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Asia defies forecasts and keeps growing during crisis

Greece is in danger of default, Dubai is still smarting from corporate collapse, and 9.7 per cent of the US workforce is out of a job. In much of Asia, though, the question on people's lips is: crisis, what crisis?

Malaysia became the latest Asian country to report unexpectedly strong growth in gross domestic product for the fourth quarter of 2009 yesterday, with a 4.5 per cent rise over the equivalent period a year earlier.

Hong Kong also beat forecasts when it announced a 2.3 per cent increase over the previous quarter. On Monday, Taiwan announced a rise of 9.2 per cent from a year ago, and Thailand saw comparable growth of 5.8 per cent.

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