Asia-Pacific leaders warn of water conflict threat
Fierce competition for water could trigger conflict unless nations cooperate to share the diminishing resource, leaders from Asia-Pacific nations warned Monday.
Fierce competition for water could trigger conflict unless nations cooperate to share the diminishing resource, leaders from Asia-Pacific nations warned Monday.
Asian countries on Thursday urged renewed vigilance against a spread of H7N9 bird flu after Taiwan reported a case of the deadly strain, the world’s first outside mainland China.
Catholics in Asia and other parts of the world where the Roman Catholic Church is growing fast would dearly like to see the cardinals choose an Asian pope for the first time in history when they begin meeting on Tuesday to select a successor to Benedict XVI.
Smuggling the world’s largest land animal across an international border sounds like a mammoth undertaking, but activists say that does not stop traffickers supplying Asian elephants to Thai tourist attractions.
Asia has more billionaires than any other continent, followed by North America and Europe, according to a survey by a China-based wealth magazine released on Thursday.
A concrete truck slammed on Monday into a bus transporting workers near Al-Ain city in the UAE, killing 22 of them and wounding 24 others, police said.
The Philippines was among Asian countries worst-hit by disasters in 2012, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) said.
An Afghan police official says an Afghan policewoman has killed an American adviser at the Kabul police headquarters.
East Asia scores well when it comes to keeping a lid on crime, but it still has work to do on other key factors that constitute the rule of law, a study published Wednesday suggests.
People living in the tropics are likely to die more than seven years younger than those in other regions, according to the first findings of a global research project released Monday.
President Barack Obama, in his first trip abroad since the summer heat of the re-election campaign, seeks to reinforce American influence in Southeast Asia in spite of the large shadow cast by China. He will become the first US president to visit Myanmar, an appreciation for its steps toward democratization, as well as Cambodia.
Months of sharp behind-the-scenes jostling reach a climax Thursday with the announcement of a new Chinese leadership that almost regardless of its makeup is likely to be much like the one it replaces: divided, deliberative and weak.
Every Australian school will be partnered online with one in Asia by 2025 as regional languages become “central” to education reform plans, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Monday.
