Following Singapore’s selection as the top Asia-Pacific City of the Future in fDi ’s 2011-12 rankings, Courtney Fingar meets with Dr Beh Swan Gin, managing director of the city-state’s Economic Development Board, to get his reaction.

Roopa Kudva, CEO and managing director of Indian rating agency and analytical company Crisil, has overseen the company's impressive international expansion of recent years, and has introduced some unconventional – and effective – methods along the way.

Barbara Njau talks to Pushpanathan Sundram, deputy secretary-general for the Association of South-east Asian Nations economic community, ahead of a November summit which focused upon the region’s strategy of promoting itself as a top investment destination while ensuring greater regional integration.

Car manufacturing was among the hardest-hit sectors during the global financial crisis. However, the industry is undergoing a revival in Asia, where it is helping to drive the region's recent economic growth.

Singapore has retained its position at the top of fDi's Asia-Pacific Cities of the Future ranking, ahead of Shanghai and Seoul. Chinese cities performed particularly well, but the effects of recession and natural disaster have seen Tokyo fall from second place to ninth. Rachel Craig reports.

Leading global operators are turning their attention further east, eyeing mineral-rich Mongolia’s potential to become the next commodities hub in the Asia-Pacific region.

With emerging economies in Asia and Latin America driving global growth, co-operation between countries in these regions is set to accelerate.

India's FDI inflows are dipping and some investors are voicing their frustrations with the government's restrictive policies and laws.

While it is Asian cities that dominate fDi's most attractive ICT destinations ranking, the US is still comfortably the lead country.