Asia Pacific

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.

Britain’s vote to leave the European Union has sent a little shiver down spines in the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which is in the process of morphing into an EU-like economic community.

Foreign investment in Bangladesh dropped by 32% to US$410.68 million in the first three months of this year against US$606.92 million in the same period last year.

But government points to improvement in the second quarter compared with the first