Asia Pacific

When it comes to Canada’s relationship with China, few Canadian officials are as knowledgeable or experienced as former senator and federal minister Jack Austin.

Vancouver can expect to see an abnormally high number of Chinese visitors in 2018, tourism officials say, as China and Canada ramp up efforts to promote the official year of travel between the two countries.

The Far East and Southeast Asia are looking more risky and uncertain as places to do business and target investment than they have for a quarter of a century.

Singapore and Malaysia are taking a small step in the eventual integration of Southeast Asia’s economies with the building of a cross-border rapid transit system.

Tax collectors in India and South Korea are attempting to come to grips with how the state gets its share of cryptocurrency transactions.

Hun Sen has ruled Cambodia since 1985 and has never allowed election results, however inconvenient, to stand in the way of that continuing. He was originally handed control of the government after the invasion by Vietnam in 1979.

For decades Japan’s chief cabinet secretary, a far more politically potent position than the name implies, has had at his disposal a secret fund to tap when instantly available money is needed.

The Communist Party of China has always had a vigorous attitude towards town planning and social engineering in general.

Most university students who are two terms away from graduation are usually focused on their final few months of school and finding a job, not starting a company from scratch. But Randy Wu isn’t like most students.

Canada has reached an agreement with 10 other nations on a revised Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a move that will likely strengthen Ottawa’s hand in its ongoing North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) negotiations with Washington.