Maldives is hoping to set out the welcome mat to foreign investors by establishing a one-stop-shop to reduce the investment approval process to just ten days, an official said on Wednesday.
China is considering relaxing its "green card" policy by lowering the application and approval threshold, a move to attract more foreign talent.
U.S. experts have said the recent upheavals in Vietnam will damage its reputation of good business environment and have a negative impact on its economic growth.
China's 7.4 percent economic growth in the first quarter has dismissed fears about a possible "hard landing" of the world's second-largest economy, as some pessimists predicted.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Thursday pledged to give equal treatment to foreign companies in China, and create an operation environment with fair competition.
Australia's leading foreign policy think-tank, came out swinging, Wednesday, on the dormant debate over a "Big Australia" an Australia that seeks to assume a greater role in regional affairs through ambitious social, economic and eventually military growth.
Thailand's caretaker government has planned to brief world diplomats based in the capital on an alleged conspiracy to depose the elected government by taking advantage of legal loopholes and with the help from independent agencies.
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a list of state-owned enterprises ( SOEs) to undergo the process of equitising and restructuring in 2014-15 as a set plan to help secure confidence from foreign investors.
The number of foreign passengers traveling through Kansai International Airport in the western Japanese prefecture of Osaka has reached its highest level since the air hub's opening in early 1990s, local press reported on Wednesday.
The Afghan Taliban kidnapped nearly 50 local employees of a mine clearance agency in the country's western province of Herat on Tuesday morning, sources said.
China will open up seven telecom value-added services to foreign capital in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, with five allowing for full foreign ownership, a senior telecom official said Tuesday.
Changes to a raft of measures on foreign investment approval and admission control within the pilot free trade zone (FTZ) in Shanghai were announced by the Chinese government on Monday.
Vietnam's economic hub Ho Chi Minh (HCM) City welcomed over 4.1 million foreign visitors in 2013, a year-on-year increase of 8.1 percent, according to the City's culture, sports and tourism department on Thursday.
Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey's decision to block U.S. food giant Archer Daniel Midland (ADM)'s bid for Australia's GrainCorp risks encouraging protectionists to lobby against foreign investment proposals even more strenuously in the future.
About 6,000 companies have applied to register in Shanghai's free trade zone (FTZ) within two months of its launch, the administrative committee of the FTZ said on Thursday.
About 6,000 companies have applied to register in Shanghai's free trade zone (FTZ) within two months of its launch, the administrative committee of the FTZ said on Thursday.
Singapore's Media Development Authority has notified owners of a local socio-political commentary website to register under a class licensing scheme, the media regulator said on Wednesday.
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