Asia Pacific

Political scandals in Japan are raising questions whether Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will have the clout next year to...

Amid the optimism and celebration last week around the inauguration of Joko Widodo as Indonesia’s president there were dark shadows as the country’s special interests and traditional power brokers prepare to try to block his economic reform agenda.

Over half of middle-class Singaporeans say their greatest challenge is saving enough for their retirement

The Australian government is spending over $1 billion a year to house 2,200 would-be asylum seekers in offshore detention centres in nearby Papua New Guinea and Nauru

The negative impact of Beijing’s refusal to allow democracy in Hong Kong and the protest demonstrations by pro-reformers is prompting Taiwan to reassess its growing economic ties with China

Thailand’s military junta is using a program of economic stimuli and tax reforms to try to undermine the support for ousted and exiled Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra

About three-quarters of Pakistanis like the idea of Islamic banking that follows the dictates of Shariah religious law

The Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations may be heading for the same bargaining purgatory as the Doha Round of the World Trade Organization, in which discussions are eternal and the resolution of disagreements will always come tomorrow.

If China can embrace real reforms, it can move toward real business development instead of the crony capitalism it has now

Simon Fraser University has signed an agreement with the Indian Council for Cultural Relations