New HIV infections have fallen worldwide by 17 percent over the past eight years, a testament to prevention efforts, according to a U.N. report released Tuesday.
The H1N1 virus has now become the dominant influenza virus around the globe, with high levels and an increase of activity in many regions, the World Health Organization said Thursday.
Despite their astonishing record of losses when dealing with lumberjacks and beavers, trees are pretty tough customers. Their trunks, branches, roots and twigs are all more than capable of enduring a winter's worth of freezing temperatures, snow, sleet and hail. Their leaves, though? Eh, not so tough.
The number of people with dementia globally is estimated to nearly double every 20 years, according to a report released Monday for World Alzheimer's Day.
The wrath of Typhoon Morakot has affected nearly 9 million people across four coastal China provinces and killed dozens in Taiwan, officials said Tuesday.
Sen. Jim Webb will meet with leaders of Myanmar's military junta this week when he stops off in the reclusive country during a two-week, five-nation tour of Asia, his office announced Wednesday.
The world economy is on track to post its worst performance since the Great Depression, with developing countries bearing much of the economic pain, the World Bank said Monday.
The World Health Organization urged Asian countries on Monday to take action against the growing threat of drug-resistant tuberculosis
Consultation: Sleep expert Daniel Kripke reviews the research and says 8 hr. is not necessarily best for all
New HIV infections have fallen worldwide by 17 percent over the past eight years, a testament to prevention efforts, according to a U.N. report released Tuesday.
The H1N1 virus has now become the dominant influenza virus around the globe, with high levels and an increase of activity in many regions, the World Health Organization said Thursday.
Despite their astonishing record of losses when dealing with lumberjacks and beavers, trees are pretty tough customers. Their trunks, branches, roots and twigs are all more than capable of enduring a winter's worth of freezing temperatures, snow, sleet and hail. Their leaves, though? Eh, not so tough.
The number of people with dementia globally is estimated to nearly double every 20 years, according to a report released Monday for World Alzheimer's Day.
The wrath of Typhoon Morakot has affected nearly 9 million people across four coastal China provinces and killed dozens in Taiwan, officials said Tuesday.
Sen. Jim Webb will meet with leaders of Myanmar's military junta this week when he stops off in the reclusive country during a two-week, five-nation tour of Asia, his office announced Wednesday.
The world economy is on track to post its worst performance since the Great Depression, with developing countries bearing much of the economic pain, the World Bank said Monday.
The World Health Organization urged Asian countries on Monday to take action against the growing threat of drug-resistant tuberculosis
Consultation: Sleep expert Daniel Kripke reviews the research and says 8 hr. is not necessarily best for all
They operate from a bare apartment on a Chinese island. They are intelligent 20-somethings who seem harmless. But they are hard-core hackers who claim to have gained access to the world's most sensitive sites, including the Pentagon.
American workers stay longer in the office, at the factory or on the farm than their counterparts in Europe and most other rich nations, and they produce more per person over the year.
The CIA's declassified report, says Robert Baer, shows that the attack could have been prevented if the various intel agencies were able to talk to each other
North Korea said Monday it had conducted a successful underground nuclear test. CNN's Adrian Finighan spoke to Peter Beck, North East Asia Director of the International Crisis Group, about the implications of the claim.
The State Department is investigating a major computer break-in that targeted its headquarters and offices dealing with China and North Korea, department officials said Tuesday.
If you've read anything about the Lincoln Group, the Washington, D.C., firm that has been hiring Iraqi clerics and paying Iraqi newspapers to run articles written by U.S. soldiers, you might be won...
If you've read anything about the Lincoln Group, the Washington, D.C., firm that has been hiring Iraqi clerics and paying Iraqi newspapers to run articles written by U.S. soldiers, you might be wondering, Who are these people? In most news accounts Lincoln is referred to as a PR firm, but nobody in the PR business had heard of it before December. That has led to whispers that Lincoln might be a front for the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.
A 29-year-old Indonesian woman has died from what is believed to be bird flu, a doctor at Indonesia's Sulianti Saroso Hospital has said.
If you've read anything about the Lincoln Group, the Washington, D.C., firm that has been hiring Iraqi clerics and paying Iraqi newspapers to run articles written by U.S. soldiers, you might be wondering, "Who are these people?" In most news accounts Lincoln is referred to as a PR firm, but nobody in the PR business had heard of it before December. That has led to whispers that Lincoln might be a front for the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called on the international community to make immediate preparations for a possible pandemic of bird flu.
Australia's participation at a key regional trade, economic and security summit in Asia remains in doubt, according to Malaysian Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar.
Following are essential facts and figures on the People's Republic of China.
North Korea has accused Japan of aspiring to rule a "Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere" beginning with an invasion of Korea with the assistance of the United States.
Though the epicenter of last week's disaster was in the Indian Ocean, the devastating toll was felt worldwide.
East Asia is headed for its fastest growth rate since before the 1997 Asian financial crisis, pushing poverty levels to a record low, the World Bank says.
Asian stocks have staged a turnaround to finish mainly stronger Tuesday as oil prices move back above $40 a barrel.
U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan warns there is increasing concern in China that its economy is overheating.
