Vol. 12 No. 1, April 2004
Index
- The Thais that bind: while there is much talk of the Australia-US FTA at the moment, Tim Harcourt casts his eyes eastwards to take a look at a FTA somewhat closer to home which is already bringing great rewards.
- Food for thought across Asia.
- Shangri-La in the Maldives.
- Taiwan's GDP to rise 6 per cent--report.
- EFIC taking the risk out of politics.
- FreightLink opens bridge to Asia.
- Bharti outsources IT to IBM in billion dollar deal.
- China to power on with nuclear.
- Macquarie Bank ramps up Korean investment.
- South Korean exports rise 50 per cent.
- Vietnam gets in top gear.
- Wipro loses Capital One over quality concerns.
- Avon calling, in Chinese.
- China's foreign trade soars, IT up, restaurants boom.
- Indonesia to oil the wheels of investors.
- On the rise, or on the nose? Like most other economies, Japan's has had its ups and its downs. But this is no ordinary economy, this is the country that back in the 1980s was number two in the world and tipped to overtake the US within a decade, Tony Bosworth looks at what went wrong and examines what could happen if Japan's sun start to rise once more.
- Reaching for the sky.
- One community for the future: Ambassador Mario Artaza, Executive Director of the APEC Secretariat, recently spoke at a business breakfast hosted by The New Zealand Asia Institute at the University of Auckland on the role of APEC. We take a look at what he says is in store for the region this year.
- Access almost all areas: in one of the swiftest negotiations of its kind ever witnessed, the Australia-US Free Trade Agreement is being touted as one of the most significant deals ever. Tony Bosworth asks if that really is true ...