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Female faces - a rare sight in Asian politics and business
IF CHINA'S economy continues to grow at its current rate, Asia will soon account for more than half of global gross domestic product. China alone is likely to surpass the United States in total GDP in...
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Common interests between Japan and South Korea outweigh territorial disputes
SOUTH Korea is Japan’s third largest export market, after China and the United States. Japan’s exports to South Korea in 2011 were US$66 billion, accounting for eight per cent of its total exports....
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Park Geun-hye is favourite in South Korean election
SOUTH Korea goes to the polls on December 19, 2012, in what could prove to be an historic election. One of the two candidates is a woman who, if elected president, would become the first female leader...
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Women take back seat in Asian politics and business
Asia will account for more than half of global GDP at some point in the next 10-20 years. According to a widely-accepted estimate by investment bankers, Goldman Sachs, China is poised to overtake the...
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Japan seeks trade deals with EU, China and South Korea
AS WELL as officially entering negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Tokyo is pushing the free trade agenda ahead on two other fronts – with China and South Korea on one hand and the EU...
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East Asian regional powers play blame game as tensions rise
THREE factors have increased geopolitical uncertainty and volatility in the Asia-Pacific since 2012. Leadership changes in China, Japan and South Korea and lower-than-expected economic growth - leading...
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Peace hopes fade after North Korea’s latest nuclear test
NEW Year’s Day 2013 was a rare moment of hope for observers of North Korea. That was when the country’s leadership intimated that it wanted to pull back from the cycles of dangerous nuclear...
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South Korea culture 'to blame' for ferry tragedy
THE POPULATION of south Korea is grief stricken over the Sewol ferry disaster which has claimed 244 lives with 58 people still missing. High school students were among those trapped in their cabins as...
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TPP stalls as China and South Korea agree tariff-free deals
THE AMBITIOUS Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) project, aimed at establishing a comprehensive free-trade zone around the Pacific with the United States and Japan in the lead, has been at a standstill...
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Russia primes Kim Jong-un as a weapon of payback
THE UNITED States and South Korea recently held joint military exercises. North Korea retaliated by firing seven missiles into the Sea of Japan. Situation normal, one might think. Yet,, below the...
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Little chance of South Korea and Japan allies healing political rifts
SOUTH Korea’s President Park Geun-hye and Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came to power in autumn 2012 but have failed, so far, to heal the deep political rifts between their two countries, writes...
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North Korean regime angers Beijing over border crossings and diplomatic slights
IN THE DEMOCRATIC People's Republic of Korea, a country in never-ending crisis, not only civilians are starved. Hungry army troops regularly steal food from farmers and recently even began to venture...
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Kim Jong Un’s ambition ratchets up tension between North Korea and China
IT IS HARDLY a secret that there is little love left between Pyongyang and Beijing. How badly the relationship has deteriorated could be seen in early September 2015, as the 70th anniversary of North...
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