East Asia is poised to grow at more than 6 percent this year -- its fastest pace since the start of the global slowdown in early 2000, the World Bank says.
As campaigning for elections hits full swing across Taiwan the unfolding political drama is reverberating in capitals as far away as Beijing and Washington.
In October 1930, in a magazine essay titled "Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren," British economist John Maynard Keynes urged his readers not to get too caught up in the gloom of the time...
Like the half-full water glass, the recent sharp weakening of the Japanese yen means different things to different people. Pessimists believe it reflects the hapless nation's descent into a deflati...
The war against terrorism has brought home forcefully that we share a common planet, that we are interdependent, and that if we are to address the world's central problems, we will have to work tog...
In the world's second-largest economy, people don't spend a whole lot of time blathering about soft landings, hard landings, or anything in between. And the reason is really quite simple. In Japan,...
The true heroes of East Asia's recovery from the 1997 currency crisis--credit card-wielding American mall rats with their insatiable appetite for imports--finally seem tapped out. That means that n...
Just two years ago, emerging economies were in heaps of trouble. The light at the end of the financial-crisis tunnel appeared to be a train barreling the other way. Doomsayers like Charles Wolf, an...
Remember the great Asian economic crisis? Back in late 1997 and in 1998, it seemed to be the perfect doom-and-gloom story for fin de siecle eschatologists: The monetary crisis that had first erupte...
It is clear by now that the nations, companies, and individuals that did nothing because they were too stupid to prepare for the Y2K global disaster fared exactly as well as AT&T, which reportedly ...
"No nation was ever ruined by trade." --Benjamin Franklin
Judging from the confident forecasts by a chorus of experts, the Pacific Century should be dawning about now. Nearly 30 years ago, futurist Herman Kahn argued that by the year 2000, Japan was sure ...
Not long ago, Shanghai officials were boasting that 80% of the world's cranes were at work in their city. That may have been a stretch, but it's true that countless buildings have flowered on this ...
The Great American Growth Machine has now been humming uninterruptedly since March 1991--95 solid months--the longest peacetime expansion ever. And barring some sudden economic calamity of epic pro...
If you spend much time in airports or reading newspapers, you may have seen our new "younger and wiser" ad campaign. The first word's a matter of fact: FORTUNE's readers tend to be younger than the...
The recent economic and market news from Asia has provoked pessimistic predictions of everything from a long-term, continent-wide economic decline to a Latin American-style financial collapse. In f...
Washington has shipped $1 trillion of foreign aid (in current dollars) to needy nations around the world since World War II. Next year, Congress proposes to spend another $16 billion. No one seems ...
Half a century ago Shanghai was East Asia's undisputed hub of finance. These days the city once hailed as the Paris of the Orient is straining to reclaim its glorious past--and succeeding by many m...
HAS THERE EVER been a more sure-fire bet for long-term investors than the East Asian side of the Pacific Rim today? As global growth champ, the region is unrivaled. The World Bank forecasts that fo...
As the center of global industry shifts to the Pacific, American and European corporations are blowing their biggest business opportunities in the fast- rising economies of East Asia. In Sea Change...
Chalk one up for the big stick approach. President Clinton's threat to hit Japanese imports with heavy tariffs seems to have worked. There's now an agreement in place to increase Motorola's access ...
AN EXTRAORDINARY arena of growth in a listless global economy. A battleground for the competition between the U.S. and Japan. This is booming, ambitious East Asia. America and Japan have slowed dow...
THE PACIFIC CENTURY is dawning like thunder out of China. Yes, everyone has been gazing at the horizon in anticipation of the emergence of a new center of economic growth. But its arrival comes wit...
Increasingly, Thailand, Malaysia, and other industrializing countries in Southeast Asia have come to seem like part of an integrated manufacturing and trading zone dominated by Japan Inc. Since 197...
The man on the spot in U.S.-Japan trade relations is American Ambassador Michael Armacost. Since arriving in Tokyo last spring, Armacost has been franker than his predecessor, Mike Mansfield, who s...
WHAT MAKES a good banking connection in Asia today is a far cry from what customers looked for a decade ago. Big borrowers of the recent past, like South Korea, are so flush that they now look to f...
A EUROPEAN businessman mentioned to a friend earlier this year that he planned to open an office in Thailand. ''Are you crazy?'' replied the friend, a Malaysian banker. ''Don't you know about all t...
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JOHN D. BARR, 41 ASHLAND OIL Barr became CEO of Ashland's Valvoline Oil subsidiary in October and now heads the third-largest player (after Quaker State and Pennzoil) in the tough $2 billion U.S. m...
The Japanese aren't the only Asians with a yen for international travel. Encouraged by stronger currencies and fewer travel restrictions, thousands of Taiwanese and Koreans are flocking overseas, a...
Down through the decades, I have retained a vivid memory of a moment in an undergraduate economics class. The class had been weighing the relative merits of socialism and capitalism, and the colloq...
THE LONG-RUNNING foreign trade story is familiar, but that doesn't make it any less depressing. Last year the merchandise trade deficit came to a fearsome $110 billion, nearly double the previous r...
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