Asia Pacific

India overtook China last year and regained its traditional place as the world’s largest market for gold.

The garment industry in Burma, also known as Myanmar, is booming, and corporate leaders expect the sector to employ one million people within the next few years.

Trade between North Korea and China shrank by 2.4% to about $7 billion last year over strained relations between Pyongyang and Beijing.

China’s slower growth stalling price recovery for B.C. commodities

The relationship between Beijing and Naypyidaw has gone downhill since the end of nearly half a century of military rule in 2011. Burmese have been vocal in expressing what they see as Chinese economic colonialism plundering not just their forests, but their resources in general.

Reproduction furniture from the last 700 years is affordable and has spawned a huge industry with thousands of workshops and showrooms across the country. There is no reliable information about how large this sector has grown as Chinese seek to furnish their homes and apartments with echoes of their country’s imperial past.

China, oil, coal and hogs. What do any of these commodities have to do with each other? According to a recent Bank of Canada analysis, the dizzying drop in oil prices has a lot to do with China.

A software company in the Southeast Asia oil sultanate of Brunei has developed a program that facilitates the precision flying of drones.

Thailand’s military regime says it is not going to allow the country’s money-losing flag carrier, Thai Airways International, to go bankrupt.

Burma’s Ministry of Finance is to significantly increase taxes on tobacco and alcoholic beverages starting in the 2015-16 fiscal year, which starts in April.