Business Asia articles from September 2000

Business Asia archives from September 2000

INDIA'S BANK TANGLE.(Reserve Bank of India)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)(Column)
September 1, 2000... JUST WHAT is the Reserve Bank of India in such a snit about? Is it really necessary to issue threats to the foreign exchange market? The threat came in a statement to the forex market this month. India's central bank warned it had...

Shanghai back in favour.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2000... THREE YEARS after the Asian economic crisis drove foreigners out of China's bedraggled share markets, they have begun creeping back in. A spate of foreign buy orders on Shanghai's stock exchange in recent sessions has set tongues wagging...

ASIA FACT FILE.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2000... Price watch This month's Asia Fact File tracks the forecast inflation rates for Asia-Pacific nations for 2000 and 20002. COUNTRY 2000E 2002E Australia 4.9 2.5% China 0.5 4.5%...

[WORD Of MOUTH].(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... "Foreign investors don't complain or criticise anything -- they just ignore us." -- KHUN BANTOON LAMSAM, HEAD OF THE THAI FARMERS BANK, LAMENTING HIS COUNTRY'S LACK OF FOREIGN INVESTMENT. "There's a lot of people who are enjoying the...

go figure.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... FOLLOWING ARE SOME SIGNIFICANT NUMBERS OR STATISTICS RELATING TO ASIA-PACIFIC NATIONS 72 The percentage of Filipinos who regularly attend church or a temple, compared with 4 per cent in Japan. 1,000,000 The number of ostriches in...

STOP PRESS.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... * WINNERS If perennial rivals Japan and South Korea do the unthinkable and agree to a free-trade agreement, the Asia-Pacific region stands to gain. A new report says Japanese and Korean cooperation would create a market worth roughly $US5...

Putting on the Ritz.(Ritz-Carleton in Singapore garners award)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... THE RITZ-CARLTON MILLENIA has notched back-to-back wins in the Best Business Hotels in Asia Awards -- underlining its emerging status as one of the finest hotels in the world. Business travellers across the region have thrown their support...

The five-star stars.(award winning hotels in various countries)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Hotels around the world don't come much better than those in Asia's five-star bracket. And the hotels that win in the Best Business Hotel in Asia Award are at the top of a very impressive crop. The service and infrastructure of Asia's leading...

B2B bonanza.(Business-to-business Internet market in Korea and Australia.)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Internet-savvy Australians and Koreans are allowing their countries to take a lead in the business-to-business internet market ASIA'S RENOWNED trade leaders Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan are likely to trail Australia and South Korea in...

FALLOUT FROM AMERICA.(U.S. may influence Asian economics in 2001.)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... A hard US landing in 2001 is likely to accelerate the commercial shakeout across the Asian region, OVER THE next three months, companies, governments and analysts across the region will become increasingly concerned about the potential...

A law unto herself.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... One of Hong Kong's most outspoken reformers is quitting politics, but she won't be silenced. SHE HAS been named one of Asia's most powerful opinion shapers -- and, in a rarity for politicians, her popularity rating has soared over the...

SA rekindles its Asian affair.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Frightened off by Asia's economic crisis three years ago, South Australian exporters are showing signs of re-engagement in the region. WHEN THE Asian financial crisis hit midway through 1997, South Australian exporters barely paused for...

THE NEW BELIEVERS.(China's Internet growth.)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... JENNY WILSON(*) reports that a war is being fought out to become the pre-eminent internet brand in China WHILE THE rest of the dotcom world is taking a virtual beating, China is the newest frontier. If ever you needed proof that the...

A TASTE OF THINGS TO COME.(Wine consumption in Korea.)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2000... KYLIE BRYANT(*) says Koreans are drinking more and more quality wines, but Australian suppliers are battling to increase market share OVER THE past five years, I have watched with interest changes in the food and beverage market in South...

UNPLUGGING THE INTERNET.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... PHIL PRYKE(*) says future wireless communications will match mobile internet capabilities to the lifestyles of consumers. And it is happening today in Asia REMEMBER WHEN making a call meant sitting down at a phone plugged into a wall...

YOUNG CHINESE MARCH TO NEW DRUM.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... CLIFF STONEMAN(*) says China's youth are throwing off the shackles of communism to pursue careers as entrepreneurs THERE IS no doubt that the big bear (China) is awakening from a long business and free-market hibernation. If the past...

Pioneering the e-commerce path.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... THIS IS the second of a regular series on managing e-business strategies. Singapore securities trading company Lim & Tan Securities has made e-business a reality, combining traditional business operations with new internet-related processes....

LEE TAKES AIM AT MAHATHIR.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... IN REMARKS sure to test the two countries' relations, Singapore Senior Minister and elder statesman Lee Kuan Yew says Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has suffered dearly from errors of judgment in dealing with his former deputy Anwar...

INDIA'S TOP 50 COMPANIES BY MARKET CAPITALISATION.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... RANK NAME INDUSTRY 1 Wipro Corp IT 2 Infosys Technologies Software 3 Hindustan Lever ...

`THE ANGER AGAINST MAHATHIR WILL GROW'.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... NELSON GRAVES says foreign investors will shrug off the Anwar Ibrahim verdict in Malaysia, but all is not well in the Mahathir camp MALAYSIA'S FORMER finance minister Anwar Ibrahim has lost his biggest legal battle, but fallout from his...