THE MORE North Korea has faced tougher economic sanctions from the international community in the last 10 years, the more passion for business success among people there has built up, said Geoffrey See, founder of Choson Exchange, a Singapore-based non-profit organisation that runs training programmes on entrepreneurship in the communist regime.

WUXI, China - Asia is racing ahead to build the fastest and most powerful computers in the world. The Straits Times looks at how China is flexing their muscles in the supercomputing arena.