Ensuring long-term peace in Asia requires an active role for Japan. By pursuing reforms that enable it to defend itself better, Japan would enhance its capacity to forestall the emergence of a destabilizing power imbalance in East Asia – with far-reaching benefits for Asia and the rest of the world.

A retreat for vistors to the Canton trade fair and antidote to the city’s coffee chains

Strong showing by services is encouraging, but some analysts doubt the numbers

Strong showing by services is encouraging, but some analysts doubt the numbers

Government’s mouthpiece newspaper accused of blackmail and bribes to bury news

Alternatives to US-led plan include bilateral free trade agreements and Xi Jinping’s ‘New Silk Road’

Chinese B2C e-commerce website JD.com announced that the company has built its first research and development center outside Asia in California's Silicon Valley. This new R&D center will help American retailers, business partners and various brands to establish and enlarge their influence in China via the shopping platform of JD. Locating in Santa Clara, the […]

For China's second-generation rich kids, investing is the surest and fastest way to squander their wealth, quips a Chinese commentator. Compared to a Macau excursion or a sumptuous birthday party, one could lose millions of Yuan much more efficiently when investing. Jokes aside, the Fuerdai, a Chinese phrase referring to the second generation of the […]

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Third-quarter GDP figure just high enough to get by

Mountain View, California-based DNA testing firm 23andMe, Inc. has completed US$115 million series E financing round led by Fidelity Management & Research Company, with participation from new investors including WuXi Healthcare Ventures. Other investors include Casdin Capital, Illumina, New Enterprise Associates, MPM Capital, and Google Ventures, also joined the funding round, according to an announcement. […]

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China’s GDP growth slowed to 6.9% year-on-year in the third quarter 2015, down from 7.0% during the first half, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics. Domestic activity indicators remained low in September, with fixed asset investment increasing 10.3% year-on-year during the first three quarters, below the target of 15% this year. […]

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Improving services sector pushes growth past expectations

Unclear how much of $3.5tn reserves is deployable

Since Lord Macartney’s refusal to kowtow to Hong Kong’s handover, power has clearly shifted

Commercial opportunities justify the gamble on goodwill

Every aspect of British state to be thrown open to China leader during lavish four-day visit

Pursuit of investment in critical power assets draws fire

Apparent fall of the well connected middleman reverberates across Africa