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

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.

Asian currencies strengthened this week following an announcement that American banks could stand without government buyout, and optimism about new Chinese and Japanese stimulus packages.

Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) to give unified statement against trade protectionism at a summit next week, and will discuss details of a regional foreign reserve fund pool. Finance ministers in the Asia region are holding bilateral talks in the lead up, showing strategic cooperation to prevent trade protectionism.

Hillary Clinton will travel to Asia on Sunday for her first trip abroad as U.S. Secretary of State, in a diplomatic gesture that shows a shift of priorities in American foreign policy. Speaking at the Asia Society in New York on Friday Clinton announced the Asian region would be a ...

Prime Minister Taro Aso announced Japan would pledge over $17 billion in aid to help Asian countries cope with the global financial crisis in an address Saturday at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. This move is a break from former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi's vow ...