Climate change will slash up to 9 percent off the South Asian economy every year by 2100 if the world continues on its current "fossil-fuel intensive path," the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said Tuesday.
The Nepal government has said that the number of toll from flood and landslide had reached 105, while 20,000 people were displaced across the country.
Former chiefs of S.Korean cyber command charged with political intervention
Falling commodity prices are slowing New Zealand's economic growth, although the economy is still expanding "at a robust pace," the Treasury said in its Pre- election Economic and Fiscal Update on Tuesday.
Falling dairy prices dragged down New Zealand's producer prices in the quarter to the end of June, while the high New Zealand dollar pushed up capital goods prices, the government statistics agency announced Tuesday.
President Xi Jinping said Monday that China will build several new-type media groups that are strong, influential and credible.
Asking prices of property coming to market decreased by 2.9 percent month-on-month in August, according to a survey from Rightmove Monday, marking the biggest fall the company has ever recorded.
Mongolian President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj said that his country is ready to further promote its strategic partnership with China.
The 15-member Southern African Development Community said Monday it will not impose travel ban on Ebola hit West African countries, as the international community taking measures against the spread of the deadly virus.
Poland is one of the only three European Union (EU) countries with a decreasing unemployment rate in 2007-2014, Poland's Ministry of Labour and Social Policy reported Monday, quoting Eurostat figures.
China's central bank announced on Monday that an online system for the registration of Legal Entity Identifiers (LEI) has been established and put into operation, joining a global effort to strengthen financial stability.
The genetic conditions of each individual person determine what effect stress has on their emotions, researchers from the Medical University of Vienna in Austria have claimed in a new study.
Only 47.38 percent of the payments by companies in Singapore were made on time in the second quarter, down from 51.92 percent in the previous quarter, Channel NewsAsia reported on Tuesday.
Out of a population of 100 million, some 11.8 million Filipinos are still jobless and there is an increasing pessimism among them of finding gainful employment soon, according to a recent survey conducted by a reputable survey firm in Manila.
The King Gesar, a millennium-old Tibetan epic poem, is to have its own protection zone on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, the local government said Monday.
Kashmiri separatist leaders Monday criticized New Delhi for calling off foreign-secretary level talks with Islamabad and described the decision as "unfortunate".India Monday called off foreign- secretary level talks with Pakistan scheduled to be held in Islamabad on August 25.
Canada's main stock market Monday rose as worries over a further escalation of Ukraine tensions diminished, lifting most of the eight major sectors.
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