Asia Pacific

China’s state-controlled Global Times newspaper has become the pulpit from which Beijing dispenses its most scornful comments about foreigners.

India has become the world’s largest consumer of antibiotics, with its use rising from eight billion units in 2001 to 12.9 billion units in 2010.

The City of Terrace has sold 1,056 acres (480 hectares) at its Skeena Industrial Park for $11.87 million to a Chinese investment company that plans to open an alfalfa protein extraction factory.

Thai airline Asia Atlantic Airlines, which is part-owned by Japanese tourist company HIS Co., is going to begin direct flights from Japan to Cambodia in September.

China and South Korea are due to embark on their 12th round of free trade talks this week.

Efforts by Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to fulfil his election pledge to scrap the country's carbon tax have been stalled by an unlikely crew in the Senate.

As it tries to tackle the problem of inflation in basic food commodities, the new Indian government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is cracking down on traders who have started hoarding onions and potatoes.

The military coup in Thailand is causing some chaos in the job market in neighbouring Cambodia.

China Eastern Airlines, one of the three largest airlines in China, has launched a non-stop service between Shanghai and Toronto, joining Air Canada on this direct route.