Author: Arthur Alexander, Georgetown University Japanese companies’ obsessive attachment to investment carries serious negative consequences because investment does not pay as well as it could. Too...
While Chinese stocks struggle to attract US investors, private-equity groups are seeking to buy out some of these companies, with funding provided by State-owned China Development...
Author: Peter Drysdale, Editor, East Asia Forum After decades of struggle to overcome political repression and deprivation, Myanmar appears on the way to democracy. This achievement...
Author: Pradumna B. Rana, RSIS On 3 May 2012, on the sidelines of the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Annual Meeting in Manila, ASEAN+3 took a number...
Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Security guards at the Great Hall of the People on Sunday, the eve of the National People’s Congress The Dow Jones Newswires-Wall Street...
Author: James Boyers, London In August 2007, India began a tender process to acquire 126 medium-range, multi-role jet fighters to replace its ageing Mirage fleet. In...
Author: Shankaran Nambiar, MIU, Malaysia The Najib government has given renewed focus to Malaysia’s international economic relations, including liberalisation and increasing interaction with the global economy....
Wang Yubing, a marketing manager at a Fortune 500 multinational company in Shanghai, recently began thinking about quitting his respectable and secure job to start a...
Author: Rajiv Kumar, FICCI The Luddites have won for the moment, with their recent protests following the Indian government’s decision to allow FDI in the retail...