ESCAP

Asia-Pacific region urges more holistic approach to achieving gender equality

Recommitting themselves to achieving gender equality and empowering women for decades to come, countries from Asia and the Pacific meeting at the United Nations regional commission in Bangkok (ESCAP) today called for a more all-embracing approach to understanding the issue.

In bid to boost trade, UN helps to tighten transport links in northeast Asia

A three-country meeting this week in China has agreed to streamline customs procedures, coordinate transit routes and establish a common regulatory framework - moves meant to boost export capabilities and living standards in northeast Asia, United Nations officials said today.