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Report on Business

Asia-Pacific

Focusing our global lens on Asian-Pacific business news, including China, India, Japan and other economies across the Pacific

Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on March 13, 2012.

At Bank of Japan, no good deed goes unpunished

China
Shoppers at a Wal-Mart store in Beijing. Lowering taxes for the poor and consumers will make China’s people feel richer, and spend more.

We've seen this China story before—in Japan

Construction workers prepare steel rods at a building site in central Beijing on Monday. Recent economic data has spurred more speculation on how long China can wait before taking more dramatic action to stimulate its economy away from the threat of a hard landing.

Beijing eyes more stimulus as manufacturing slows

Japan
Japan's Yoshihiko Noda.

Fitch cuts Japan's debt rating

A woman in a traditional 'Kimono' carries shopping bags at a shopping district.

Japanese consumers lead rebound in first quarter

Australia
An iron ore train car enters BHP Billiton's loading facility in Port Hedland, Australia. Iron ore made up half of BHP's earnings, with underlying profit from the core ingredient in steel rising 36 per cent to $7.9-billion.

BHP, Rio in bargain territory? Dig beneath the surface

Michael Sabia speaking to the media about La Caisse de Depot outlook for 2012.

Caisse delves further into infrastructure projects

India
Indians in the state of Jammu shout slogans during a protest against the hike of petrol prices by nearly 11.5 per cent countrywide on Thursday, May 24, 2012.

India protests on petrol price hike may delay diesel reform

A worker changes the window display of Thomas Cook in Loughborough, central England December 14, 2011.

Fairfax unit to buy Thomas Cook India for $150-million

More Asia-Pacific news
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde at the African Consultative Group (ACG) meeting in Washington April 22, 2012. With more and more of the world's economy based in emerging nations, there are calls for more institutions to be based outside traditional power centres in the U.S. and Europe.

A step toward equity among global financial authorities

Asian equities: signs of maturing

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