Asia’s emerging superleague

Which are Asia's strongest companies? With the region's corporates facing difficult market conditions, declining stock prices and a credit squeeze, the difference between Asia's many underperformers and its increasingly global star players is likely to grow. Asia's leading analysts gave their views of the best companies by sector and region in Euromoney's annual survey. The results contain a few surprises. In the Indian sub-continent - included this year for the first time - Pakistan's companies are rated higher than their counterparts in India. Research by Rebecca Dobson