The dollar dipped slightly in Asia Friday on expectations that a weekend meeting of finance officials from the Group of Seven industrialized economies won't focus on the slipping yen.
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The Silk Road, from the Mediterranean to the Far East, was once among the most important trade routes in the world. It remains an iconic "crossroad" for East-West relations, but the countries it crisscrosses are poorly understood outside the region.
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From Bombay to Beijing, a newly affluent Asian middle class is increasingly adapting Western lifestyles. Many city dwellers opt for high calorie fast food instead of healthier traditional meals and are becoming less and less physically active. This comes with a price: diabetes, mainly caused by excess weight and lack of exercise, has reached epidemic levels in Asia.
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The number of people in Asia infected with the HIV virus that causes AIDS could more than double to 20 million over the next five years without a better government response and more funding, officials warned Friday.
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A regional United Nations agency says Asia needs to step up investment in infrastructure to maintain the region's high growth momentum. Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, where the U.N.'s Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) recently held a meeting on infrastructure development in Asia.
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Business leaders and trade officials from India and Japan are in agreement that the current level of trade does not match the economic power of the two Asian nations. But Indians and Japanese disagree on the reasons, and how their two-way trade can reach its potential. VOA's Steve Herman reports from New Delhi.
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Asian stocks have opened with mixed results in early trading - as investors try to recover from last week's big sell-off in world markets.
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For more than 75 years, the British Council has promoted British culture and education abroad. Now the council has begun closing many of its European offices, as it shifts its focus and resources to mostly Muslim countries in the Middle East and Asia.
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Vietnam has released its first government white paper on religious policy. The paper underscores Vietnam's growing religious freedom, and the resurgence of spiritual belief in the country since the 1990s. But some believers say communist hostility toward religion has not entirely disappeared.
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Bird flu is back. In recent weeks, there have been reported cases in South Korea, Japan, and Indonesia. Now a 14-year-old Azerbaijani boy, who was treated for suspected bird flu, has died in the capital, Baku.
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AsiaAlive: Indian Picture Storytelling: February 1-11
Experience the performance storytelling art of Mohan Bhopa and Patasi from Rajasthan, India, who were recently featured in The New Yorker (November 20, 2006). The Bhopa (the storyteller, priest, dancer, and musician) and his wife, a Bhopi, travel from village to village to perform epic stories that are not only literary entertainment, but are also thought by some to have curative powers for people and their valued livestock.
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The mode of deformation of continents and the forces that drive this deformation are not well understood, despite detailed research on this topic.
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