A new government campaign in Laos is targeting HIV/Aids high risk group of transgender males called Katheoys.

Under the guise of cleaning the Internet, the government suspended Google's Chinese portal for linking to pornographic sites, and implemented regulation requiring computers sold after July 1 contain Internet filters.

The Japanese government has announced its intentions to follow the US lead and become a member of the new intergovernmental renewable energy agency IRENA.

Western calls for human rights in Myanmar fall on deaf ears while Asian money talks. As Western countries continue to impose trade sanctions on Myanmar and press for the release of Nobel prize winning Aung Sun Suu Kyi, Asian countries have jumped in to trade with the military junta.

The US Navy is monitoring a North Korean shipping vessel suspected of carrying missile parts towards Myanmar, heightening tension days after the UN imposed financial sanctions on the Stalinist state.

Hanoi voiced its concern about increased Chinese naval patrols in the South China Sea, and extension of a fishing ban which Vietnam argues is a violation of its territorial rights.

The Hong Kong government has announced plans to spend US $ 90 million on H1N1 flu vaccines,  available by October this year, to vaccinate 2.5 million people for free. The aim is to cover all private and public health care workers, young children, seniors and patients with high risk of ...

All eyes were one China at the Spring meeting for the International Institute of Finance this week in Beijing.

Chinese leaders this week highlighted praise for green policies from visiting US climate change envoy Todd Stern while upping the ante on solar and wind power by pledging to reach the European target for 2020 in solar and wind power.

As North Korea continues to spew provocative threats, members of the UN security council and regional allies are responding with increasingly less tolerance.