Chinese investors see Europe as safe place for their moneyAsia Briefing: How do Chinese companies feel about doing business in the European Union?Tue Feb 05 2013 - 00:00
Underclass fears as workers flock to citiesA lively and eminently readable new book about China’s staggering process of urbanisation provides an excellent companion volume…Tue Feb 05 2013 - 00:00
Luxury goods sales in the bag for male fashionistasThese are tough times for the global luxury market and last year saw a pretty deep contraction in sales in China and southeast…Tue Feb 05 2013 - 00:00
Mourners pay respects for former 'king-father' SihanoukHundreds of thousands of mourners gathered in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh yesterday to pay their respects to former king…Tue Feb 05 2013 - 00:00
Masks and smog apps in polluted ChinaIn foul-smelling Beijing, pollution is obvious inside buildings, and the smog is deemed more dangerous than SarsSat Feb 02 2013 - 00:00
Entrepreneur sees the lightWILD GEESE : Ian Carroll, Hong Kong Candle Company : After a difficult start, Ian Carroll’s candle business is burning brightly…Fri Feb 01 2013 - 00:00
Joyce classic a bestseller in ChinaFinnegans Wake is just as challenging a read in Chinese as in the original, but that has not stopped readers in China turning…Thu Jan 31 2013 - 00:00
Treasury China Trust portfolio rises to €1.5bnTreasury China Trust, the Singapore-listed company in which former Treasury Holdings owners Richard Barrett and Johnny Ronan …Wed Jan 30 2013 - 00:00
China set for 'trial of century' as Bo Xilai denies corruptionChina’s “trial of the century” is expected to start next week, when former Communist Party rising star Bo Xilai faces corruption…Sat Jan 26 2013 - 00:00
N Korea threatens more nuclear testsNorth Korea ramped up its bellicose rhetoric against the United States and its allies yesterday, threatening nuclear tests and…Fri Jan 25 2013 - 00:00
Beijing's moves on pollution greeted with some scepticismThe Beijing government is hoping emergency measures will combat pollution after weeks of smog have translated into growing public…Wed Jan 23 2013 - 00:00
Earnings and sales surge at Chinese telecoms giant HuaweiChina’s largest telecoms equipment maker, Huawei, saw earnings rebound strongly last year, as sales rose 8 per cent to 220Tue Jan 22 2013 - 00:00
Pollution becoming a dirty word in ChinaPollution is out of control in China right nowTue Jan 22 2013 - 00:00
Marathon odyssey across land and waterTwo Irish adventurers emerged yesterday, bearded, bedraggled but elated, on to Shanghai’s historic Bund waterfront after their…Thu Jan 17 2013 - 00:00
Airpocalypse as pollution index goes from 'crazy bad' to 'unhealthy', then 'beyond index'BEIJING LETTER: The official news agency says the air quality is improving, but no one believes itWed Jan 16 2013 - 00:00
Chengdu building towards becoming new Silicon ValleyThe success of the “Go West” strategy to boost the poorer regions in the west of China is obvious as soon as you get off the …Tue Jan 15 2013 - 00:00
China set to take bigger bite into AppleChina is on track to one day become Apple’s biggest customer and new products by the tech firm may be launched there in future…Tue Jan 15 2013 - 00:00
Economy to overtake US in six years, academy saysChina’s economy is just six years away from overtaking that of the US, the Chinese Academy of Sciences predicts.Tue Jan 15 2013 - 00:00
Domestic work a key earnerIn many Asian countries, such as the Philippines and Indonesia, remittances from domestic helpers overseas form a significant…Tue Jan 15 2013 - 00:00
One-child China's little emperors may be paying a big psychological priceA familiar sight in China is of a baby boy, often dressed as an army general or an emperor, surrounded by a group of adoring …Sat Jan 12 2013 - 00:00
Saving Shamrock and her fellow bears from China's appetite for bileThe Asiatic black bear gave a deep growl and struggled in a rusty cage only just bigger than her giant body, as rescue workers…Thu Jan 10 2013 - 00:00
Supporters turn out to back striking Chinese journalistsHundreds gathered in southern China yesterday to support journalists at the Southern Weekend newspaper who staged a dramatic …Wed Jan 09 2013 - 00:00
China to reform system of forced labour campsChina will this year reform its hated “re-education through labour” system that allows police to jail political dissidents or…Tue Jan 08 2013 - 00:00
China eyes natural resourcesChina’s influence in Asia is sure to keep growing in 2013, and two Chinese companies have set out their stall early, signing …Tue Jan 08 2013 - 00:00
Speech sparks hopes of reformThe debate about whether the last bastion of Stalinism in Asia, North Korea, is gearing up for reform intensified last week after…Tue Jan 08 2013 - 00:00
