Full Contents - March 2007


SPECIAL REPORT [Premium content]

PERSPECTIVE [Premium content]

Beijing Calling

  • Bound to work

  • China’s leaders have blown away the bureaucracy and given the corporate bond market a much-needed shot in the arm

China from the Outside

  • Communication problems

  • As the plight of the communications industry shows, China’s service sector needs a boost. Progress is being made, slowly

Dispatches

  • Hugging the bear

  • Ties between Beijing and Moscow are at their best in years. But old suspicions may yet return

View from America

  • Shades of star wars

  • The fallout from China’s anti-satellite missile test is bad for both Beijing and Washington

REPORTS [Premium content]

  • Taxing real estate

  • Tax changes may have sent real estate shares plunging, but property prospects across China remain bright

  • Silver chopsticks

  • A top-notch hospital finds consumers willing to pay premiums for luxury care

  • Problem solvers

  • China’s science community moves towards a more market-oriented mindset

  • Money for old water

  • For smart investors, China’s woeful environmental stewardship is money in the bank

  • Ho Chi Minh express

  • Enviable growth rates have made Vietnam a worthy alternative but China will gain more than it loses

  • Ironing things out

  • Having learned its lesson in 2006, China quietly negotiated a new iron ore price.

COMMENTARY

REVIEW

Fat Dragon

  • Baby, it's coal outside

  • China needs a powerful, independent environmental watchdog that can override local party officials. In other words, they need the kind of institutions that exist in an open and democratic society

News Review

Politics & Society

Punditry

QUESTION & ANSWER [Premium content]

  • In it for life

  • China’s insurance market may be officially open to foreign players but barriers remain as far as ING’s head of operations in the country is concerned

SPOTLIGHT

  • Wireless wishes

  • Why is China stubbornly holding out for its own 3G gear when Korean companies offer 4G standards and speeds?

  • The hungry north

  • North Korea may no longer be locked in famine, but feeding its people remains a challenge

CULTURE

Book Review

  • Precarious security

  • The Writing on the Wall: China and the West in the 21st Century
    The China Business Environment: An Annotated Bibliography

Travels to the West

  • The casino operator

  • 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 Dangyang, Hubei province

MARKETS

Industry Overview

  • Onward and upward

  • In the past few years, China’s manufacturing industry has made a high-tech shift from toy cars to flat screen TVs

Podium

Red Dragon Fund

FOCUS

Guest Word

Report

  • Origins of the MBA

  • The French created the business school but the Americans perfected it. A look back

  • Worth its weight in gold

  • MBAs can help graduates earn more. But how do you pay for it in the first place?

  • The China conundrum

  • Is it wiser to study in China’s sizzling economy or escape the heat and risk missing out?

  • Continental drift

  • Asia is now bursting with business schools, although the US and Europe are no slouches. A breakdown of the options

  • Join the club

  • Universities like to trumpet their accreditations. But what do those acronyms really mean?

Q&A

  • Making the cut

  • Wharton’s director of MBA admissions reveals how China applicants are evaluated

News briefs

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