September 2007
- COVER STORY [Premium]
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Take with caution
Will recent product safety scandals finally bring order to China’s drug market? Big Pharma has its fingers crossed -
Servers and developers
China is carving out a niche in the pharma outsourcing market while local developers still wait for lift off -
Generic growth
China is coming from behind and challenging India in an industry it has traditionally dominated -
Patent power: IP protection
Chinese law and patents and pharmaceutical compounds -
Test cases: Clinical trials in China
For pharma firms looking to test their products on a blank canvas, China has a large number of "naïve" patients that have not been exposed to other treatments.
Pharmaceuticals
- SPECIAL REPORT [Premium]
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Commodities are king
Mining companies are rushing to market to take advantage of a commodities boom -
The coal minefield
Stock market listings are part of a wider plan to streamline China’s coal industry
Commodities
- REPORTS [Premium]
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Costly degradation
With Beijing stalling on its Green GDP, plenty more pollution cost calculations have emerged -
Where's the beef?
China doesn’t have enough cattle to meet beef demands. Foreign exporters smell an opportunity -
MICE trap
With the Cotai Strip’s opening, Macau is looking to diversify from hard-core gambling towards business tourism -
Bridging the divide
Rural reforms in a small village near Chengdu spurred social change that has won the city special zone status -
Subprime time
Chinese banks are well-insulated from the meltdown in America’s low-end mortgage market -
Smoke and mirrors
Big Tobacco must race against regulators and a global anti-smoking movement as it seeks salvation in China
Environment
Food
Macau
Rural reforms
Subprime crisis
Tobacco
- QUESTION & ANSWER [Premium]
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Voice of experience
Opportunities abound in China’s technology sector but finding the right deal is never easy
Robert Haddock
- SPOTLIGHT
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Culture & commerce
How a quaint city in southern China bridges trade between Muslims and Chinese -
At your service
CEO Choe Peng Sum of Frasers Hospitality on the in-demand hospitality service apartments sector
Middle East
- MARKETS
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Musical chairs
China’s stock market has made strong gains but everyone still dances to the institutions’ tune -
Fact Sheet - the Dispute with Mr. Zong Qinghou
Danone responds to our article -
Danone v. Wahaha
Steven M. Dickinson on the lessons to be learned from the tensions within China’s largest beverage joint venture
Red Dragon Fund
Podium
- FOCUS
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In the zone
Industrial zone real estate tips and market trends -
Two become one
China’s first cross-border park links trade under two political systems -
Changzhou rising
Shanghai too expensive? Try neighboring Changzhou -
Electric dreams
How does China’s “Silicon Valley” stack up against the real thing? -
The best of the west
Chengdu hopes to develop as a technology and logistics hotspot -
Reaching for the summit
Suzhou’s ambitions to become a tier-one city -
Industrial zones: News in brief
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Understanding the China market
The executive director of logistics services at CB Richard Ellis identifies the trends and opportunities of China’s industrial zones
Guest Word
Report
News briefs
Q&A
- OPINION [Premium]
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Chasing a modern Silk Road
Recent investments must become future reforms if cargo is to be moved efficiently overland from Asia to Europe -
Few alms for the poor
Income inequality may be soaring in China but rural India is still more finely balanced -
The murky world of a policy lender
Now a shareholder in Barclays Bank, China Development Bank is a lender with its finger in many different pies
Supply Chain Watch
Dispatches
Beijing Calling
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Behind the wall
The A-share market is closing on 5,000 points and in fine form. Or so you’d think -
China’s place in the world
This still has the potential to be China's century. But it will not be a straight-line ascent -
Balancing out?
- REVIEW
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Shopping overseas
As Beijing invests its growing wealth, it may have more trouble with the nationalists at home than the protectionists abroad -
Individual access
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Still soaring
China's stock market soared while global exchanges tumbled on subprime woes -
Cooling measures start to kick in
Falling industrial output could mean the government's cooling policies are working -
CDB hits the big time
CDB's involvement in the ABN-Amro deal is a new strategy for the policy lender -
Toy story
After a suicide and two massive global recalls by US toy-maker Mattel, the product safety issue has reached a boiling point
Fat Dragon
Punditry
News Review
Politics & Society
- CULTURE
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That's capitalism!
Graham Earnshaw walks from Shanghai to Tibet when he has the time, always starting from the last place he stopped. This month we find him near the Three Gorges Dam, Hubei province -
Solid service
There was a moment towards the end of the Cultural Revolution when nobody seemed to understand exactly what was going on.
Travels to the West
Book Review
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