Naomi Rovnick

After decades of striking cushy natural resources deals in Myanmar under terms that Western corporations governed by anti-bribery legislation would probably balk at, Chinese natural…

In his latest video, South Korean rapper PSY makes life in the country seem glamorous and carefree. That may be true for residents of Gangnam…

Government bonds tend to do well when investors think a nation’s situation is improving, but fall in value when sentiment is negative. So a really…

Reported cases of the H7N9 strain of avian flu are increasing in number and geographical spread throughout China. New cases reported this weekend took the…

A link from Reuters Venezuela’s ruling party candidate and acting president Nicolas Maduro has narrowly won the country’s presidential election, meaning the nation has chosen…

China’s slowdown is hardly deflating the nation’s real estate bubble. The country’s GDP growth slowed to 7.7% in the first quarter of this year, compared…

China’s stockpile of foreign exchange reserves has now reached $3.44 trillion, which was a $128 billion increase in the three months to March and swells…

Indonesia’s much-hyped economic boom is making people’s quality of life, in some aspects, significantly worse. The reason? Shoddy infrastructure, which causes gridlocked traffic and is…

Japanese brands have had a difficult time in China since the two Asian nations began rowing furiously over a set of uninhabited islands in the…

Myanmar’s economy is forecast to grow over 6% this year as new foreign investment surges into the former hermit kingdom, but Western companies have been…

Because of China’s mounting bad debt problem, its banks are being told by regulators to rein in their lending. But the banks, under pressure themselves…

Abenomics, the money printing, yen weakening plan spearheaded by the Bank of Japan at the behest of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, is meant to bring…