Thailand aims to revive a long-stalled plan to become an oil trading and biofuel hub in Southeast Asia, challenging Singapore's dominance, its new energy minister said on Thursday.

Japanese and South Korean companies have won the highest marks in Asia for “responsible” investing, which remains in its infancy in these countries, in a new survey by Eiris, an environmental resea

A civic group in Seoul on Wednesday protested the use of dirt containing asbestos in ballparks and high school sports grounds.

Meetings between the chief nuclear envoys of North and South Korea were “constructive,” negotiators said, even though the talks did not produce any breakthroughs on the longstanding impasse over th

The top nuclear negotiators from North and South Korea plan to meet next week in Beijing to discuss terms of restarting the long-stalled six-nation talks aimed at ending North Korea’s nuclear weapo

The next logical step for South Korea is to ask India for a nuclear park site. “We have not yet reached that stage. They are yet to ask us for a site, though Kepco and the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for cooperation. The South Korean Foreign Minister will come in the second half of this year. There could be talks on this aspect too,” the sources said.

Land acquisition overseas for farming could soon become a reality. The agriculture ministry plans to announce a policy that will allow farmers to buy land in continents like South America and Africa to farm for all sorts of crops.

Shortly after taking office in 2008, President Lee Myung-bak announced a catchphrase that became a kind of umbrella for his economic policies: green growth.

Uzbekistan and South Korea signed a $2.6 billion deal to build a gas-chemical plant in the Central Asian state which their leaders said was “unprecedented” in Uzbek-Korean relations.

Days after having inked a civil nuclear agreement with South Korea, India will reopen the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) to make it more contemporary and further strengthen trade ties with the East Asian tiger.