The US has shown its willingness to provide technical support for the Vietnam Ministry of Finance and share its management experience with the country.

Japan's government has lifted restrictions on vegetables and milk from some parts of the country's north after inspections found radiation levels below legal limits for three straight weeks, a top government official announced Friday.

ASEAN member countries have agreed to launch an infrastructure fund and a new financial surveillance agency later this year.

Ivory Coast's internationally recognised President Alassane Ouattara has urged the EU to lift sanctions, in a bid to restart the ailing economy. 

The global economy is firmly on the mend in 2011 but downside risks are on the rise, particularly from surging oil prices, the International Monetary Fund said Monday.

Eleven people were killed and 126 were wounded in a blast that struck a metro station in the Belarussian capital Minsk.The authorities said the blast is suspected to be a terrorist act.

Japan is to raise its assessment of the severity of its nuclear emergency to the maximum seven on an international scale, putting it on a par with Chernobyl, reports said Tuesday.

A strong aftershock ripped through northeastern Japan, killing two, injuring dozens and piling misery on a region still buried under the rubble of last month's devastating tsunami.

Top officials of the financial sectors from 10 members ASEAN countries are gathering in Bali on April 7 for a closed-door session to discuss foreign investment, food security and the building of the ASEAN Economic Community.

This is the 13 successive year the German government has helped Vietnam overcome the aftermaths of wars and improve the living conditions for its people in the central region.

Asia's developing economies are expected to grow by just under 8 percent in 2011, according to the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

Russia launched a spacecraft with three astronauts on board from the Kazakh Baikonur space center early on Tuesday, Xinhua correspondents reported from the site.

Tens of thousands evacuated from around the stricken Fukushima Daiichi power plant may not be allowed home for months, a Japanese minister said on April 1, with no end in sight for the nuclear crisis as fresh concerns mount about alarming radiation levels in beef, seawater and groundwater.

The levels of radiation in ocean waters off Japan's embattled Fukushima Daiichi plant continue to skyrocket, the nation's nuclear safety agency said Thursday, with no clear sense of what's causing the spike or how to stop it.

Japan was on Wednesday considering plans to drape shattered nuclear reactor buildings with special covers to limit radiation, and pump contaminated water into a tanker.