After China's loosening of its one-child policy, living costs are deterring couples from having more than one child.

With 600 courses nationwide, golf's a growing sport in China. Daniel Richardson tees off.

MGM Resorts has scouted the world's biggest fish market as a potential site for the casino resort it wants to build in Japan.

Ann Huston travelled with her sons to the Chengyang Wind and Rain Bridge in China’s Guangxi province.

Japan's program of monetary stimulus, fiscal stimulus, and structural reforms hasn't created as much growth as proponents hoped it would.

Robert Colvile finds delights away from the decadence in Phuket.

Samsung, the global leader in mobile-phone sales, is being outflanked in the key markets of China and India by newcomers, Xiaomi and Micromax, catering to domestic tastes.

The Japanese consumer lender at the centre of a scandal over loans to gangsters that engulfed Mizuho Financial Group sold debt at about a fifth of the premium global companies pay, as investors search for yield.

The eastern Chinese city of Suzhou is joining a national rush for the sky with what's slated to become the world's third-tallest building.

Exclusivity and privacy is still available for a family holiday in the sun, even at bustling Phuket, finds Leanne Chamberlin.

Finance centre Hong Kong is revealing a greener side, hidden in her outlying islands and among the densely packed streets. Sophie Barclay investigates.

In just four years, Xiaomi has evolved from startup to outselling Apple in China by offering inexpensive devices packed with high-end features.

Yvonne van Dongen gets a telling off about her improper tea drinking habits from her Basil Fawlty-esque guide in the Cameron Highlands.

Sumo wrestlers come in all sizes, finds Brett Atkinson, but the man mountains are the most fascinating.

A modern-day Chinese emigration wave is already underway, and the US is their preferred destination, with buyers snapping up $11b worth of US properties last year.

Travel back in time from the war cemeteries of Gallipoli to the ancient wonders of Istanbul.

Companies in Japan are among the world's most vulnerable to cyber attacks, and threats against state entities have more than doubled since 2010 to one every 30 seconds.

The pachinko industry in Japan wants casinos, driven by attendance that has sunk more than 60 per cent since the mid-90s and an uncertain legal status.

Buyers from Greater China spent $22 billion on US homes in the past year, up 72 per cent from the same period in 2013.

Boeing predicts demand in Asia will push commercial aircraft sales to $5.2 trillion over the next 20 years.

Travelling from Chau Doc to Ho Chi Minh City, Nick Redmayne encounters an optimistic country.

So busy is Audrey Young reflecting on the meaning of life at the Haeinsa Temple, that she doesn't even get around to breaking open her emergency rations.

Not all beer drinkers want to grab a cold one. Molson Coors Brewing discovered this in China where drinking cold liquids is widely seen as undesirable.

Japan's cultural barriers may seem immense but Sarah MacDonald finds getting to know the locals in the busy city can be easy.

Graham Reid considers the lifelines of India.

Taiwanese festivals are a dazzling frenzy of colour and noise, finds Justine Tyerman.

In the mid-1990s, Gus, a polar bear in the Central Park Zoo, alarmed visitors by compulsively swimming figure eights in his pool, sometimes for 12 hours a day.