Asia Pacific

Philippine President Benigno Aquino is a scion of two of the country’s main landowning political dynasties, the Cojuangcos and the Aquinos.

India has kept its position as the world’s largest beef exporter. New data says India has increased its lead over the No. 2 exporter, Brazil. In the last financial year, India exported 2.

The Australian dollar, like its Canadian counterpart, has taken a pummelling in relation to the Yankee greenback in recent weeks. The Aussie dollar is now around US$0.72, even worse than the loonie.

The Surrey Board of Trade will be embarking on a trade mission to Fiji this November, following a visit from Fijian officials last week.

Asia Pacific Foundation poll shows Canadians are particularly worried about losing control of natural resources to China and the United States

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s progressive removal of farm subsidies is helping to consolidate land holdings, but the continuing high value of land makes the investment prohibitive for would-be corporate farmers

Masaaki Yoshihira is as determined to save this village of 450 people, nestled in the mountains behind Hiroshima on Japan’s southern coast, as he is the farming on which it has depended for time immemorial ...

Free trade with India will open markets to Canadian companies, but they will be complex to navigate and slower to grow than China’s

The popularity of solar power is rising sharply in Japan in the wake of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami which destroyed the Fukushima nuclear power plant

It seems that the national leader with the world’s worst haircut, North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, may be feeling the pinch from international sanctions sparked by his nuclear weapons program.