Alibaba’s retail Website is beefing up its group buying offerings just as Groupon appears to gear up for a launch in China. On Asia Today, Asia...
A list of what the Wall Street Journal’s reporters in China are reading and watching online, periodically updated throughout the day. (NOTE: WSJ has not verified...
Author: Tsuneo Akaha, MIIS The Russia–Japan territorial dispute over the southern Kurils/Northern Territories is heating up again. Although the Cold War has long ended, Russian President...
2010 was a tough year for China’s financial regulators. While on the face of it banks sharply reduced their lending, in line with Beijing’s decision to...
Size over speed appears to be Apple’s new strategy for tackling the China market.
China's consumer price index (CPI) rose 4.9% in January from a year earlier--the second highest reading since mid-2008, but lower than many economists had expected. Analysts...
As worshippers welcomed the Year of the Rabbit, Hong Kong's Wong Tai Sin temple ushered in an era of its own: high-tech Taoism, including a $13...
There are few observers on the scene in Tokyo today with the institutional wisdom and introspection of Toyoo Gyohten when it comes to commenting on major...
Author: Julian Dierkes, University of British Columbia Justin Li’s 2 February 2011 post is welcome in that it attempts to analyse the economic development of Mongolia...