A grenade blast wounded more than 50 anti-government protesters in Bangkok, fuelling fears of clashes ahead of a big rally in the Thai capital planned by government supporters

Tough times are hitting the fake luxury goods trade. It seems that more and more Chinese consumers would rather rent the genuine thing than buy a fake

A big hypothesis beckons: India is a highly unequal democracy in a bad neighbourhood, and so long as its democracy, inequalities and regional misfortunes remain unreformed, it will be vulnerable to terrorism

Indian commandos managed finally to wrest control of two of the three buildings taken by militants in one of the worst terror attacks on Indian soil. Officials reported that the death toll had risen to 155 at nine locations with about 327 wounded

Gorden Chen became one of the first Asian officials to step down because of the global financial crisis, quitting just four months after he took office