More than 1,000 tigers have been killed in the past decade to fuel the illegal trade in parts of the endangered big cats, a report by a wildlife monitoring group said.
China will spend $4.5 billion searching for domestic mineral deposits over the next five years in a bid to lessen its reliance on imported products, state media said.
Ministers of the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum this week are likely to agree on banning fresh protectionist measures to safeguard the world economy, a report said Monday.
Qantas extended the grounding of its fleet of Airbus A380 superjumbos after uncovering "slight anomalies" in some engines after a mid-air blow-out caused a major scare last week.
US President Barack Obama arrived in India Saturday on the first leg of a trade-focused Asia tour that will kick off with a sombre tribute to the victims of the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
Rescuers picked through the rubble of destroyed homes as officials prepared for a mass burial of people killed by the violent eruption of Indonesia's most active volcano.