Asia Economy

July 6, 2009

India Budget Disappoints Investors

Trapped between a stuttering economy and a spiraling deficit, India's newly reelected government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh decided on July 6 to toe a middle ...

July 6, 2009

Guangdong: Reenvisioning Guangzhou

In Parts I and II of this report from South China's Guangdong Province, the core region of China's economic reforms and opening up, I presented Party Secretary Wang ...

July 6, 2009

GM's Korea Problem

Even as Asia remains a bright spot for General Motors, its Korean subsidiary looks more like the hapless parent company than GM's fast-growing Chinese operations. GM ...

July 2, 2009

Advantage, India: Are Indian CEOs Better than U.S. Execs?

As the economic slowdown takes root across the world, business leaders everywhere are grappling with varying degrees of its intensity and depth. While some countries ...

June 30, 2009

North Korea's GDP Growth Better Than South Korea's

When it comes to economic performance, it's hard to believe that impoverished North Korea could do better than its affluent capitalist neighbor to the south. South ...

June 29, 2009

China: A Look Back at a Missed Opportunity

By the late 1980s, China's economic takeoff was well under way and the benefits of free-market reforms were abundantly evident. Yet as he traveled the booming coastal ...

June 24, 2009

Monsoon Delays Could Hurt Indian Economy and Singh's Chances

Delayed monsoons could hurt not only India's nascent economic upturn but also the resurgent Congress party's electoral prospects in state assembly elections due later ...

June 23, 2009

Coke Committed to China Expansion

Muhtar Kent, chairman and chief executive of Coca-Cola (KO), isn't letting the company's failed bid to acquire a Chinese rival stand in the way of his enthusiasm for ...

June 22, 2009

Best Overseas Retirement Spots: Retiring Outside the U.S.

The choice of retirement destinations now spans all corners of the globe and caters to a wide variety of tastes. Here are the top 22, ranked according to cost of living

June 16, 2009

Yen's Renewed Strength Weighs on Japan's Exporters

Japan's economy is showing signs of life and manufacturers are again ramping up production, after months of cutbacks. Even the central bank, whose forecasts tend to ...

June 15, 2009

Guangdong Visions: Responding to the Crisis

In Part I of this report on what's now happening in Guangdong province, the center of China's low-cost manufacturing power, I presented the vision of Communist Party ...

June 15, 2009

World's Most Expensive Cities 2009 : Japanese Cities Rise to the Top

Japanese cities hold four of the top five spots in the annual ranking of the world's priciest cities by ECA International

June 12, 2009

Indian Government Targets Return to 8% GDP Growth

Montek Singh Ahluwalia, the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission, is backing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's view that India will return to 8-9% growth in the ...

June 12, 2009

India: Strategies for Consumer Goods

Heads didn't turn when Coca-Cola (KO) and Pepsi (PEP) hiked prices on some of their most popular beverages in India last fall. Even in the downturn, both companies ...

June 10, 2009

State Spending Masks Weakness in Indian Economy

As countries around the world saw their economies crumble in the past year, Indians took solace in the fact that their country had escaped relatively unscathed. With ...

June 9, 2009

Anxious Japanese Are Working Themselves to Death

With Japan's export-based economy showing signs of recovery, many of the data coming out of Tokyo lately are positive. Most economists expect Japan's gross domestic ...

June 9, 2009

Who Drinks the Most Milk?: The Dairy Industry Worldwide

Growth in the U.S. dairy market is flat, while the dairy markets in China and India are growing quickly

June 5, 2009

Guangdong Visions: A Talk with Wang Yang

With the global financial crisis choking off exports and squeezing the economy, China's leaders have voiced different views on what best to do: Some have called for ...

June 4, 2009

Sony and Samsung's Larger LCD Ambitions

TV buyers around the world have benefited hugely from a fierce battle among Korean, Taiwanese, and Japanese manufacturers to dominate in the liquid-crystal display ...

June 3, 2009

Long March Ahead for China's Automakers

The 2009 Shanghai Auto Show feels a step away from chaos. Waves of visitors beat against the displays, grabbing recyclable bags filled with product literature as ...

June 1, 2009

India Inc.'s M&A Spree Will Outlast the Recession

There was a time when Westerners assumed that an Indian in the head office of a multinational or Western company was either an accountant or a computer nerd. Nowadays,...

June 1, 2009

Geithner's Peking University Speech

The United States and China, Cooperating for Recovery and GrowthTreasury Secretary Timothy F. GeithnerSpeech at Peking University - Beijing, ChinaJune 1st, 2009 It is ...

June 1, 2009

India's Top Global Companies: Elections Brings Hope

While the financial crisis has made overseas deals more difficult, many Indian companies hope to become global players

June 1, 2009

Fund Managers Urge Caution on China

China has long been the focus of attention for investors looking for a long-term growth story in emerging markets and specifically in Asia. Although the market has ...

May 31, 2009

Treasury's Geithner Faces an Assertive China

One might think China's top leaders would warmly welcome Timothy Geithner in his May 31-June 2 visit to Beijing. After all, Geithner, who once studied Chinese at ...