Asia & Pacific

Magazine articles on conducting business in Asia and Pacific countries.

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The Motley Fool September 29, 2004 Bill Mann	How Do You Repossess a Whole Country? Years of mismanagement of Nauru's trust assets has reduced the island nation to the point of poverty, with little hope of recovery. The final cut comes courtesy of corporate giant GE.
The Motley Fool September 28, 2004 Tom Taulli	Rising Sun for Ingram Micro Yesterday, the company increased its Asian-Pacific market share with the purchase of Tech Pacific.
Bank Systems & Technology September 27, 2004 Ivan Schneider	UFJ's Purchaser to Gain Scale in IT Outsourcing Two of Japan's largest banks, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi ($970 billion in assets) and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group ($860 billion in assets), are vying for control of UFJ ($751 billion in assets).
Bank Systems & Technology September 27, 2004 Ivan Schneider	JCB Pilots Payments via Mobile Phone Though it's common in the U.S. for consumers to pull out plastic for virtually all of their purchases, that practice is still a long way off in Japan. For a credit card company such as JCB (Tokyo), the challenge is to encourage card usage in a cash-based society.
BusinessWeek October 4, 2004 Bremner et al.	Nissan's Boss Carlos Ghosn saved Japan's No. 2 carmaker. Now he's taking on the world.
BusinessWeek October 4, 2004 Wheatley et al.	Give Us Your Soy, Your Iron, Your Grain... As China gobbles up commodities from Latin America, it's forging strong financial and diplomatic ties, too.
BusinessWeek October 4, 2004	The Way Of Carlos Ghosn Soon after Ghosn took over Nissan, he was receiving hate mail. Now he's revered in Japan, and considered a national hero. Here's how he got there.
BusinessWeek October 4, 2004 Manjeet Kripalani	Mobile Telecoms Find Nirvana India has become a red-hot market for cell-phone operators.
BusinessWeek October 4, 2004 Assif Shameen	Indonesia: A Second Shot At Reform? The Indonesian Finance Minister may get to flex his muscles under a new President.
InternetNews September 27, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	Ingram Micro Expands Asia Pacific Presence The company acquires Australian tech distributor for $493M. The companies recognize that Tech Pacifica is stronger in software while Ingram Micro is noted for its large components mix.
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