Full Contents - February 2007


SPECIAL REPORT [Premium content]

  • Do not pass go

  • Obstacles to foreign entrants in China's logistics market may be gone, but regulatory barriers still loom large

PERSPECTIVE [Premium content]

Dispatches

  • Strong arm of the state

  • International competition is fostering a new breed of state-owned giants that will shape the "free" markets in which they operate

  • Boom today, bust tomorrow

  • China's stellar growth hides a multitude of sins. Things are in fact not so great after all - socially, environmentally or economically

View from Europe

  • Living and dying by the dollar

  • With the euro gaining against both the RMB and the US dollar, rebalancing Europe-China economic relations will not be easy

REPORTS [Premium content]

  • Rags to riches

  • Investors have propelled domestic exchanges to unprecedented heights. Can the good times last?

  • A friend at every port

  • Chinese companies are buying their way into ports in Latin America and their investments are welcome

  • Sniff test

  • Cautious opportunity for foreign fertilizer

  • Crash course

  • Getting around a break in internet communications would require significant investment. Is anyone willing to make it?

  • Secure energy

  • The energy community is keen to cooperate, but China will only do so on its own terms

  • One for all

  • With a lot of money and plenty of volatility, the most significant financial risks in China and the region could come from other markets

COMMENTARY

  • Out of the loop

  • Who is to blame for the slow response to Asia's communication breakdown?

  • Blind faith

  • China's markets may be driven more by greed than numbers

REVIEW

Fat Dragon

  • The green gambit

  • Fat Dragon opines on how environmental issues will play out at this year's National Party Congress

Punditry

QUESTION & ANSWER [Premium content]

  • Standard bearer

  • China's homegrown 3G standard is all set for commercial deployment. But while Beijing can guide TD-SCDMA to market, it cannot control the standard's growth, says the secretary-general of the TD-SCDMA Forum

SPOTLIGHT

  • English lessons

  • Britain is so keen on attracting Chinese students, its top universities are even building campuses in China

CULTURE

Book Review

  • Penchant for revolution

  • It is difficult to imagine a cult of personality so strong that an entire country throws self-preservation overboard to satisfy the whims of one man but then, Mao Zedong was no ordinary man.

Travels to the West

  • The land awakes

  • Graham Earnshaw is walking from Shanghai to Tibet when he has the time, starting always from the last place he stopped. This month we find him near Shayang, Hubei province

MARKETS

Industry Overview

  • A shopper's paradise

  • The exact size of China's retail market may be in dispute but this hasn't stopped the foreigners rushing in

Podium

  • Changing standards

  • China's Labor Contract Law is making its way toward the statute book. It means new liabilities for both foreign and domestic employers

Red Dragon Fund

FOCUS

Report

  • Sound advice for setting up

  • A few pointers on the first steps involved in establishing a business in China

  • Flex appeal

  • Virtual and serviced offices offer flexible space solutions to newly arrived companies

  • Off the hook

  • Using the internet for voice calls can make having an office in China a lot cheaper

  • Traveling without moving

  • Specialist relocation companies can take away the stress of moving

  • School’s in

  • There is no shortage of education options for expats with children in China

Q&A

  • Plugged in and powering up

  • India’s technology services sector gets all the attention, but China’s market is primed for expansion
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