Full Contents - January 2005

Who tied the bell to the tiger?
Sino-Japanese relations are close to their lowest point since formal ties between Tokyo and Beijing were reestablished in the 1970s.
Betting on the inevitable
After which the question becomes, what happens when it happens?

Traffic assistants
Chinese New Year holiday approaches - and if the season lives up to tradition, road traffic accidents should spike.
Danger, unexploded mines
China's deadly coal mining industry hit the headlines yet again with a series of fatal blasts cutting swathes through communities in central China.

Trouble in dairyland
Dutch Lady owner Friesland Coberco quits China's war-torn dairy sector, at least for now.
So, who
What will 2005 hold for a troubled auto industry? Not a lot.
New rules, new players
New laws allow foreign media companies greater access to China's exploding TV market.
Stem-cells for the people
Visiting delegation wowed by China's work in the field.
Star gazing
China, US talk space cooperation
The perfect storm
UBS on upstream, downstream trends
Arresting times in futures
Jet fuel importer CAO collapses in Singapore
If it
Disaster prone mining industry consolidates

The real news
Buying high-priced oil assets is one thing. Buying a chunk of IBM is something else.

Eye of the needle
Beating protectionists and enabling more goods to enter the US requires identifying everyone who gains from the process.

Counter culture
China's state banks are feeling the heat as the deadline for the WTO-mandated market opening approaches.

Battle of the Pacific
As China and Taiwan engage in diplomatic fisticuffs in the Pacific, the supermarkets have never been busier, a correspondent writes from the Marshall Islands.

Going global at speed
Chinese buy-ups in the PC and auto sectors
Exceptions to the rule
China and ASEAN ink free trade pact, sort of
Up in the air
China 'close to first A380 deal'
More than a pretty face
Long one of China's scenic treasures, Hangzhou is determined to add industrial muscle to its natural good looks.
The book & the translator
Once upon a time, I landed in Hong Kong and sat in the lobby of the Mandarin Hotel and looked at a notice under the glass of the coffee table containing identical information in both English and Chinese, laid out as numbered points.

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