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Malaysia will assume the chairmanship of ASEAN in 2015. However, a survey by the ASEAN secretariat in 2013 indicated that the average Malaysian lacked …

China’s rejection of the international process represented by the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague is both a missed opportunity and a …

Taiwan faces a multitude of challenges in its efforts to be involved in regional economic integration. One major challenge is that few free trade agreements …

It is good news for the Korean economy, which has been struggling with sluggish domestic consumption, that the country’s tourism revenue has been sharply …

The Constitutional Court’s decision on Dec. 19 to disband the small leftist Unified Progressive Party upended Korean politics. By an 8-1 majority, the …

Combining expansionary policy measures with structural reforms has been cited by economic policymakers here as a sensible approach to reinvigorating the …

When the U.S. Federal Reserve ended its quantitative-easing program in October, it also ended the primary driver of U.S. stocks during the past six years. So …

In Ian Fleming’s 1957 spy novel, “From Russia with Love,” the British Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond escapes from an assassination attempt …

Former World Bank president Bob Zoellick encapsulated American policymakers’ hopes for a growing China: China should become a “responsible stakeholder” …

The U.S. recovery is starting to look halfway respectable. Europe’s economies, meanwhile, face the risk of a third recession in seven years. There’s a …