George Wehrfritz

At face value, China's latest GDP numbers look impressive. Official figures released last week show that the world's fastest-growing major economy expanded 6.8 percent last quarter and 9 percent during all of 2008.

The public siege of its airports may be over, but the country's political crisis is just heating up.

An interview with Jim Walker, who predicted China's slump long before the crisis hit.

As the factory to the world, China may be the nation most vulnerable to collapsing global demand.

Japanese firms flush with cash are acquiring rivals all over the world.

Corporate big spenders may have to fold as the credit crisis exposes their debt.

The fallout from China's housing slump is now spreading fast, to makers of car, steel and more.

SBY says there's no reason Indonesia can't grow faster than China.

China's crisis is the opposite of America's.

Asian nations are not strangers to financial crises. An expert's take on what it will take to turn things around.

Even the best Asian companies are hurting.

Asian economies—and the once booming sectors that drove them—face a spate of new challenges.

The real enemy of demonstrators threatening to shut down the country is globalization.

Thailand's emergency rule may play into the hands of rebels who want to bring the democratically elected government down.

Two efforts to redraw the poverty line in Asia find that millions more are barely getting by.

The pundits laughed at Thaksin, but his economic populism is spreading in Asia, even as he leaves.

Four directors discuss the evolving role of theater in exploring sensitive issues like sex, race and politics.

Factories are closing in the Pearl River Delta, just as Beijing planned. The next step is even harder.

Is China the financial equivalent of the scariest celestial body in the universe? In a new report that crunches Beijing's opaque numbers, analysts at Standard Chartered Bank in Hong Kong argue that the country's foreign reserves "seem to have turned into some kind of massive black hole for the world's liquidity." They calculate that China drew in a staggering $324 billion during the first four months of 2008, of which $119 billion was "unexplained" by either the country's yawning trade surplus...

Not all prices are rising in China. Shares on the country's main stock exchange have fallen 50 percent in eight months.

Asian exporters helped buoy the global economy; now, stagflation is threatening their growth miracle.

To stretch their battered food dollars, Americans are turning to a much-maligned staple: Spam. Sales of the canned meat product rose 10 percent over the previous three months as inflation-hit consumers used it to replace pricier cuts on their menus.

U.N. boss Ban Ki-moon is scrambling to open up aid to Burma's cyclone survivors. Is his approach the right one?

The world's poor are paying the price for years of bad government policy in agriculture.

A growing back channel of global trade tricks millions into forced labor.

The world could be one crop failure away from an actual food crisis. Market panic has already started.

Urging Beijing to seize the chance for cross-strait détente

We need a new Green Revolution, led by biotechnology, to meet the growing demand for grain in Asia.

Electric cars for tooling around town--a review. 

Plug-and-play electric cars for urban drivers are pushing the envelope on green. Just don't try gunning them—yet.