It has also launched a mobile application that delivers news content via BlackBerry and iPhones.

The company said these investments in Asia had translated into an increased print circulation of 6.3 percent year-over-year for the January-to-June period, with particularly significant growth in Hong Kong, India, Malaysia and Taiwan.

Average daily circulation for the print publication has increased to 85,822 copies, from 80,706 year-over-year.

The 63-year-old Far Eastern Economic Review was founded by Eric Halpern, an immigrant from Vienna based in Shanghai who moved to Hong Kong during the civil war in China.

It was first published in Hong Kong as the Far Eastern Economic Review in October 1946.

In 2004, the magazine was switched from a monthly to a weekly format.

The company said current subscribers would be offered a one-year subscription to the Asian online edition of the Wall Street Journal.