The worldwide economic recession of 2008 largely spared Australia, thanks to the country’s commodities, and government intervention. Since that time, Australia’s economy has continued to grow steadily. However, some industry analysts are concerned tha...

Will 2012 prove to be a year of renewal for India, or another annus horribilis? No country progresses unerringly, but India cannot afford another politically and economically torpid year like 2011. For India, last year is a year best forgotten. India h...

While Europe’s very own Greek tragedy (or Franco-German banking crisis, as some would argue) has continued to play out over the last few months, the Indonesian economy, like others in the Far East, has so far escaped relatively unscathed. Economic gr...

China has a problem, and Klaus Regling, head of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) was dispatched at the end of October with a proposal from the European heads of state to help her out. “We all know China has a particular need to invest su...

China imported an estimated $1.327trn in 2010, making it the world’s third largest importer. Trade with China has many anomalies which aren’t obvious to Western businesses, creating financial challenges, if not major risks. There is the Chinese attitu...

While five-year budget plans are always an invaluable tool for government economists and those involved in the finance industry, after the upset and uncertainty of 2005-10, economic forecasting is of interest to absolutely everyone. But while the recessio...

In November this year, CapitaLand will reach its 10-year milestone since its formation from the merger of Pidemco Land and DBS Land in 2000. Despite the difficult start where it found itself in the perfect storm of the 9/11 attacks, dot-com bust, SARS, wa...

In terms of Indian currency denominated debt, the total size of the market as of March 2010 - as per the national Stock Exchange of India (NSE) - was just over $705bn. Of this, government debt - including public sector undertakings and local government bo...

Here in this corner of the Chinese hinterland, the government has widened farm lanes into highways, turned wheat fields into an industrial park, spent a fortune on government offices, and set up a school for thousands of students in what was a dusty town ...

China plans to build 13,000km (8,078 miles) of high-speed rail lines by 2012, more than the rest of the world combined. The Beijing-Shanghai line due to open next year will halve the travel time between the two cities to five hours.Trains will travel at a...