Full Contents - May 2006


PERSPECTIVE [Premium content]

  • CHINA BUZZ

  • Notable quotables on China

  • The harbor remains fragrant

  • Those who claimed reunification with China would see Hong Kong slip underestimated the region's commercial savvy. Nearly a decade on, business is still booming

  • China discovers its soft side

  • Firms are adapting to life in the global commercial market by tending to their deficiencies in management and communication. Corporate training is in vogue

  • How to put the PR in PRC

  • From press conference set pieces to talking down stock prices, the fourth generation of Chinese leaders appears to be learning how to massage the message

  • The free market bites both ways

  • Recent unrest in France is evidence of the challenges Europe faces in regenerating its industries as globalization swings in favor of emerging market competition

COMMENTARY

REVIEW

  • Primed to deliver

  • The usual suspects have virtually monopolized China's international express delivery market. Now they are looking to add the growing domestic sector to their portfolios

  • On the high-tech track

  • Inter-city magnetic levitation is the most fuel-efficient high-speed transport system ever devised - and it will help China ride the advanced technology boom

  • Tills ring to the tune of T3

  • Leading international supermarket chains are accelerating store roll-out with an eye on consumers in emerging third-tier cities

  • Bulls lurk for the blue chips

  • The axing of a popular economics TV show deprived the market regulators of a few valuable home truths. But bring in the blue chips and all will be well
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