Industry
The Greater East Asia Market
ASEAN is now Taiwan's second largest export market, making Taiwan's participation in an integrated East Asia essential. The next five years will determine whether that happens.
Industry
Taiwanese Tech's Hunt for a New Front
Taiwan's tech sector has recently been roiled with strife. Terry Gou and Barry Lam, Bob Tsao and K.Y. Lee... sworn partners have become completely estranged. Behind the discord lies a high-tech mid-life crisis.
International
A Hot Trend Sweeps Asia
One Malaysian fashion brand is ruling the hearts of ASEAN, with footwear as well-made as Western brands, designed with Asians in mind.
International
ASEAN Airline Thrives on Regional Routes
With the rising consumption power of Southeast Asia, many homegrown businesses are becoming regional giants with dominant market positions, by understanding local cultures and embracing an "ASEAN way of thinking."Air Asia is one prime example.
International
Taiwan's Trade Strategy
Taiwan once saw the world as the United States, but now all it sees is China, and forging a cross-strait economic agreement is the entirety of its current trade policy. Could Taiwan become another Hong Kong?
International
China's Southeast Asia Strategy
Within a short span of five years, a new regional cooperation strategy between China and ASEAN has turned the sleepy backwater of Nanning into China's glitzy gateway to Southeast Asia.