Full Contents - May 2005


COVER STORY [Premium content]

MAGAZINE ARTICLE

  • Getting it together

  • Chinese companies are buying to scale up to beat off the foreign competition, while foreign investors are busy buying in. It's an M&A party.

  • Water on the brain

  • And you thought wasting money was their strongest suit

  • No frills, except one

  • Private airlines have arrived in China, sort of.

  • Cross-market index

  • Shanghai and Shenzhen tie up. Right, who's in charge?

  • Malls and malls

  • China has plenty of flawed ones, precious few good ones

  • The magic is back

  • Confidence is back, property values and stocks are bouncing back. Hong Kong is back, re-tooled with all pistons firing.

  • Delicate fabric

  • The trade story of trade stories continued to concern fallout from January's ending of textile and garment export quotas - and China's growing role in the new scheme of things.

  • Robbery news, latest

  • Bank of China led the month's robery news with word of another inside job at the, ooops, IPO-bound lender.

  • Investor watch

  • Taiwan proved a ready source of news as Taipei lowered the sledgehammer on islanders trying to get some semiconductor business done on the Mainland.

  • Blame China

  • Fred Bergsten, an advocate of China revaluation that Ronald McKinnon argues against

REPORTS [Premium content]

  • Enforcing moments

  • A lthough they did not order the billion- dollar project shutdowns that got the big headlines, there were signs that China's regulators were tending to some important details in areas like the environment and healthcare, including HIV/ AIDS.

Regional Focus

  • Fixed assets

  • Control-think quickly overruled market-think as the People's Bank of China cautioned credit controls could be ramped up if inflation picked up on the back of soaring investment in fixed asset.

REVIEW

Punditry

  • Threats

  • Take the US trade deficit, for example.

  • Eating their lunch?

  • South Korea could complement China nicely. But it has to get a move on.

FOCUS

Guest Word

  • Logistics

  • China has emerged as the factory of the world,

Report

  • Rocky road

  • The wobbly state of China's auto industry got a bit of a steadying hand in March - a month that provided a better end to the quarter than what might have turned out.
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