HIV/AIDS is causing problems for young people in China.

China is reportedly struggling to increase awareness in HIV/AIDS knowledge among children, according to a report in the state-run Xinhua News Agency on Saturday

More Japanese medical institutions are using the English language in an effort to connect to the rest of the global healthcare community. Taking the lead on the language shift was the Japanese Cancer Association, which opened its three-day convention on Tuesday using English presentations.

Takashi Tsuruo, chairman of the convention and head of the Cancer Chemotherapy Center of the Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research explained, "We would like to turn our association into one in which researchers from Asia and Oceania can easily participate and to make it the core of research in this region

A five-fold hike in penalties will be imposed by China's State Environmental Protection Administration on individuals and firms that pollute drinking water resources by discharging toxic substances. The drastic hike in fines will place the maximum fine at $67,600 (500,000 yuan).

For those who dump solid waste and other types of pollutants, the penalty will be $27,000 (200,000 yuan), a 20-fold increase from present levels. The draft policy lifts the $135,000 (1 million yuan) ceiling on fines for water polluters. Once the policy is approved, polluters will have to pay from 20 percent to 30 percent of the direct economic loss that was caused by their dumping activity

The Japanese administration said Friday that employers and local authorities need to coordinate with the government to help tackle the country's disturbingly high rate of suicide cases. In 2006, 32,155 people committed suicide in Japan.

Though the figure decreased by 397 from the previous year, the country's suicide rate stays on the ninth rank among the other parts of the world, the Cabinet Office report confirmed, referring to World Health Organization (WHO) data

The Nepalese government on Wednesday sounded the alarm on the recurring diarrhea outbreak in the region, with over 200 people killed and 16,162 cases reported in the first six months of the year alone.

According to Dr. Manas Kumar Banerjee, project coordinator of Avian Influenza Control Project under the Epidemiology and Disease Control Unit (EDCU), the government would implement a massive campaign and operational research throughout the region to determine the causes behind the "focal epidemic