Despite the resurgence in travel numbers, there's a growing trend for young Chinese travelers to avoid pricey boutiques and head to free, social-media friendly locations instead.
With travelers and investors steering clear of China, look to Japan, and its leading airline in the months ahead.
The successor to Thaksin Shinawatra's party has struck a deal with the military that sees the former head of the developer Sansiri installed as prime minister.
Only India, Indonesia and the Philippines are seeing a rise in factory output, which new figures show is declining in Japan, China and Asia's chipmaking nations.
As officials engage in 'happy talk' in China but show no sign of action, emerging-markets investors should look elsewhere for Asian exposure.
Both the United States and China are delivering their visions of the world to a forum of Southeast Asian nations.
The Barbie movie will be banned in Vietnam and perhaps the Philippines because of a brief glimpse of a "cow tongue line" above an upside-down Australia.
After a very positive first six months of the year, where do we go from here?
The cryptocurrency hotbed has introduced one of the world's first laws specifically regulating how cryptocurrencies are traded and stored.
Investor uncertainty is mounting in China as 'red lines' shift on Communist Party sand.