Japan reimposed a ban on US beef, just one month after it was lifted under intense pressure, after a beef shipment was suspected of violating safety rules against mad cow disease. The Health Ministry

New York Warning that misuse of the most promising new malaria drug could create an incurable strain of the disease, the new chief of the World Health Organization's malaria program has demanded that

William Clay Ford Jr., chairman of Ford Motor, stares out from the television screen and pledges that the automaker is "dramatically ramping up its commitment" to environmentally safer cars like

The ban in Jakarta, which applies only in the capital, is the first attempt to curb smoking in the world's fifth-largest tobacco market. Health officials say it will have no effect and that only

A Chinese government environmental review has recommended reducing the number of dams included in a hydropower proposal on the Nu River in southwestern China to limit environmental damage and

The United States and Australia pledged a combined $127 million to an Asia Pacific plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by promoting renewable energy sources and cleaner ways to use coal. But

Two recent chemical pills have forced officials in different regions of China to take emergency precautions to protect water supplies for millions of people - the latest examples of the environmental

As the "not in my back yard" phenomenon spreads in China, policy makers there have woken up to the fact that the destruction of the environment has been so severe that, unless something gives, the

What's remarkable about the controversy surrounding Coca-Cola and Pepsi in India - where an environmental group has alleged that the soft drinks contain unacceptably high levels of pesticides and

The Chinese government plans to spend 1 trillion yuan by 2010 to build waste-water treatment plants and upgrade water distribution systems around China, the Ministry of Construction said. Of that