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Full Contents - November 2007


COVER STORY [Premium content]

Cleantech

  • Clean dreams

  • Venture capitalists are sinking their dollars into China’s clean technologies

  • Liquid assets

  • Singapore’s water specialists have moved early to capitalize on cleantech opportunities in China

  • Aiming low

  • China has set an ambitious energy reduction target, but how realistic is it?

PERSPECTIVE [Premium content]

Ken DeWoskin

  • A king’s ransom

  • Fueled by foreign exchange reserves, Chinese sovereign investment is going to make a big splash

Steven Dickinson

Tom Doctoroff

  • Across the divide

  • A need for high margins and broad scale means marketers, too, must strive to forge a harmonious society

REPORTS [Premium content]

Agriculture

  • Don’t speak too soon

  • A spike in food prices has led to talk of an impending explosion in China’s agricultural imports

Investment rules

  • Exit strategies

  • A tightened M&A regulatory regime is threatening the traditional exit routes favored by foreign investors

QDII

  • Join the queue

  • Demand for foreign equity-focused funds is rampant, but can they make enough to keep investors interested?

Renewable energy

  • Blast from the past

  • Compressed natural gas is southwest China’s answer to rising air pollution and expensive oil

Underground loans

  • Money pit

  • Potentially dangerous for borrowers, underground loans may be hurting local economies

COMMENTARY

  • Grin and Bear it

  • Has the troubled bank struck gold by teaming up with CITIC Securities?

REVIEW

China Buzz

Fat Dragon

News Review

A-shares

Alibaba.com's IPO

China Eastern deal

Politics & Society

Party congress

Punditry

QUESTION & ANSWER [Premium content]

Lord Mayor of London

  • London calling

  • China will benefit by opening its doors wider to foreign business expertise, says the Lord Mayor of London

SPOTLIGHT

India

  • Money markets

  • China brings in the cash while India plays a game of catch up

  • Bringing in the money

  • In China and India, dealmakers face two very different businesss environments

CULTURE

Book Review

Joe Studwell: Asian Godfathers

  • Pulling the strings

  • Asian Godfathers: Money and Power in Hong Kong and South-East Asia, by Joe Studwell; Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007; US$26.00

Travels to the West

  • The wisdom of youth

  • 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 still in the Yangtze Gorges in the west of Hubei province

MARKETS

Investment

Alan Alpert, Deloitte

Red Dragon Fund

  • Party time... for now

  • The Communist Party Congress gave stocks a boost but, going forward, things are less certain

FOCUS

Guest Word

Chris Hughes

Ray Hill

  • Get them covered

  • Private health insurance can improve public health in China if the government plays a more active role

Report

AIDS/HIV

  • Fighting the epidemic

  • How intellectual property rights affect the level of access to HIV/AIDS drugs in China

NGOs

  • The gift of sight

  • Nonprofit organizations are trying to stop cataracts in rural China but they need more state support

Pharmaceutical

  • Testing bed

  • China offers a combination of value and volume that makes it well-suited for clinical trials outsourcing by foreign pharmaceutical firms

Q&A

Liam Condon

  • East versus West

  • The general manager of Bayer Schering Pharma on China’s drug market and how it compares to the West
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