Hanoi- Vietnam, a country with a large underground trade in farming bears for bile and meat, has opened its first bear rescue centre, an official said Tuesday.

Harare/Johannesburg - They arrived in the dead of Monday night - around 100 of them - outside a white-owned tobacco farm near the Zimbabwean capital Harare, kicking at the gate and singing Chimuren

Johannesburg/Harare- Seven employees of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission were due to appear in court later Tuesday on charges of fraud and criminal abuse of duty for allegedly deflating the vote o

Beijing- Eleven foreign journalists are scheduled to depart Tuesday for an area in western China that saw pro-Tibetan riots in recent weeks on a tour organized by China's Foreign Ministry.

Manila - A publisher and columnist of a small community newspaper was killed by a lone gunman in the Philippine capital, a police report said Tuesday.