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Chinese premier Li Keqiang has pledged to build trust with India, on his first foreign trip since taking office in March.

In the world of telecommunications, Myanmar remains one of the world's last remaining untapped markets.

While Myanmar's telecommunications may present a huge opportunity to the companies that get the licenses, Human Rights Watch says they also risk being complicit in surveillance, censorship and rights abuses.

Afghanistan expects mining revenues will replace all of its receipts from donor contributions within a decade.

Former United Kingdom Secretary of State for International Development, Clare Short, says she hopes more countries will sign up to a global anti-corruption initiative for the mining and energy industries during an international conference in Sydney, this week.

Womens' rights in Afghanistan have once again been challenged, with parliament blocking debate on the Elimination of Violence Against Women bill.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is in India on his first foreign trip since taking up the post in March.

Criminal syndicates are rounding up thousands of pet dogs and strays in Thailand to feed the illegal dog meat trade in Southeast Asia.

Yesterday, around 2,000 people took to the streets of Phnom Penh, demanding the reform of Cambodia's National Election Committee ahead of polls on the 28th of July.

East Timor ranks among the best and Myanmar the worst in an assessment of governments' openness about mining activities.

China's poultry industry is losing 166 million Australian dollars a day because of the outbreak of the latest strain of bird flu in late March.

A digital collection of rare and endangered languages from across the Asia Pacific have been recognised by the United Nation's heritage agency, UNESCO.

Here's a question that can be worth millions of dollars: What makes a brand cool? 

Representatives from the International Red Cross movement have met in Hiroshima, pushing to further develop an international Convention to make the use of nuclear weapons illegal under international law.

Sydney is playing host this week to two international conferences aimed at bringing more transparency and accountability into the resource industry.

A major aid agency said Australia's mining companies were failing to get the consent of indigenous communities at their overseas mining projects.

The story of the revival of an ancient Cambodian musical instrument: the pin harp.

Early on Friday, Indonesia carried out three more executions, the latest in a number that the government says will be done this year.