Automakers Renault and Nissan plan to develop electric cars with a Chinese partner...

The Philippine president has eaten grilled chicken, duck and eggs with other officials to help allay fears caused by the country's first large outbreak of avian flu...

AP PHOTOS: Palm oil kills orangutans in Indonesia peat swamp...

An Indonesian company and its Chinese partner are pushing ahead with an industrial wood plantation in a tropical forest and orangutan habitat on Borneo, apparently flouting government fire-prevention ...

At least 10 U.S. sailors are missing after the USS John S. McCain collided with a tanker east of Singapore, the second accident involving a ship from the Navy's 7th Fleet in two months...

Hyundai Motor says its new hydrogen fuel cell vehicle will travel more than 580 kilometers (360 miles) between fill-ups...

Changing tastes brew bitter times for Japan's beer makers as "salaryman" style after work drinks lose appeal...

The Philippines will cull at least 200,000 birds after confirming its first bird flu outbreak, but no animal-to-human transmission has been reported...

China is expressing its "strong dissatisfaction" with the U.S. over the Navy's freedom of navigation operation in which a warship sailed past one of China's man-made islands in the South China Sea...

The endangered Japanese summer delicacy of roasted eel, braised with a tangy sauce and sprinkled with prickly mountain pepper, may get a new lease on life with commercial farming...