Highlights
A watch phone? Sounds like something TV private eye Maxwell Smart would have. But as smartphone sales slow, both Samsung and Apple are said to be working on them. |
North Koreans appear to be having little trouble taking home the latest cameras, flat-screen TVs and other items from China despite U.N. sanctions. |
Asian equities could deliver gains of 20 percent by the end of the year, according to HSBC. |
More Chinese companies are investing in Australia's manufacturing and retail industries than its once sought-after mining sector, a new study by HSBC shows. |
Guaranteed for 25 years, a British bedmaker's Mongolian cashmere mattress "pays off every morning of your life," said a company representative. |
If you follow Chinese politics at all, you'll have heard of a word that's become synonymous with corruption and privilege — "princeling," the offspring of Chinese party officials. However, there are signs that these princelings could soon be replaced — by a new, female generation of "princesslings." The GlobalPost reports. |
Women who drink, long portrayed as less than respectable by Bollywood movies and still wary of entering most watering holes, are becoming big business in socially conservative India. |
Despite Xi Jinping's signal to reform, many experts are skeptical if the son of a revolutionary hero will be able to push for radical change. |
China has bypassed Britain as the world's fifth largest arms exporter, a Swedish think-tank said Monday. |
Economist Joseph Stiglitz says global economies can learn from Singapore's model of social equity. The New York Times reports. |
Bumbling and gaffe-prone, Major General Mao Xinyu has become the laughingstock for a country with increasingly mixed attitudes towards its most celebrated leader. The Global Post reports. |
Fears in China are rife that pollution is out of control after 6,000 dead pigs were cleared from a Shanghai river. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |