The motor vehicle, international and domestic air travel, electro-mechanical equipment and industrial production have brought their benefits, and their associated pollution and health problems, to the rapidly expanding non-agricultural workforces and urbanizing populations of the newly industrializing countries. Nearly all governments in the Asian-Pacific region have attempted to respond to these problems and the purpose of this paper is to report on the regional status of the adoption of occupational noise limits, the development of noise control legislation and policies, and the implementation of land use control strategies to tackle the noise problem. The intent is to provide a broad overview of these matters in the region and to highlight needs and deficiencies which can facilitate the exchange of experience and technical know-how from those countries with extensive experience in noise control to those without. -from Authors