Asia's exports stutter, missing out on U.S. revival

HONG KONG: The U.S. economy may have stopped sneezing, but Asia's exports are still laid up with a nasty cold. Growth in exports from seven of East Asia's biggest exporters - Japan, China, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Hong Kong and Singapore - slowed to a halt in the second quarter, according to national trade data compiled by Reuters, led by a 9 percent drop in exports to the European Union compared to a year earlier.

Asian Economies Show Signs of Strength

SINGAPORE—Asia's economies are showing resilience as 2013 gets under way, with a variety of data indicating manufacturing and growth are starting to pick up, just as short-term uncertainty is lifting on the U.S. fiscal cliff.

Economists rethink Asia's doom-and-gloom scenarios

HONG KONG: The glass is half full again for Asia's economies. Some economists have begun downplaying the darkest of the worst-case scenarios for Asia now that Europe appears to be muddling through its debt crisis without imploding and the United States finally shows signs of a self-sustaining recovery.