Asia Pacific

When measured against income and rents, Australian home prices are the second most expensive in the world, according to a new report from the Bank for International Settlements.

There have always been doubts about how serious China’s new president, Xi Jinping, is about the new round of economic reforms and liberalization, whose chief cheerleader was the now overshadowed and increasingly inconsequential Premier Li Keqiang.

Pakistan, which often seems to be in the grip of almost total political and social disarray, has seen a 36.88% rise in the Karachi stock market index in the past year

British Columbians who count China as their country of origin have mixed feelings about certain aspects of living in this province, according to the results of an Insights West poll released September 18.

Taiwan’s highly educated and qualified young graduates are angry over the lack of well-paying jobs or even suitable employment as government-protected industrialists take their factories and investment to China

Japan now has 58,820 centenarians

A buying frenzy by Chinese investors is expected to keep the property market in Australia's major cities booming for at least the next two years.

South Korea's National Assembly Research Service is taking a long view of history and figures it doesn't have much future.

The Philippines is likely to achieve only 60% of its 35 Millenium Development Goals by the 2015 deadline, says the United Nations Development Programme.

China has 56 ethnic groups who among them speak 80 languages and dialects. Even the majority language, Mandarin, has eight dialects.