
Asia Pacific Dec 5, 2020
North Korean trade hit more by COVID-19 than sanctions
Trade with China, by far the country's largest economic partner, shrank 73% through September and is on course to plunge 80% for the whole year, a trade body says.
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Trade with China, by far the country's largest economic partner, shrank 73% through September and is on course to plunge 80% for the whole year, a trade body says.
The U.S.-China trade war has reignited the debate over which developing countries in Asia could take over the mantle of the world's workshop. The front-runners? India and Indonesia. A report published Tuesday by Bloomberg Economics shows that no one nation is able to reproduce the ...
China's rampant economic growth has been a boon for exporters in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, who have supplied high-end components and machines for its factories. The risk for them now is that China will switch from customer to competitor as it ascends the ...
In some of Asia's biggest economies, young adults are living longer with their parents as they struggle to strike out on their own. The aging of the Japanese and South Korean societies, and the significant slowdown in their economic growth rates, are contributing to a ...
It was only 20 years ago that South Korea was so intent on population control that getting sterilized put young couples on the fast track for public housing. Even the army was in on the act, offering a free pass from annual military training to ...