David Pilling - Financial Times

David Pilling is the Asia editor of the Financial Times. He was previously Tokyo Bureau Chief for the FT from January 2002 to August 2008. His column ranges over business, investment, politics and economics.

He joined the FT in 1990. He has worked in London as an editor, in Chile and Argentina as a correspondent and covered the global pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry.

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Children across Asia are being denied the incalculable benefits of breastfeeding

Banks and non-banks alike have proved adept at circumventing regulations

Japan must move to a new equilibrium based on mild inflation

Sanctions have failed to stop the country developing nuclear weapons

Former Eton housemaster Richard Pratt talks to the FT’s Asia editor about China, the land where his true education began

Don’t expect a rash of strikes or demands for collective bargaining

Naypyidaw has much to gain from playing east off against west

David Pilling meets the Hong Kong property tycoon offering a $65m dowry for his daughter

The city is finally addressing its pollution problem but is not going far enough

Hints of domestic reform do not mean North Korea will moderate its foreign policy

The Philippines is finally picking up economic momentum, but this rapid growth has passed over the vast majority of the poor

Rulers embody tensions boiling up in the region

The will of the people is still strongly behind The Lady. Even in the isolated villages of the Irrawaddy Delta, people conjure her name as if it were magic

In human casualty terms, typhoon Bopha is almost five times worse than hurricane Sandy

The differences in the elections in Asia’s second and fourth-largest economies are striking

After failing to defeat deflation for 15 years, the BoJ could do with a fresh approach

The government should give the Rohingya people the protection they need

Jeet Thayil’s ‘Narcopolis’, pipped at the post for this year’s Booker, is a nostalgic evocation of the vanished opium dens of the city he refuses to call Mumbai

The task that awaits Hu Jintao’s successor will be formidable

The leadership selection process is out of step with progress made in many areas of society

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