Bloomberg Donald Trump’s rise is the latest setback for India’s ambition to become a factory for the world. Having missed the export-driven steam-boat that transformed China and fellow East Asian economies over the past several decades, India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi had pinned hopes on an ambitious “Make in India” campaign to make up lost ground. With the ...

  AP Pakistan’s top civilian and military leaders travelled to the country’s southwest on Sunday to open a new international trade route by seeing off a Chinese ship that’s exporting goods to the Middle East and Africa from the newly-built Gwadar port. The first convoy of Chinese trucks carrying goods for sale abroad has arrived in Pakistan amid tight security ...

  Bloomberg Vietnam expects economic growth to accelerate in 2017 as it boosts domestic businesses to shield the economy from worsening global uncertainty following the election of Donald Trump as US president. “Trump’s victory adds uncertainty to international financial markets and global trade would be affected,” Vu Viet Ngoan, chairman of the National Financial Supervisory Commission, which advises Prime Minister ...