The Silk Road is far more than a historic trading route that connected the people and traditions of Asia with Europe.

Europe is more attractive than the U.S. and Asia, where there are fewer opportunities for restructuring.

We’re expecting operating profits to increase by 20% [to $4.4 billion] for the quarter, aided by strong sales in the U.S. and Asia and the weaker yen.

We’d never seen anything as green as these rice paddies. It was not just the paddies themselves: the surrounding vegetation – foliage so dense the trees lost track of whose leaves were whose – was...

In my view, Asia is doing quite reasonably well for communicable diseases that now we have reached the point we can afford to discuss suicides and mental health problems in general.

I’d learned so much from traveling to familiar places that I figured I’d learn twice as much by going to a place I knew nothing about.

Taiwan is probably the most dangerous situation in East Asia at this point,

Il senso della ricerca sta nel cammino fatto e non nella meta; il fine del viaggiare é il viaggiare stesso e non l’arrivare.

In Paris the cashiers sit rather than stand. They run your goods over a scanner, tally up the price, and then ask you for exact change. The story they give is that there aren’t enough...

Everybody can entirely write off their exposure to Russia and this quarter earnings would suffer, but that would be the end of it and things will keep chugging along. It’s not just Russia. They are...

For Singapore, it bodes well for its efforts to be a hub for Southeast Asia, offering companies international investors they can tap.

Asia is an entertainment, Europe is a dream, America is an imprisonment and Rest is a nightmare.

It was one of those striking moments in life where you find familiarity in the inexplicable.

Through his dedicated and sustained efforts in Bangladesh, Laos and other countries in south-east Asia, Dr. Gupta made small-scale aquaculture a viable means for over one million very poor farmers and women to improve their...

Russia is unable to increase its exports without cheap gas from Central Asia to compensate for a deficit on its domestic market.

We shouldn’t avoid the fact that Pakistan has some misgivings about China’s strategy in South Asia, and we need to strengthen mutual confidence.

It is like taking the tires off cars. It was a real sudden impact for the entire industry including Asia and Europe and everywhere that sells foam surfboards.

The EU took many years to establish such an economic union. This is a proposal from Japan to East Asia to take the first step toward an economic community.

There were signs everywhere but none that I could read or even hope to decipher. These multi-lined symbols unhinged my familiar world.

In Japan, however, if you against someone and create a bad atmosphere, your relations may break-off completely. People tend to react emotionally, and most are afraid of being excluded from the group.