2:08pm

Wary Korean consumers reflect broader ills

Weak retail conditions highlight sagging momentum in economy

2:44am

South Korean growth hits three-year low

GDP 1.5% higher in fourth quarter than a year earlier

From US & CANADA 6:40pm

Mumbai attack plotter jailed for 35 years

Relatively lenient US sentence will aggrieve Indian government

JAPAN 2:43pm

Japan records its largest trade deficit

Weak exports and strong yen contribute to Y6.9tn shortfall

This file picture taken by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on December 12, 2012 shows North Korean rocket Unha-3, carrying the satellite Kwangmyongsong-3, lifting off from the launching pad in Cholsan county, North Pyongan province in North Korea. North Korea said on January 24, 2013 it planned to carry out a third nuclear test and more rocket launches aimed at its "arch-enemy" the United States in response to tightened UN sanctions, but offered no timeframe. ©AFP NORTH KOREA 6:42am

North Korea threatens new nuclear test

Pyongyang says missile programme ‘targeted’ at the US

From COMMENT Jan 23, 2013

No US peace dividend after Afghanistan

Bad decisions exact a high price, write Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes

NORTH KOREA Jan 23, 2013

N Korea defiant in face of new sanctions

Pyongyang’s response fans speculation of imminent warhead test

Economic Revitalisation Minister Akira Amari, speaks to Jonathan Soble of FT ©Ko Sasaki JAPAN Jan 23, 2013

Japan fires back at currency critics

Economy minister rejects German admonishments

Visitors browse through books at a bookstand during the Jaipur Literature Festival in Jaipur on January 22 2012 ©AFP INDIA Jan 23, 2013

Hindu activists target book festival

Calls to withdraw Pakistani authors from India’s literary fair

Activist Somyot Pruksakasemsuk arrives at criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand on Wednesday, January 23 2013. The court has sentenced the prominent labor rights activist and magazine editor to 10 years in prison for publishing a pair of articles prosecutors said defamed the country's monarchy. ©AP Jan 23, 2013

Thai activist sentenced over royal insults

Court says magazine editor published articles defaming monarchy

NORTH KOREA Jan 23, 2013

UN expands sanctions on North Korea

China backs moves against companies linked to rocket launch

Notebook from COMMENT Jan 22, 2013

Smoking out the tree-hugging set

There is a nascent sense that some Chinese are getting fed up with the consumer society, writes Patti Waldmeir

JAPAN Jan 22, 2013

BoJ action triggers currency war fears

Pledge to buy bonds in potentially unlimited quantities

Editorial from COMMENT Jan 22, 2013

BoJ takes first step on road to inflation

But the central bank needs a more dovish governor

Jan 22, 2013

UK woman sentenced to death in Indonesia

Cocaine worth $2.5m found in suitcase in Bali

JAPAN Jan 22, 2013

Reluctant BoJ given deflation-beating role

Central bank adopts 2% inflation target

Jan 22, 2013

Manila takes territorial dispute to court

Halt to Beijing’s activities in South China Sea sought

CHINA Jan 22, 2013

China’s lottery boom sparks social fears

Gambling is illegal but sales of the state-run lottery are worth $40bn

JAPAN Jan 22, 2013

Abe envoy wants islands dispute shelved

Japanese lawmaker leaves for China to deliver letter from PM

From COMMENT Jan 21, 2013

The weibo generation can reboot China

Social media are a battlefield for expression, say Jonas Parello-Plesner and Michael Anti

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