AT least 38 people have been killed in flash floods in a remote region of Indonesia's North Sumatra province. The
Eighteen women and children have died after stampeding a center for for aid in Pakistan.
Drought-hit farmers in northern India are resorting to selling their wives to repay debts to local loan sharks, activists
Floods in an eastern Indian state destroyed homes, damaged crops and swept away roads this week, forcing authorities to
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday told Wu Bangguo, the second most powerful man in China's ruling Communist
Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen visits India on Thursday in a bid to speed up negotiations on a
The Maldives archipelago, threatened by rising sea levels blamed on climate change, said on Monday it would introduce a
Japan's next prime minister Yukio Hatoyama delighted environmental activists but worried business leaders on Monday by vowing to slash
In a bizarre turn of the situation, two Chinese Christians and relief helpers of the Sichuan earthquake were arrested
The 7.3-magnitude quake that struck West Java on Wednesday has killed at least 65 people and injured hundreds more