December 2007
COVER STORY [Premium]

Corporate bonds

(FREE) Starting afresh
Corporate bonds are under new management but glitches in the market remain
Judgment day
Can local credit ratings agencies make the grade with the foreigners sitting on the sidelines?
Banker’s gambit: The PBOC steals a march
Too many cooks: Regulatory confusion
Access problems: Waiting to rate
CER Events

Manufacturing industry workshop

In the zone
Services and specialization are the buzzwords for China’s first-tier industrial parks
MAGAZINE ARTICLE
Bursting the bubble
SPECIAL REPORT [Premium]
Against the grain: Ma snubs the US

Alibaba.com

Granting a wish
Having sent shock waves through the business world with its massively successful IPO, what’s next for Alibaba.com?
The halo effect
Alibaba.com’s IPO is casting the business-to-business market in a flattering new light
REPORTS [Premium]

Boutique hotels

Not so small-time
Tiny boutique hotels are giving giant chains a run for their money

Coal mining

Shafted
Coal mining is often unsafe and never well paid. But miners in Henan province will take what they can get

Intellectual property rights

Stuck in the slow lane
Despite pressure from the US, China is still dragging its feet on intellectual property rights protection

Journalism

Trust no one
Faith in China’s institutions appears to be falling

Marketing

The prestige gap
Reports of the decline of foreign brands are either spot on or greatly exaggerated

Online television

Digital direction
IPTV is losing out to DTV as Chinese television embraces the next generation of technology
Boxed out: No more free football
English Premier League football could entice Chinese viewers to pay for their TV programs
QUESTION & ANSWER [Premium]

Chris Ryan

Money magnets
The future is bright for both inward and outward-focused equity funds, says ING Asia Pacific’s head of investment management
SPOTLIGHT

India

Going private
India is opening the door to the private sector as it looks to reinvigorate struggling industries and maintain robust economic growth
MARKETS

Red Dragon Fund

The expected slowdown
A 6,000-point SCI now seems a distant memory as uncertainty takes over the market

Investment

The man behind the money
China needs good dealmakers to coordinate its outbound investment
FOCUS

Q&A

The tech challenge
Microsoft’s enterprise services manager on providing the tech systems that will run the Olympics
On the right track
The vice-chairman of India’s Planning Commission seeks Sino-Indian cooperation

Guest Word

Stumbling blocks
The push for a “high-tech” Olympics has experienced a few setbacks

Report

Green games?
Beijing tries to clean up its act
Brand awareness
Competition is fierce as advertisers vie for maximum exposure at next year’s games
Let the games begin
The spirit of the Special Olympics fuels anticipation for 2008
OPINION [Premium]

Dispatches

Don’t look now
China and the EU are turning a blind eye to corruption and suppression as they battle over Central Asian energy
A hollow victory
PetroChina’s A-share listing grabbed headlines, but small investors and the state were both denied a bigger slice of the profits

View from Europe

The usual suspects
Trade deficits and currency concerns are inevitably on the EU-China agenda for 2008. And possibly some textile tensions as well

Web Worm

Judging Yahoo
The US internet firm erred in its dealings over the Shi Tao case, but to what extent should it be damned?
COMMENTARY
An agency with teeth
China’s sovereign investment fund can make waves at home and abroad
The dam question
The Three Gorges Dam has been controversial, but necessary
Mobile leviathan
REVIEW

Politics & Society

The space race
November was a busy month for China's space program

Fat Dragon

Beijing’s oil angst
Deregulation of oil prices must come eventually

China Buzz

Warren Buffett, Lee Kuan Yew, Jerry Yang
Notable quotes

Punditry

Cautions and corrections
In this edition: Jonathan Anderson, UBS; Lan Xue, Citi; Moody's
Pressure on prices
A summary of inflation-related news in November
Blighted by uncertainty
A summary of news concerning the Shanghai and Hong Kong stock markets in November
Global giant gets chastised
A summary of news related to Yahoo in China in November
CULTURE

Travels to the West

Over the river
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 Badong town in the west of Hubei province

Book Review

Softly, softly
China's growing 'soft power'; Hong Kong policy examined

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