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With the frequency and severity of droughts likely to increase due to climate change, more than 60 scientists from all the world’s regions are meeting at a United Nations-backed conference in the United States this week to draw up guidelines for early warning systems that could save countless lives.

New York: The United Nations official leading efforts to tackle malaria is visiting Nigeria and Kenya this week, the two nations which together account for one third of the estimated 1 million deaths worldwide from the deadly disease.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will support the Maldives government's plan to implement sweeping economic reforms to restore its ailing economy to sustainable growth.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - Cambodia will target sweeping new measures to boost incomes and livelihood opportunities for thousands of poor households in the Tonle Sap Basin region, in a bid to broaden the country's economic base and address growing income disparities between urban and rural areas.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - Indigenous peoples' hold oncommunal lands and resources in Asia is under pressure, although national and international laws and safeguard policies provide a platform for them to claim their ancestral land rights, according to a new Asian Development Bank (ADB)-funded publication.

New York: A United Nations-backed intelligence sharing centre for Central Asian countries on the front line of the battle against drug trafficking from Afghanistan opened in Kazakhstan today, just a day after Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the Security Council called for greater global cooperation in the war on narcotics.

New York: Global food prices are on the rise again, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported today, with the agency's Food Price Index registering four straight months of increases.

New York: The vast majority of the world's population is still exposed to the harmful effects of second-hand smoke, responsible for 600,000 premature deaths annually, despite the ban on smoking in public places being extended to seven more countries last year, a United Nations report warns today.

New York: Corruption kills development and is one of the biggest obstacles to achieving the globally agreed targets to reduce poverty, hunger and other social ills by 2015, also known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), United Nations officials warned today.