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President Hu Jintao's state visit to USA, at the invitation of President Obama, with all pomp and ceremony, may have helped to restore a sense of balance and harmony, repairing a troubled bilateral relationship, after a year of acrimony over economic and security issues in the Asia-Pacific region. China had seemed to challenge America's continuing maritime dominance in Asian waters viewing it as a design for its encirclement while sovereignty assertions by Beijing over disputed islands in the South and East China Seas rattled some of the countries in the region.

What is wrong with the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government? Why is it going so soft on big-time Indian financial world criminals?

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has agreed to lend up to $100 million to a privately owned gas-fired power plant in Pakistan that will help alleviate chronic power shortages which are undermining growth and poverty reduction.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - Asia is benefiting hugely from the many free trade agreements reached over the last decade but the region needs now to consolidate those agreements, says a new book from the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) and Asian Development Bank (ADB).

New Delhi: Government has planned to promote Safe and Honourable Tourism. The Tourist Police Organisation (TPO) will be enlarged with the involvement of state governments to ensure the safety of tourists.

New York: The International Criminal Court (ICC) and the Government of Serbia signed an agreement today by which people convicted by the court can serve their sentences in the Eastern European nation.

New York: Soldiers from Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and the African Union peacekeeping mission that is trying to stabilize the conflict-wracked country need urgent funding to continue their operations, a senior United Nations envoy warned today.

New York: Restoring political stability and achieving a new Lebanese government is possible if all parties are willing to cooperate towards that end, a top United Nations envoy said today following a meeting with the caretaker Prime Minister, Saad Hariri.

New York: Haiti’s electoral council must take full account of an international mission’s findings, reportedly eliminating the Government candidate from the presidential run-off, or face the prospect of considerable unrest, the United Nations peacekeeping chief warned today.

New York: United Nations de-miners have removed over 27,000 landmines from the buffer zone in Cyprus over the past six years, the UN envoy to the country said today, while announcing that the mine action programme will come to an end next month due to lack of access to remaining minefields.