Full Contents - February 2005

A disaster presents an opportunity
Anyone who has experienced the feeling of losing a child swept up in a crowded street has had a moment's glimpse of the agony brought on by December's tsunami that ripped across South Asia.

Don't stop coming now
Indonesian Ambassador Aa Kustia urged Chinese to keep the archipelago on their travel agendas,

Good neighbor policy
China pledged US$63m in relief funds, sent medical teams to some of the worst-affected areas and cancelled the debts of countries hit by the December 26 tsunami disaster.

Groundswell, where art thou?
McKinsey & Co on the cons of investing in China
Under the volcano
Despite warming relations, India and China have old problems to sort out, and new ones to come.
Reforming the parts
Sinopec bought back listed shares of its Yanhua plastics unit. Was it a one-off event, or a sign of more to come?
On the move
Now the world is starting to focus on China's latest exports - tourists.
China
Despite a few clouds, the economy should enjoy another year of stellar growth, and lower inflation.
Bitesize NPLs going down nicely
For those willing to dig around, there are deals to be had for small bad loans. Prospects may finally be looking up for weighty deals too.
Bank regulators catch auditors
Increasingly emboldened by success,

Japan descendant
Japanese need to get with the program, as China has
Remaking Western China
When Vincent Lo sizes up a development opportunity, he takes a very long-range view.

Leadership by degrees
China's current crop of leaders almost all hold engineering diplomas. But as China completes its integration into the global economy, leaders with MBAs will be needed - and international MBAs at that.

Tsunami strikes, Beijing moves
December's tsunami brought a terrible toll, but also a revealing glimpse of a changed China.

Broken brokers
Life won't return to the market till the losers are fixed or wound up.
Insurance industry broadens and deepens
Ping An Insurance (Group), China's second biggest insurer,
China scores car and aircraft export successes
In perhaps a sign of things to come, China has scored possibly landmark car and aircraft export deals.
Energy ambitions flicker
Overseas plays dominated the energy news - and it seemed a case of one step forward,
Carmaker
State-owned Dongfeng Motors, China's fourth-largest automaker,could raise less than half its initial expectation of US$1bn in its first overseas IPO later this year, sources involved in the sale told Bloomberg.
Capital growth
Get set for the birth of 'New Beijing' - a high tech, futuristic capital befitting the world's new economic powerhouse.
The clash of arrogances
Lord Macartney was a British diplomat just as Britain was to become the most powerful empire on the face of the earth,

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