The Asia File

Local and international journalists queue up outside 54 University Avenue, the family residence of Aung San Suu Kyi, where she was detained...

Today the Financial Times has published a special edition magazine to commemorate the 50th anniversary of man going into space. Below is ...

If you want to understand why Vietnam is mired in economic instability, I'd urge you not to read this story on the state-owned Voice of...

My latest post for the Financial Times' Beyond Brics blog: Throaty song-writing legend Bob Dylan and 90s teen favourites the Backstre...

Vacancy – News assistant for the Financial Times, Hanoi The Financial Times , one of the world’s leading business news organisations, rece...

My colleague David Pilling has written a great column in today's FT , arguing that, despite much hand-wringing, Indian companies are as ...

Life is not easy when annual inflation is more than 12 per cent, your currency is likely to be devalued again shortly and you have to splash...

While a select class of wealthy Vietnamese men like nothing more than cracking open a bottle of Johnnie Walker with their mates at a karaoke...

Whether you're a luckless street kid, an ambitious Communist party apparatchik or an upstanding foreign investor, there are few greater ...

The last time Vietnam's Communist Party met for its all-important five-yearly national congress, Twitter, the 140 character micro-bloggi...

Apologies for the lack of posting. This blog has been through its fair share of changes over the last few years, starting out as part of The...

It's been a while since I penned my last Taxi Tale, a regular blog series dedicated to the insightful anecdotes, witty repartee and occa...

When U2 releases a statement  sharing Bono and The Edge's views on Southeast Asian politics, you know it's time to take a major real...

The right to denounce thy neighbour, comrade, colleague or family member is one of the fundamental building blocks of any self-respecting, s...

Singapore’s government likes to be number one. If you want proof, look through any speech by a government minister. They will invariably ree...