Chinese wine
“Would you like the Great Wall Terroir with your sea cucumber, sir? Or may I recommend the Chateau Sungod?” Oenophiles in China might hear that muffled bit of…
China property prices extend decline
Home prices in China continued to fall in April, more than two years after the government began property tightening measures, an indication that prospects for a rebound remain…
Asian equities: signs of maturing
Markets to People’s Bank of China: is that all? China’s weekend credit easing – the central bank reduced the amount of cash that banks must hold as reserves,…
China’s investment boom starts to unravel
©Reuters In an unguarded moment in 2007, the man anointed to take over next year as the helmsman of the world’s second-largest economy revealed his doubts about China’s…
China, Japan and S Korea to discuss free trade
BEIJING, May 13 – Chinese premier Wen Jiabao urged northeast Asian powers to co-operate more in the face of global economic headwinds, as China, Japan and South Korea…
India’s growth threatened by old abuses
During a recent breakfast with an investor visiting Mumbai from a large western fund, the conversation quickly turned to the question of the moment: what ails India? These…
India inflation climbs higher
Inflation in India has picked up again, delivering a blow to the hopes of Indian business leaders’ that the country’s central bank would further cut interest rates. The…
India’s industrial output drops
India’s industrial output has contracted for the first time in five months, in the latest sign that the sovereign debt crisis in Europe and slowing consumer demand at…
India to boost exports with subsidies
India is set to reintroduce incentives to revive the country’s flailing export sector in a fresh attempt to boost its slowing economy and rein in a rapidly widening…
RBI moves to prop up the rupee
India’s central bank intervened on Thursday to prop up the rupee a day after the struggling currency had fallen to its lowest ever rate against the dollar. The…
Clinton warns India over Iranian oil
Hillary Clinton, US secretary of state, urged India to do more to reduce its oil imports from Iran, as part of Washington’s continuing efforts to curb Tehran’s nuclear…