'Copycat'design flatters architect“Starchitect” Zaha Hadid is a much admired figure in China since she built the Guangzhou Opera House, but now that admiration…Tue Jan 08 2013 - 00:00
Bright start to 2013 as optimism grows about ChinaAsia Briefing: Optimism is growing about the Chinese economy this year. Annual economic growth dipped to 7Tue Jan 08 2013 - 00:00
Seven abandoned children die in orphanage fireA fire at an unregistered home for orphans and abandoned children in central China has killed six children and one adult, according…Sat Jan 05 2013 - 00:00
Signs that bad driving is finally getting the red light in ChinaBeijing Letter: Driving in China is still a tough callFri Jan 04 2013 - 00:00
Hong Kong marchers call for Leung to resignThousands of people in Hong Kong marked the first day of 2013 with a march calling for the resignation of the city’s Beijing-…Wed Jan 02 2013 - 00:00
Taiwan keeps its relationship with China on the strait and narrowTAIWAN LETTER: Relations between the self-ruled island and China have begun to thawMon Dec 31 2012 - 00:00
Deenihan in China to expand cultural linksMinister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Jimmy Deenihan TD arrived in China yesterday for a three-day visit to discuss how…Sat Dec 29 2012 - 00:00
China tightens control of internet useChina’s Communist Party has tightened its grip on the world’s biggest population of internet users with new rules that legalise…Sat Dec 29 2012 - 00:00
Ambitions for China's economyWhen the seven men in blue suits walked out on the stage after the 18th Communist Party Congress, and Xi Jinping, the freshly…Sat Dec 29 2012 - 00:00
Flights over disputed islands raise Sino-Japanese tensionsRelations between China and Japan in the East China Sea region remain highly volatile as Beijing said yesterday it was “closely…Fri Dec 28 2012 - 00:00
Sky's the limit for property pricesAsia Briefing was in Hong Kong last week, where housing is a topic of conversation in much the same way that it used to be in…Tue Dec 18 2012 - 00:00
Dictator's daughter leads S Korea pollsSluggish economic growth is dominating presidential elections in South Korea today, with polls showing conservative candidate…Tue Dec 18 2012 - 00:00
China's wealth gap wideningFresh data shows how China’s income gap is worsening, an issue new leader Xi Jinping has resolved to tackle.Tue Dec 18 2012 - 00:00
Budget boost for business with emerging marketsThe ongoing European debt crisis and sluggish US outlook mean western economies are still offering lower returns, prompting business…Tue Dec 18 2012 - 00:00
Building on digital marketing in the Bric countriesAsia Briefing: The Digital Marketing Institute (DMI) has set up a €3 million strategic alliance with Asia’s largest IT trainer…Tue Dec 18 2012 - 00:00
International concern at North Korean rocket launchFor the second time this year, North Korea has defied international outrage and launched a long-range rocket, which it claimed…Thu Dec 13 2012 - 00:00
49 journalists in Turkish jailsTurkey has the highest number of journalists in prison, with 49 detained, according to a report by the Committee to Protect Journalists…Wed Dec 12 2012 - 00:00
The secretive Chinese leviathan that bankrolls the worldASIA BRIEFING: The world’s most powerful bank is one most people have probably never heard ofTue Dec 11 2012 - 00:00
Incoming Chinese leader signals intention to resume modernisationWhen then supreme leader of China, Deng Xiaoping, visited the southern enclave of Shenzhen back in 1992, he was making a powerful…Tue Dec 11 2012 - 00:00
How Confucian theory is back in Chinese fashionDo the institutes promote propaganda or are they instilling appreciation of rich culture that was quashed?Sat Dec 08 2012 - 00:00
Chinese state recruitment of just 92 disabled people sparks inquiry callDisability rights activists in China have called for an investigation into why the government only recruited 92 people with disabilities…Thu Dec 06 2012 - 00:00
China's market still sliding despite improving indicatorsThese are torrid times for the Shanghai stock exchangeTue Dec 04 2012 - 00:00
Striking Singapore bus drivers clash with stateIn the first strike in more than a quarter of a century in Singapore, 171 bus drivers from mainland China stayed in their dormitories…Tue Dec 04 2012 - 00:00
China considers relaxation of contentious one-child policyChina is formulating plans to change the country’s controversial one-child policy to keep economic growth on track as the population…Sat Dec 01 2012 - 00:00
Managing a luxury hotel in HanoiWILD GEESE: Philip Jones, general manager, Mövenpick Hotel, Vietnam: A graduate set off for the US as our boom was starting…Fri Nov 30 2012 - 00:00
