candidate Ma Ying-Jeou surged to victory in Taiwan's presidential election today with an unassailable lead in the vote count, TV stations reported.

The current Tibet rebellion was launched by young monks in Lhasa in coordination with five groups of exiles in India. These groups are sponsored by the U.S. government via the National Endowment for Democracy and other 'western' institutions.

Prison sentences handed down to counterfeiters by a Taipei, Taiwan, court mark the end of a string of successful prosecutions by international law enforcement agencies, bringing a global software counterfeiting ring to a final halt.