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MANILA, PHILIPPINES - Papua New Guinea (PNG) is to improve its border facilities with neighboring Indonesian province, Papua, in a bid to tap trade and investment opportunities that can benefit some of its poorest provinces.

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA - 'Developing Asia's bond markets must overcome low liquidity, a narrow investor base and limited borrower access if they are to support sustainable economic development in the region,' said Bindu N. Lohani, the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) Vice-President, Finance and Administration.

Ministers from WTO member governments said on 1 December 2009 that the eight-year-old Doha Round negotiations should be concluded quickly, several of them calling for a political push early in the year so the talks can end in 2010.

New York: An independent United Nations human rights expert welcomed the adoption of a bill by the Parliament of the Maldives to decriminalize defamation, and urged other States to take similar action.

Millions of people in India have suffered so much dislocation, destruction and devastation of their lives under the combined impact of greedy private entrepreneurs and callous governments over the years that it's a miracle that they haven't taken to violent means of registering their anger and disgust at the system of governance.

China's latest show of obstreperousness in opposing a road building project in Ladakh is in keeping with its inexplicable assertiveness, as noted by Manmohan Singh during his US visit.

WASHINGTON-The World Bank has debarred Limited Liability Company Siemens (OOO Siemens), a Russian subsidiary of Siemens AG, for having engaged in fraudulent and corrupt practices in relation to a World Bank-financed project.

New York: On the eve of World AIDS Day, the United Nations issued new recommendations for fighting the pandemic, calling for an earlier start to treatment for adults and adolescents, as well as urging HIV-positive mothers and their infants to take antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) while breastfeeding to prevent transmission.

New York: The United Nations has appealed for more than $7.1 billion over the coming year to assist 48 million people across 25 countries whose lives have been wrecked by conflict and natural disasters, with the largest amount - over $1 billion - sought for Sudan.

New York: A deadly and highly infectious animal disease which affects cattle and other hoofed livestock is set to be only the second virus in history, behind small pox in 1980, to be eliminated from the face of the Earth, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has announced.