Vietnam Offers Help To Companies Hit By Riots

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Vietnam on Thursday pledged to help companies whose factories were targeted during anti-Chinese riots last week, offering tax breaks and other incentives to try and undo some of the damage to its reputation as a low-risk country for foreign manufacturers.

Asia business sentiment improves in first-quarter, global worries continue to weigh

SEOUL (Reuters) - Business sentiment among Asia's top companies edged up in the first quarter, as solid improvement in the Philippines and South Korea outweighed weakness in China, India and Australia amid persistent concerns over the global economy, a ThomsonReuters/INSEAD survey showed.

Asia-Pacific may soon have more outstanding corporate debt than the US, the euro zone and the UK combined

For better or worse, Asian companies are loading up on debt at a staggering rate. By 2017, Standard & Poor’s estimated in a report this week, non-financial corporate debt for Asia-Pacific countries will balloon to $29.9 billion, assuming corporate debt is issued at the rate of economic growth (as pictured above).

Obama’s Weekly Address: Asia Pacific Region Vital to US Economic Growth

Following his nine-day trip through the Asia-Pacific, President Obama argued the region is vital to creating jobs back home and “building an economy that lasts.”