Asia Pacific

Hong Kong Tourism Board chairman Peter Lam Kin-ngok is warning that the growing antipathy among the territory's people towards tourists from mainland China threatens the retail and catering sectors.

Getting money out of China to safe havens abroad consumes much time and ingenuity for many Chinese.

Canadians are losing interest in strengthening social and economic ties with Asian countries, concludes the Asia Pacific Foundation’s (APF) annual National Opinion Poll: Canadian Views on Asia published June 10.

Surprisingly, perhaps, the first telephone call made by India's new prime minister, Narendra Modi, after taking office at the end of last month was to his Chinese counterpart, Premier Li Keqiang.

Cadbury breathed a sigh of relief last week after laboratory tests in Malaysia said the candy company's products contain no pig fat.

Cambodia's cabinet has approved a new five-year National Strategic Development Plan that envisages spending $26.58 billion – an average of $5.3 billion a year, until 2018. But as the entire government budget this year is only $3.

There are concerns that international sanctions against North Korea, aimed at dismantling its nuclear weapons program, could be a casualty of Pyongyang's warming relations with Japan.

There are mounting predictions that China's property bubble is about to burst. “I think Chinese property is the Titanic about to crash into the iceberg, said Pan Shiyi, chairman of commercial developer SOHO China, last week.

The man likely to be Indonesia's next president, Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, says he wants to see more processing of the country's mineral wealth before export, and a total reform of the chaotic energy sector.

Once focused primarily on resources, overseas money is now flowing into other sectors