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 suicide of former president Roh Moo-hyun last week has spurred growing unrest and criticism of the current Lee administration.

Former South Korean President and human rights lawyer Roh Moo Hyun jumped off a mountain to his death Saturday, amidst allegations of bribery.

As North Korea launched it’s Taepodong-2 satellite on Sunday morning, US and South Korean leaders condemned the act and urged international stance but UN remains deadlocked about response.

North Korea's recently overtly belligerent behavior, including plans for a space launch, demonstrates increasing desperation according to analysts.

Pyongyang's intentions to conduct a space launch are questioned, US intelligence says differences between technology for a space launch and an intercontinental ballistic minimal.

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 ...