Asia & Pacific

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BusinessWeek July 25, 2005 Assif Shameen	Malaysia's Proton Hits Heavy Traffic Proton Holdings, the government-controlled company that has long had a hammerlock on the Malaysian car market, is at a crossroads: As tariffs fall, rivals are piling in, threatening the carmaker's future.
BusinessWeek July 25, 2005 Dawson & Shameen	Pickups: Thais Keep On Truckin' With global auto makers in China focused mainly on making passenger cars for the masses, Thailand may be content to serve as the leading pickup production base outside the U.S.
BusinessWeek July 25, 2005 Cooper & Madigan	South Korea: Seoul's Not Opening The Spigot South Korea appears on its way to a third consecutive year of disappointing economic growth. The only hope to jump-start the economy may well be an aggressive package of fiscal stimuli, but the government seems cool on that option.
BusinessWeek July 25, 2005 Assif Shameen	The Shareholder Revving State Companies Azman, head of the Malaysian state investment firm Khazanah Holdings, has injected an entrepreneurial style into many state-owned businesses. His latest project is carmaker Proton.
BusinessWeek July 25, 2005	Steering Japan's DoCoMo Out Of The Doldrums DoCoMo has long been one of the most innovative players in the global cellular business, but has recently had trouble finding growth. CEO Nakamura stresses video phones and data services to reverse the slide.
The Motley Fool July 15, 2005 Tom Taulli	China vs. Congress: What's Next? Bulging with dollars, China needs to do something with the money. Why not buy U.S. companies? The deal that is getting much of the attention is CNOOC's pursuit of Unocal, which is the ninth-largest U.S. oil company. Congress is very concerned.
InternetNews July 13, 2005 Roy Mark	USTR Calls China Talks 'Measured' Beijing promises to crack down on piracy and delay government software procurement rules. US officials and business people remain skeptical.
The Motley Fool July 13, 2005 Tom Taulli	Is "Baidu" Chinese for "Google"? Baidu, China's search-engine upstart, prepares for an IPO. Baidu's business model allows advertisers to bid on keyword-search results. It's working quite well.
The Motley Fool July 12, 2005 Richard Gibbons	Another Way to Play China A low-risk way for investors to get exposure to China: Electronic commerce provider First Data announced several bank and credit-card processing deals in China.
Wired July 2005 Kevin Maney	The New Face of IBM China's biggest IT brand wants to go global. So it bought the PC division -- and the world-class management -- of an American icon. Who says being "oceans apart" is a bad thing?
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