East Asia

  • May 10, 2005
  • 7 min read

EAST ASIA: Development banks face new challenge

Development banks are thought to generate a multiplier effect in early stages of the development...

East Asia
  • May 9, 2005
  • 2 min read

EAST ASIA: Ministers move to contain frictions

Foreign ministers Nobutaka Machimura of Japan, Li Zhaoxing of China and Ban Ki-moon of South...

East Asia
  • Jan 27, 2005
  • 1 min read

JAPAN: Fuji keeps high-end investment at home

Fuji Photo Film announced new investment in the manufacture of wide-view film for LCD panels today.

Japan
  • Jan 19, 2005
  • 7 min read

EAST ASIA: ASEAN carves niche in regional FDI patterns

Fears that manufacturing operations are migrating wholesale from Japan and South-east Asia to...

East Asia
  • Jan 17, 2005
  • 6 min read

JAPAN/CHINA/SOUTH KOREA: Shrine visits to continue

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's annual visits to the Yasukuni war shrine cause considerable...

South Korea
  • Jan 14, 2005
  • 6 min read

LATIN AMERICA: Electronics outstripped by East Asia

Despite its long history of industrialisation and location advantages, the surge of globalisation...

Latin America
  • Jan 14, 2005
  • 1 min read

LATIN AMERICA: Electronics outstripped by East Asia

Despite its long history of industrialisation and location advantages, the surge of globalisation...

Latin America
  • Dec 16, 2004
  • 1 min read

EAST ASIA: Banks launch domestic-currency bond fund

A consortium of East Asian central banks today announced the launch of the second stage of their...

East Asia