Is there an 'unhealthy correlation' between skyscraper building booms and economic collapse? One bank thinks so...

Getting to North Korea is, in reality, easy and it is certainly the oddest country, but is not for everyone writes Chris Pritchard.

Bhutan is small and spectacularly isolated, tucked away in the eastern Himalayas between India and China.

This stunningly-situated monastery, perched high in Bhutan's mountains, is one of the country's most popular tourist sites.

Andrew Stone surveys some of the more remarkable trends and breakthroughs which may - or may not - come to pass next year

Charlotte and Mauricio continue on to the Laotian city of Luang Prabang before heading to Thailand.

Earthquake linked us with Japan in a year of loss but the scale of the destruction on March 11 was overwhelming

Fears over North Korea's nuclear bomb hide a deeper truth, writes Jared Genser.