This tiny Asian nation, still struggling to gain a secure economic foothold, is pressing ahead with its first oil refinery which has already become a centre of controversy. Work on the us $1.2

Malaysia, the country that hopes to be the home of latest multimedia technology, is currently advising its people to "return to the soil'. Threatened by a looming economic crisis, Malaysia plans to

Twenty-two Congressmen on Friday asked the Clinton adminstration to impose "tough economic sanction" against India if it did not allow the Amnesty International and other human rights watch groups to

The World Bank has embarked on a new poverty alleviation programme that reaffirms its target of reducing the number of poor by 50 per cent by the year

A proposed power generation project in Laos has become the target of environmentalists ire

The panel appointed by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) to frame regulations for plantation schemes is planning to segregate the schemes into deposit and collective investment

The first private sector thermal power plant was commissioned recently in Colombo with the help of the government which added an additional 22.5 MW of power to Sri Lanka's national grid. Such efforts

India is likely to ask for the maximum time permissible for 15 months for putting in place the patent protection mechanisms required by the World Trade Organisation. As the WTO's appellate body has

India will receive a 200 million dollar grant from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for aiding its Ninth Plan objectives on infrastructure, technology and

India will receive a $200 million grant from the United Nations Development Programme for aiding its ninth plan objectives on infrastructure technology and employment . The grant, which will come