Asia Pacific

The balance of power between capital and labour is shifting back towards the former in China’s troubled manufacturing heartland as the economic slowdown wipes out jobs faster than the labour supply falls.

Asian stock markets plunged sharply on Monday as concerns grew that central banks had approached the end of their monetary easing and amid talk the Federal Reserve might be serious about lifting US interest rates as early as next week.

Incentives on offer for entrepreneurs interested in attending major Jakarta trade expo in October

China’s yuan softened against the US dollar on Friday, after the People’s Bank of China guided the currency weaker. The offshore yuan traded in Hong Kong weakened 0.07 per cent to trade at 6.6850 on Friday morning.

Survey finds support in B.C. and Canada for trade but fears about erosion of Canadian values, sovereignty

Climate change declarations are likely; trade deals, not so much

Capital flight remains a concern for the authorities

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has survived more scandals and allegations of corruption than any modern democratically elected leader.

The scandal over Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund, 1MDB, has inevitably muddied the waters over British Columbia’s pending $35 billion liquid natural gas (LNG) project being led by Malaysia’s state-owned Petronas oil and gas company.

Thailand really is the “land of smiles,” according to a survey by the Bloomberg business news agency. Last week Bloomberg issued its latest “misery index,” which ranks countries on the basis of their unemployment and inflation rates.