Incident adds to concern about plant safety in Asia and is latest disaster to strike the supply chains of the international garment industry

May 16, 2013

Three killed at Wing Star Shoe Co. sneaker factory outside Phnom Penh

May 16, 2013

Anwar Ibrahim foresees a ‘Malaysian Spring’ awakening, but his party must first overcome the governing National Front’s strong economic record

May 03, 2013

Dispute over pleasure cruise to islands claimed by Vietnam just the latest row between Beijing and its neighbours

Apr 29, 2013

The South is pulling its staff from Kaesong Industrial Park, a signal to the North of the price of belligerence

Apr 26, 2013

Comments about Second World War invasion provoke howls of protest from Beijing, Seoul

Apr 24, 2013

China’s multibillion-dollar Dandong New District sits virtually empty, a victim of Pyongyang’s unfulfilled reform promises

Apr 23, 2013

Thousands of Russian troops, backed by tanks and warplanes, poured into the tiny republic of Chechnya in December 1994, sent to crush the region’s dream of independence

Apr 19, 2013

A 20 yuan (about $3) cup of cappuccino at Peter’s Coffee House comes with a view of the trucks that lumber each morning across the dark-metal frame of the Friendship Bridge that links this comparatively glittering corner of northeastern China to the greyness that is North Korea on the opposite bank of the Yalu River

Apr 16, 2013