21. Human Rights in Asia
(Panorama/Society)

... the country. However, torture and other ill-treatment, extrajudicial executions, deaths in custody and administrative detentions remained rife in a number of states. New legal initiatives to outlaw torture ...

22. Views of Asia's next generation
(Panorama/Society)

... A generation born from 1978 to the early 1990.  This is Asia's Generation Y or Millennial generation.  They are almost 1.5 billion in number. The parents of today's young Asians knew hunger and revolution.  ...

23. India's urban squalor
(Panorama/Society)

... that you read this very human story set amidst the poverty and prosperity of rapidly changing India.  For the moment, here are a number of extracts which give us some insights into life in the Mumbai slum ...

24. The Economist on China
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... age Chinese fell as a share of the population, and soon their number will begin to shrink.  China is in a unique position of being a country which will grow old, long before its becomes rich, and therefore ...

25. Korea -- Asia's rising star
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... tops the OECD list with public debt of over 200% of GDP. In its recent report, the OECD highlights a number of priorities for policy action areas to continue the catchup process. Korea's population ...

26. China's reform challenges
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... old before it becomes rich.  The world economy on which China has depended for its economic development will likely remain much more dangerous phase for a number of years.  Further financial crises cannot ...

27. Japanese business -- from old to new Japan
(Panorama/Investment)

... based on flexibility and fast maneuvering.   These companies have embarked on a journey to “choose and focus”, meaning to choose a limited number of businesses to operate in (and exit the others) and ...

28. Poverty in India
(Panorama/Development)

... poverty line of consumption of $1 a day, 34% of Indians live in poverty.  This number shoots up to the alarming 80% if one uses $2 a day as a poverty line, giving it a similar level of poverty to Bangladesh ...

29. Asia's uneven development
(Panorama/Development)

Asia has wowed the world with its massive reduction in the number of people living on less than $1.25 a day, the standard measure of extreme poverty.  The region has thus achieved the first Millennium ...

30. China's lack of global leadership
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... public enemy number 1!   For example, of all the anti-dumping cases brought to the World Trade Organisation this past decade, fully one-quarter of them have been leveled against China.  Management ...

31. Human development in Asia
(Panorama/Development)

... Australia, Netherlands, and United States.  New Zealand comes in fifth, ahead of a number of countries with higher gross national income, thanks to its high life expectancy and good education performance. ...

32. Beating global poverty?
(Panorama/Development)

... the percentage and number of people living in poverty at the $1.25 a day level has fallen between 2005 and 2008 in all the world's developing regions, namely, East Asia, South Asia, Latin America and the ...

33. Urbanization in Asia -- 12 things to know in 2012
(Panorama/Change and innovation)

...  7.  Between the years 2000 and 2010, Asia showed the greatest gains in moving people out of slum conditions, with the PRC and India together lifting around 125 million people. However, the absolute number ...

34. Whither China's economy?
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... in the increasing number of industrial disputes in China. Third, China's economy is unbalanced in that the nation's four large banks provide privileged access to finance for the China's large state-owned ...

35. Asia's services challenges
(Panorama/Change and innovation)

... Tokyo only ranks as number 5, after London, New York, Hong Kong, and Singapore in The Global Financial Centres Index.  Both Hong Kong and Singapore are ranked above Japan in the World Economic Forum's ...

36. China, India and Indonesia -- safety first, please
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... which could take place at any time ..." "Since early 2010, police have disrupted a number of terrorist groups in North Sumatra, Lampung, Banten, Jakarta and Central Java. Police continue to conduct operations ...

37. Youth and development in Asia
(Panorama/Society)

... investing in youth will boost economic growth, reduce poverty, and make us all better off. This is especially the case for developing countries whose youth number 1.3 billion, or almost one-quarter of ...

38. Gender equality and development
(Panorama/Society)

... girls now outnumber boys in secondary schools in 45 countries, and there are more young women than men in universities in 60 countries.  And women are now living longer than men in all parts of the world. ...

39. Japan's triple crisis -- one year on?
(Panorama/Change and innovation)

... elite is also very appreciative of Japan's product security and street safety, and can be already be seen emptying its pockets of yen in large numbers in the streets of Tokyo, on the ski slopes of Hokkaido ...

40. Competing with China?
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... tourists coming from any other country) and higher education (China sends the highest number of students to Australia). Australia has a "comparative advantage" in all of these exports, and gains greatly ...