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Both Japan and the Philippines are attempting to engage China in new ways to settle disputes over sovereignty claims in the South China Sea.

The region’s free ride is nearly over. The workforces of China, Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan will start to shrink soon, writes David Pilling

Many Vietnamese, who have centuries of resentment stashed up against the dominant culture, believe China has strangled local industry at birth, writes David Pilling

Unlike in the west, there is little debate in Asia about how well the stimulus worked. It has been spectacular. Asian output is well above pre-crisis levels. HSBC is predicting growth for Asia ex-Japan of 8.6 per cent this year, writes David Pilling

In human casualty terms, typhoon Bopha could be more than five times as catastrophic as hurricane Sandy, writes David Pilling

During the middle of the last decade, it seemed as though Chinese and Indian stocks were only heading higher. Between 2005 and 2008, China’s equity markets soared 219% while Indian markets rose 181%. However, from 2009 through 2011, impaired by a volatile global economy, Chinese equities floundered in negative territory and, over the same period, Indian equities were barely in the black.

Strong investor demand for access to markets in south-east Asia’s second-most populous nation prompts government to offer debt denominated in local currency