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• Yoshikami: Buffett Bashers Unite! Monday, 22 Nov 2010 | 11:31 AM ET

  

  After Warren Buffett wrote an op-ed piece in the New York Times restating his belief that the intervention of the government was a success, and in published reports reiterated his view that taxes should be raised on the affluent, critics howled...It is my view that anti-Buffett rhetoric is really a smokescreen for critics protesting the interventionist activities of the Bush and Obama administrations when financial markets froze in 2008.

• North Koreans Unveil Vast New Plant for Nuclear Use Sunday, 21 Nov 2010 | 10:26 AM ET

  

  North Korea showed a visiting American nuclear scientist earlier this month a vast new facility it secretly and rapidly built to enrich uranium, confronting the Obama administration with the prospect that the country is preparing to expand its nuclear arsenal or build a far more powerful type of atomic bomb, the New York Times reports.

• US Fears Grow Over Catching Japan Economy Slowdown Sunday, 31 Oct 2010 | 8:57 PM ET

  

  American policy makers have long been confident, even during the darkest days of the current financial crisis, that the United States could avoid the fate of Japan and its two lost decades. But that has changed, reports the New York Times.

• Chinese Computer Trumps US One as World's Fastest Thursday, 28 Oct 2010 | 9:55 AM ET

  

  A Chinese scientific research center has built the fastest supercomputer ever made, replacing the United States as maker of the swiftest machine, and giving China bragging rights as a technology superpower. The New York Times reports.

• In India, Workers Find Humor in ‘Outsourced’ Monday, 25 Oct 2010 | 8:16 AM ET

  

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• Japan Goes From Dynamic to Disheartened Sunday, 17 Oct 2010 | 9:47 AM ET

  

  Like many members of Japan’s middle class, Masato Y. enjoyed a level of affluence two decades ago that was the envy of the world. Masato, a small-business owner, bought a $500,000 condominium, vacationed in Hawaii and drove a late-model Mercedes.

• Asia Is Still the Best Place to Invest In: Economist Wednesday, 1 Sep 2010 | 5:37 AM ET

  Asia remains "the best part of the world to be in" as it has a very "superior" economic growth story, said Kevin Grice, senior international economist at Capital Economics on CNBC Wednesday.

• Who Will Win the 2010 FIFA World Cup? Wednesday, 7 Jul 2010 | 7:40 PM ET

  Only four nations are left standing in the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Which team do you think will win the world's biggest sporting event? Vote now in this "Squawk Box Asia" poll.

• China Weighs Tighter Controls on Rare Elements Thursday, 3 Jun 2010 | 11:13 AM ET

  

  China is planning to tighten its control over its rare earth minerals by allowing just a handful of state companies to oversee the mining of the scarce elements, which are vital to some of the world’s greenest technologies. The NYT reports.

• Stable Outlook for Asian Banks: Moody's Monday, 1 Feb 2010 | 3:50 AM ET

  Asia's banking sector will return to stability this year driven by better economic conditions throughout the region, said Deborah Schuler, senior vice president for financial institutions group at Moody's Investors Service.

• Mongolia -- The New Hot Spot for Investments Wednesday, 18 Nov 2009 | 3:17 AM ET

  Mongolia is the new hot spot for investment as it has the resources that China needs, said Mandar Jayawant, managing director at Frontier Investment Partners.

• Riding the Cycle Thursday, 2 Oct 2008 | 6:11 PM ET

  These are turbulent times for investors. How do you keep the wealth you have intact? That's the  question we've posed to analysts on CNBC Asia and this is what they have to say. 

• Stiglitz: Kuroda's Move May Reduce Japan's Debt 

  

  Joseph Stiglitz, Professor at Columbia University and 2001 Nobel Prize Winner explains how the central bank's stimulus program will improve the debt to GDP ratio if it successfully ends deflation.