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.

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.

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.

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.

The world's number two and three economies Japan and China met Sunday in a rare show of bilateral cooperation to boost global economic lag. The two rivaling countries agreed to cooperate in 11 areas including agriculture, environment, technology, aid and energy saving policies.

China has drafted rules for tighter control of gas mileage to improve fuel economy 18 percent, or 42.2 miles per gallon, by 2015, demonstrating tougher rules than recently announced American gas mileage standards.

Two government bodies have drafted a list of mandatory environmental measures for Chinese outbound investment, state media reported last week.

The 15-member Taiwan delegation arrived in Geneva for the World Health Assembly over the weekend, the first time the island has participated in 38 years. This comes just a week after 100,000 Taiwanese protested President Ma Ying-jeou's China friendly policies.