Asia Pacific

The Cambodian government has announced a plan to provide bilingual education for its ethnic minority children. The minorities, living mostly in northern Cambodia, will be taught in their indigenous languages and the national language, Khmer.

But Canada continues to lag behind other countries in negotiating a trade deal with the Asian industrial technology dynamo

British Columbia Premier Christy Clark departed November 21 for the BC Jobs and Trade Mission in Asia, leading a delegation of more than 120 organizations, including educational institutions and private-sector companies.

Malaysia is to introduce a goods and services tax in April aimed at reducing the government’s deficit from its current 53% of gross domestic product to 3.5% of GDP by the end of the next fiscal year.

The number of foreign students enrolling in education in New Zealand has fallen for the third consecutive year, dropping below the previous low point of 91,000 in 2008.

South Korea’s economic and political achievements in the last few decades have been impressive, but it seems citizens may be paying with a poor quality of life.

The Indonesian government is to allow foreign investors to hold higher stakes in key local industries than has been allowed until now.

Over 40% of the 138 Chinese firms doing business in North Korea in 2010 were involved in the country's mining sector, according to the US Korea Institute at John Hopkins University SAIS in Washington, DC.

Japan is to draw up regulations aimed at stopping hotels, restaurants and department stores lying in their menus and on food labels.

British Columbia companies doing business in China could find themselves at an advantage by closing their deals in Chinese yuan instead of in U.S. dollars.