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The Asian Development Bank was accused in Tashkent yesterday of neglecting fisheries in its policies on food security

Asia needs to explore the idea of an “investment corporation” to help finance the continent’s development needs, especially for infrastructure, China’s vice finance minister Li Yong has suggested

Asian debt volumes are set to skyrocket in the coming years as declining risk premiums in the region relative to Europe lower borrowing costs in international capital markets

A leading member of China’s monetary policy committee has called on authorities to raise interest rates to cool an overheating economy – as the People’s Bank of China moved Sunday to hike bank reserve requirements, while leaving benchmark rates unchanged

Market jitters over withdrawal of stimulus policies and looming asset bubbles in China are weighing heavy on domestic stocks. But what happens in China may well give warning of what happens to global markets when stimuli are unwound in advanced economies

Lukoil, the Russian oil company, will invest $480 million in Uzbek natural gas fields this year as it moves to expand production from non-Russian assets

Indian infrastructure companies will not be allowed to refinance domestic debt through overseas borrowing for projects in the operating stage, the country’s finance secretary said on Sunday

Indonesia’s resilience in the wake of the global crisis has won it many plaudits. But in a second term that has been dogged by corruption scandals and unseemly politicking, the pressing question is whether President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono can push through his ambitious reform agenda

Sovereign debt burdens in the West still threaten to torpedo the global economic recovery, despite Greece’s historic bailout yesterday from the European Union and the IMF, experts have warned

In March, Malaysia’s prime minister Najib Razak unveiled the latest blueprint for the country’s economic development. But he faces a litany of problems – not least retooling a faltering economy and retaining a popular mandate

Thai finance minister Korn Chatikavanij this weekend denied there would be any regional spillover from the country’s political crisis, despite growing fears that it could dent investor confidence in southeast Asia

Philippine policy-makers say they can breathe life into the country’s flagging deficit reduction programme despite two years in which previous progress has been reversed