Heavy rains and flooding have killed at least 233 people in Pakistan, a disaster agency spokesman said Wednesday, as a weather forecast calls for more rain over deluged parts of the country.
Manila's electric jeepneys aim to spark a green revolution on the Philippines capital?s traffic-choked streets.
Afghan visitors pose for photos and pretend to sell each other passenger tickets next to a rusty little locomotive in a shattered corner of the Afghan capital.
After nearly a century, a modern railroad is under construction in Afghanistan. CNN's Ivan Watson reports.
Pakistan's floods have set back millions of people and an entire country's economy, as CNN's Jonathan Mann reports.
A look at of the dirtiest rivers in the world, from which millions of people get drinking water. CNN's Anna Coren reports
Asia is set to lead the world out of the global financial crisis in spite of the slow recovery in the US and Europe, according to the latest forecasts by the Asian Development Bank.
The global credit crisis has been a good test for the burgeoning Asian local currency bond markets, and one they seem to have passed.
Summit antics
updated: Thu Apr 02 2009 06:43:00
A protester uses his head to break a window. CNN's Jeanne Moos gives the G-20 summit the royal treatment.
India's prime minister, in a speech ahead of the G-20 economic summit, called for added funding to developing nations as a way to maintain demand in a troubled global economy.
Asia's economic growth will tumble to the slowest pace since the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said in a report released Tuesday.
CNN's Eunice Yoon reports on Asian reaction to the resignation of GM's CEO Rick Wagoner.
Financial experts from 20 nations urged more regulation and oversight of fiscal institutions to help prevent another monetary crisis, as they laid the groundwork Saturday for next month's G-20 Summit of world leaders.
Financial experts from 20 nations urged more regulation and oversight of fiscal institutions to help prevent another monetary crisis, as they laid the groundwork Saturday for next month's G20 Summit of world leaders.
A debate is stirring in the predominantly Roman Catholic country of the Philippines: should the government provide contraceptives to the public?
CNN's Matthew Chance reports on how Russia could be part of the solution to the global food crisis.
President Bush asks Congress for 770 million dollars to help ease the global food crisis. CNN's Zain Verjee reports.
An Indian car manufacturer unveiled its much-anticipated $2,500 "people's car" on Thursday -- a four-wheel passenger vehicle which it hopes will provide a much-needed transportation option for the poor.
Despite its devastating toll of human misery, the December 2004 tsunami had relatively little impact on the broad picture of Asian regional economic growth in 2005.
At a potential donors' conference attended by dozens of nations and agencies in Islamabad, where Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf sought more than $2.5 billion for victims of South Asia's massive earthquake, the head of the U.S. delegation said the United States is increasing its pledge to $510 million for relief and reconstruction.
Emotional campaigning and lobbying at an international donors conference yielded pledges of about $3 billion to assist Pakistan following last month's South Asian earthquake -- enough to cover the estimated expenses of assisting victims and rebuilding the stricken region.
Last month's deadly quake in South Asia will cost Pakistan more than $5 billion -- more than twice the amount pledged so far, two international agencies have found in a joint report.
A woman who died last month in Indonesia was suffering from the deadly H5N1 strain of avian influenza, health officials said Saturday, and an 8-year-old relative has tested positive for the disease.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called on the international community to make immediate preparations for a possible pandemic of bird flu.
Today Hong Kong's international airport is bustling with activity -- a sign the good economic times are back in this territory that sits on China's southern coast.
Growth in developing Asian countries is predicted to expand over the next two years, after the region experienced its strongest economic growth since the financial crisis of 1997-98.
Developing Asia and the Pacific will grow at 7.0 percent in 2004 on strong exports and buoyant intraregional trade, the Asian Development Bank says.
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