Asia Pacific

The Royal New Zealand Navy is facing criticism from opposition politicians for having to call off the pursuit of three illegal fishing boats because its offshore patrol ship, HMNZS Wellington, was running low on fuel.

The government of Laos plans to increase the minimum wage in an effort to attract hundreds of thousands of migrant workers home from neighbouring countries, especially Thailand ...

Beijing and Washington are approaching an agreement by which United States law enforcement agencies will assist China to catch fugitive corrupt officials.

After scrapping the controversial Immigrant Investor Program (IPP) one year ago, the federal government has...

Hotels, golf courses, resorts and small businesses now on the radar of foreign buyers, mostly from China

The unexpected victory by opposition leader Maithripala Sirisena in Sri Lanka’s presidential election will see a realignment of the country’s economic and diplomatic relations towards India, Europe and North America, and away from China.

Urbanspoon, a restaurant review and search app that is popular in Canada, the United States and Australia, has been sold to...

Vietnam’s prime minister, Nguyen Tan Dung, has approved plans to set up “industrial clusters” in five sectors, backed by scientific research centres, skilled labour and economic inducements to investors.

Now that Myanmar’s decades of isolation under military rule have ended, the people are loosing their pent-up passion for foreign goods.

South Korean K-pop bands are one of the country’s most profitable cultural exports. But the boy band B1A4 has come up hard against religious disapproval after a recent concert in Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur.