Full Contents - December 2007


COVER STORY [Premium content]

Corporate bonds

CER Events

Manufacturing industry workshop

  • In the zone

  • Services and specialization are the buzzwords for China’s first-tier industrial parks

SPECIAL REPORT [Premium content]

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

PERSPECTIVE [Premium content]

  • 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

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

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?

REPORTS [Premium content]

Boutique hotels

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

COMMENTARY

REVIEW

China Buzz

Fat Dragon

Politics & Society

Punditry

QUESTION & ANSWER [Premium content]

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

CULTURE

Book Review

Joshua Kurlantzick: Charm Offensive; Tony Latter: Hands On or Hands Off: The Nature and Process of Economic Policy in Hong Kong, Hong Kong Money: The History, Logic and Operation of the Currency Peg

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

MARKETS

Investment

CITIC-Bear Stearns

Red Dragon Fund

FOCUS

Guest Word

Dave Carini

  • Stumbling blocks

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

Report

Environment

Marketing

  • Brand awareness

  • Competition is fierce as advertisers vie for maximum exposure at next year’s games

The Special Olympics

Q&A

Aaron Shin

  • The tech challenge

  • Microsoft’s enterprise services manager on providing the tech systems that will run the Olympics
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