A bomb planted by suspected Islamic militants exploded at a filling station in Pakistan's Punjab province, killing at least 20 people and wounding 127 others.
China aims to "basically eradicate poverty" by 2020 while greatly raise its poverty line, in order to help more people in need, Premier Wen Jiabao said.
The unbridled manufacture and use of pesticides in Asia is raising the spectre of "pest storms" devastating the region's rice farms, scientists have warned.
Thirty-one lecturers from the Vietnam University of Fine Arts are displaying their best works at an exhibition entitled ‘Beginning a New-year Writing’ in Hanoi.