Asia Briefing provides business and investment research, advisory and opinion about foreign investment into the entire Asian region.

Founded in 1999, Asia Briefing includes investment news about China, Hong Kong, India, the ASEAN nations of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, as well as Central and Western Asia, including Asian Russia. We provide tax and free trade updates, legal and regulatory and operational articles and examine how the Asian region is becoming integrated through structures such as the Eurasian Economic Union, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, and many others.

Asia is home to 60% of the total global population and has 40% of global GDP. It is the fastest growing economic region in the world with GDP growth averaging 7.5% per annum. Consequently, global supply chains are centered on the region due to worker availability, lower production costs and skilled manufacturing labor. There are more millionaires in Asia than any other part of the world, with global foreign investment also the highest into Asia than anywhere else. Asia's middle class consumer base is also growing higher than anywhere else globally with foreign investors increasing wanting to access the Asian consumer market as a result.

Asia Briefing provides unique business intelligence to foreign investors interested in or operating in these markets. We provide regulatory updates, analysis and commentary on today's real issues concerning the foreign investor in Asia, with numerous daily online updates, regular magazines, and technical legal and tax guides to doing business in each of these markets.

Asia Briefing has won numerous awards, and is regularly praised for our detailed, innovative, and influential content.

Our editorial includes in-house researchers and analysts, and as a subsidiary of Asia's largest independent foreign direct investment practice, Dezan Shira & Associates, we feature regular updates and commentary by leading specialist lawyers, tax advisors and business advisors located on-the-ground throughout Asia.

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