Highlights
Hong Kong plays host to a different type of art fair this weekend - one aimed at regular folks. |
CNBC finds out the answer at Southeast Asia's first event dedicated to the art of your morning brew. |
US presidents have long deployed their wives to broaden their appeal. Now Xi Jinping, China's incoming head of state, is getting in on the act. The Financial Times reports. |
Rapid development at the expense of China's natural environment has become a major cause for discontent in the world's second largest economy, but now the government is finally bowing to public outcry, says a leading environmentalist. |
North Korea issued a direct personal attack on the South’ s new president for the first time since her inauguration two weeks ago, saying on Wednesday that her“ venomous swish of skirt” was to blame for rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula. The New York Times reports. |
It is likely to be tough, but China's new leadership needs to do less and not more if it wants an economy driven by consumption rather than investment and exports. |
Revenue of global smartphone applications in 2012 totaled $15 billion, the size of Jamaica's GDP. |
That people in one of the rainiest places on the planet struggle to get potable water is emblematic of the profound water challenges that India faces. The New York Times reports. |
China's increasingly vocal army of netizens could pose one of the biggest challenges to the new leadership. |
Don't expect a striking new look for Samsung's latest Galaxy smartphone. Here's what to look for on the inside. |
Space agency NASA says the red planet once had the basic building blocks to support primitive life. |
When Chinese authorities jailed the dissident sculptor Ai Weiwei for 81 days in 2011, they may have created a monster, of sorts: now Mr. Ai has announced that he is recording a heavy metal album, and he has traced the roots of his interest in music to his incarceration. The New York Times reports. |
Singapore is the most innovative city in the Asia Pacific region, according to a study by consultancy Solidiance. |
China's ascent to the top of the global economy is not a certainty. Many hidden structural dangers exist. Among the most important factors is the state of its healthcare system. |
Will lovers of the deluxe Chinese dish eat shark species into extinction? Anti-finning advocates are attacking shark fin's reputation as a status-boosting delicacy. The GlobalPost reports. |
One of Asia's top performing equity markets last year Hong Kong has so far underperformed in 2013, but analysts told CNBC that the Hang Seng index will get its mojo back before the end of the year. |
China’s economic rise has bred a new type of matchmaker — the love hunter — for those wishing to outsource their romantic search. The New York Times reports. |
Electricity shortages are emerging as one of the biggest brakes on India's ambitions to rise up the ranks of the world's major economies, and match regional rival China as a manufacturing powerhouse. |
Recent real estate cooling measures in China, Hong Kong and Singapore may help to remove speculators from the markets, but analysts say there's not much more governments can do to suppress prices. |
Kia has touched off an unexpected firestorm in Northern Ireland over the name of its new car. |
Dennis Rodman's trip to North Korea was the latest in a line of artists, musicians, scientists and athletes to visit this "hermit state," helping to open the Asian dictatorship to the world. The GlobalPost reports. |
The legislature of the world's last major communist country is almost certainly the wealthiest in the world, according to a popular rich list that names 83 dollar billionaires among the delegates to China's parliament. The Financial Times reports. |
China's property sector is not headed for a U.S. style crash, said Fang Fang, chief executive officer for China investment banking at JPMorgan Chase. |
Malaysian casino operator Genting envisions red and gold pagodas and a panda exhibit on the 87-acre plot of Las Vegas land it bought this week, a new gambling playground for rich Chinese. |
Samsung's next smartphone may have some eye-catching new software. |
It's already home to some of the world's most expensive properties and considered one of the most costly places to live in. Now, this island state is also one of the priciest places to own a car. |
Rumors are surfacing that The Pirate Bay, one of the world's biggest file-sharing websites, has recently been invited by North Korean leader Kim-Jong Un to set-up virtual shop in the country. The Global Post reports. |
Chinese have been scrambling for ways to get around the new housing tax, including, getting a divorce. |
The world's second largest wine company Treasury Wine Estates sees the strong Aussie dollar as a headwind, but has hit a sweet spot in China. |
Asia Squawk Box anchors tell you how to offer presents in China without being called out for bribery. |