Asia Pacific

Dictators can be as inconvenient when they are dead as they were troublesome when they were alive. That’s the case with the preserved remains of the Philippines’ last dictator, Ferdinand Marcos, who died in exile in 1989.

North Korea has published its assessment of its own human rights record

Pakistan has agreed to a pricing formula for importing natural gas from India

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.