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.

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.

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.

Days after North Korea detonated an underground nuclear device and launched a series of short-range missiles, US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates met with his counterparts from Japan, South Korea and China to discuss how to collectively deal with the increasingly belligerent Stalinist state.

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.

US President Barack Obama has nominated a Republican governor of Utah with strong ties to China as ambassador, signaling the importance of improving relations with China above bipartisan politics. Jon Huntsman Jr. is known to be an advocate of strong trade relations with China, and has talked about the need ...

Renewable energy and environmental sectors in Asia are expected to boom as analysts predict green-related investments, like energy efficient power grids, will account for $272 billion, or 20 percent, of economic stimulus spending in Asia. Regional governments have sprinkled incentives for investment, particularly in solar and wind power industries. If ...

Hoping to increase its global news presence, the Chinese government has launched a new English language newspaper, The Global Times. An editorial in the first edition claims it "strive[s] to reveal a complete and true picture" of China, but the paper is published by state-owned People's Daily. The cover story ...

China flexed its economic muscle this week at the BOAO Forum for Asia, calling on global monetary diversification and pumping $10 billion into a China-ASEAN infrastructure investment fund. Some Chinese officials claim the economy has "touched bottom" and predict growth to reach 7 percent this quarter (Zheng Xinli), but in ...

A drop ease in figures for China's trade and South Korean growth have spurned optimism that markets may be bottoming out. Chinese exports in March fell 17 percent from last year, but the fall is significantly softer than February's 25.7 percent drop. South Korea's central bank said the economy managed ...