Asia Pacific

India’s new prime minister, Narendra Modi, is playing Japan and South Korea against each other in his quest for modern civil nuclear generation technology.

Doing credible due diligence on potential Chinese partner companies is a nightmare.

The Japanese government plans to cut the corporate tax rate by five percentage points over the next five years, bringing it to about the same level as Germany's 29.95% by 2020.

Remittances by overseas Bangladeshi workers last month rose by 15.9% over June, despite a sharp drop in the number of people working abroad.

The number of South Koreans with part-time jobs has jumped by over 9% in the last year to close to two million people.

Libya is close to a full-blown civil war, but Filipino workers say they have a “better chance of surviving” there than at home in the Philippines.

Vietnam could become the world's leading supplier of coffee within a few years, if only it can deal with the problem of low-quality beans.

Ewha Women's University in the South Korean capital Seoul is the world's second-largest female education institute and one of the most prestigious in Asia.

Indonesia is the most populous Muslim country in the world, and, as elsewhere in Islam, the festival Eid al-Fitr after the privations of the month of Ramadan is a joyous day.

New Zealand has edged out Canada in a United Nations assessment of the world's most developed countries. The ranking is based on life expectancy, access to education and per capita gross national income.