Asia Pacific

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington last fall and Obama’s return visit in New Delhi in January addressed ambitious agendas for future economic and political engagement between the two countries. But into this upbeat mood, the generic drug issue has intruded like a wet dog at a wedding reception.

Pakistan is not the most attractive target in Greater Asia for investment, and many Pakistani business people seem to agree.

A new report by the Electoral Integrity Project, a joint endeavour by Harvard and Sydney universities, says the quality of elections in five Southeast Asian countries – Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand – is among the worst

The fallout from South Korea’s “nut rage” drama is gathering into an all-out campaign against what are being portrayed as the self-obsessed offspring of the heads of the “chaebol” corporate conglomerates.

China’s economy may be on a downward slide, but that has not as yet put a damper on business travel.

The lure of careers as entrepreneurs has taken a firm grip on the imagination of Cambodian young people, but far too much so according to the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport.

By meeting a repayment deadline for the first time in months, Malaysia’s troubled sovereign wealth fund, 1Malaysia Development Berhad, seems to have staved off a debt crisis that threatened the country’s entire banking system.

Editor-in-chief Fiona Anderson on the news that caught her eye this week

Officials in South Korea and Japan are playing down speculation that the ending of a bilateral $10 billion currency swap agreement has more to do with political tensions between Seoul and Tokyo than with economics.

Sri Lanka’s new president, Maithripala Sirisena, has emphasized his move away from the dominant relationship with China under the previous administration by signing a nuclear agreement with India.