a un report says Asian countries should spend more on tackling aids or the disease may kill over 500,000 in the continent. The un commission on aids in Asia which submitted its report to the

deposits in Sanbao cave in Central China tell the story of the region's climate more than 200,000 years ago. They also reveal the working of the East Asian monsoon over timescales that range over

At around 5 p.m. on April 2, local police and officers from the Philippines National Bureau of Investigation descended on a four-story warehouse in suburban Manila. They were acting on a tip-off about possible illicit activity. But the agents weren't searching for drugs or knockoff Rolexes. They were looking for rice.

Asian nations should make joint efforts to deal with the pressing problems of climate change and resource shortage when energy demands keep rising as the continent becomes an important driver of the world economy, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said. Addressing the opening ceremony of the BOAO Forum for Asia (BFA) annual conference on Saturday in China's Hainan Province, Rajapaksa said the forum played a key role for Asian countries to reach consensus on global problems such as climate change, terrorism and drug trafficking.

wheat fungi may have reached pakistan: A fungus, deadly for wheat, may have reached Pakistan two years earlier than predicted, said researchers at a recent meeting in Syria. The meeting was to