The South-South Steering Committee for Sustainable Development (SS-SCSD) launched two Asia- Pacific regional organizations here on Sunday in fresh move to mobilize adequate resources for enhancing South-South and triangular cooperation.
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Monday reiterated importance of the country's rebalance strategy in Asia-Pacific region.
Australia's agriculture sector is beefing up for a new trade paradigm as urgent calls for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) coincide with a renewed vision for the role Australia's vast, and under-utilized food resources can play in the "Asian Century."
Victoria, a southeast state of Australia, launched on Wednesday a four-year Food to Asia Action Plan, which aims to boost exports to Asia and make the state "the food bowl of Asia."
U.S. President Barack Obama will visit Japan, the Republic of Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines in late April, the White House said on Wednesday.
The United States reassured its allies in Asia on Wednesday that its pledges to the "critical region" remain the centerpiece of its foreign policy.
Paris-based cosmetics giant L'Oreal has expanded a factory in central China's Hubei Province into its largest production base in the Asia-Pacific region.
The conference "APEC in the 21st century Asia-Pacific" kicked off in Vietnam's capital Hanoi on Friday, jointly organized by the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry and the UNDP Vietnam.
Thirty-nine films from 21 Asia Pacific countries and areas have been nominated for the Seventh Asia-Pacific Screen Awards (APSA), one of the most significant film awards in the region, APSA said on Tuesday.
China is ready to promote mutually beneficial cooperation with ASEAN during the upcoming East Asia leaders meetings, Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin said Monday.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Sunday that the negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement might not be able to be completed by the year-end deadline.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is to attend the East Asia leaders meetings and pay an official visit to Brunei, Thailand and Vietnam next week, Chinese Foreign Ministry announced Friday.
About 68 percent of global businessmen from all over the world expressed their willingness to raise their investment in Asia-Pacific region next year, Chairman of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Business Advisory Council (ABAC) Wisnu Wardhana said in Bali on Wednesday.
The important issues for all the economies in Asia-Pacific region now are structural reform and infrastructure, Professor Andrew MacIntyre, dean of the College of Asia & the Pacific at Australian National University (ANU), said in a recent interview with Asia Pacific Daily.
Chinese President Xi Jinping will address the 21st economic leaders' meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum and expound on China's economic situation and reform measures, the Foreign Ministry has announced.
New Zealand would be pressing for greater economic cooperation and integration in the Asia- Pacific region at this week's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ( APEC) annual meeting of finance ministers, Associate Minister of Finance Jonathan Coleman said Tuesday.
With funds flowing out of emerging Asia to developed economies where recovery is underway and investment returns are becoming more attractive, the health of the many Asian corporations are increasingly under closer scrutiny, particularly now that many emerging Asian markets are facing some problems.