Bhutan
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North Korea
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Economics, Policy & Regulation
Bangladesh: New Parliaments Legitimacy
MILESTONES By Thomas Clouse Bangladesh held national elections in early January despite escalating political violence and a boycott by opposition parties. The ruling party, the Awami League, easily kept control of parliament, with its candidates winning 232 of ...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Singh Backs Gandhi For Top Job
NEWSMAKERS By K.A. Badarinath Fourth-generation Nehru-Gandhi family scion, Rahul Gandhi, looked set to enter the political fray as ruling Indian...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
An Aerial View Of North Koreas Economy
MILESTONES By Valentina Pasquali In recent years a nighttime satellite image of Eastern Asia has gone viral on the Internet. The image displays the glowing, electricity-filled skies of China, Japan and South Korea, and a black hole in ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Asia: Backing The Right Horse
REGIONAL FOCUS By Thomas Clouse With China’s economy slowing, investors are pondering where the next big growth story will come from in emerging Asia. Many are betting on the ASEAN countries, which face regional, economic and political hurdles. ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Bullish US Investors In China Shop
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS By Gordon Platt As exchanges in London, Hong Kong and New York compete for the opportunity to host an expected $15 billion initial public offering by China’s e-commerce leader Alibaba, US investors are once again ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
China Speeds IPO Plow
EMERGING MARKETS ROUNDUP By Tom Clouse China’s stock market regulator will simplify the public listing process for Chinese companies selling shares on domestic exchanges. Companies with IPO ambitions now need only meet certain listing requirements; they need not ...
Award Ceremonies and Events
Stars Of China Awards Ceremony
LOCATION: WESTIN HOTEL, BEIJING, CHINA Global Finance held its annual Stars of China awards ceremony in Beijing in November. Corporate and financial leaders from across the country were present to accept their awards and honor other recipients. 1 ...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
The Most Unpopular Man In Bali?
NEWSMAKERS KA Badarinath World powers represented by US, EU and Japanese trade ministers openly disliked him. They held 60-year-old Indian trade minister Anand Sharma squarely responsible for holding up the World Trade Organization’s Doha Development Agenda discussions at ...
News
Westerner To Run Japans Takeda?
NEWSMAKERS By Gilly Wright Japan’s largest pharmaceuticals firm, Takeda, has appointed Frenchman Christophe Weber as COO in a highly unusual move designed to groom him for the role of CEO. Weber will join the firm in April 2014, ...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Why IBM Finds Itself in an Indian Bleak House
IBM in India: Kind of Blue (Bangalore photo: Vinoo202) IBM’s ongoing tussle with Indian authorities shows once again how complicated...