Full Contents - November 2005


COMMENTARY

  • Corruption: From murk to markets

  • The OECD has warned that corruption is becoming a serious drag on business growth in China. But it is not that simple.

  • Shorting Shanghai

  • Lugubrious analysis has issued forth from the business media over the supposed plight of Shanghai, focusing on its under performance in the second half, as the third quarter closed.

REVIEW

  • In for the long haul

  • News Corp may have been bloodied in its latest attempt to expand further into the mainland television market, but Rupert Murdoch is not about to run away from the China challenge.

  • A private growth story

  • Private enterprise has become the real engine of China's economic growth.

  • The race to stay relevant

  • As Taiwan "hollows out", it may have no choice but to get closer to the Mainland to secure its niche in the global economy.

  • Treating China

  • The bare facts of a depression epidemic are struggling to trump cultural mores

  • "Institutionalized face"

  • Companies operating in China get in the public image game and PR firms line up to mediate.

  • Trying them on for size

  • China is adapting business models to fit its unique culture.

  • Private airlines take off

  • China gets its first private airlines, with mixed results.
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