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Chinese market research agency SARS procedures: Market research is an essentially social activity when it requires primary data collection among consumers. While much publicity on the effects of SARS in China has been focused on the airline, health-care, tourism, and restaurant industries, secondary effects are wide ranging. [Apr 25 2003]

Asia Pacific IT professionals to outnumber other regions by 2006: It was only a matter of time before the center of the IT and computer programming world moved towards Asia. A new IDC report estimates that the Asia Pacific will house more computer programmers than any other region including North America and Europe by 2006. [Feb 25 2003]

Cautions on China: The worst assumption to make is that China is already a free market-driven economy with all the associated assumptions of free demand and supply. China as a whole remains very much a developing nation with all the associated risks. [Feb 15 2003]

WPP Expands into Chinese Advertising Market: WPP, the world's leading advertising, market research and branding communications group announced today that it had acquired 25% of the well established Shanghai Advertising - one of China's pioneer advertising groups. [Nov 5 2002]

China October Retail Sales Up: While consumers in the rest of the world remain listless, there seems to be no stop to consumer growth in China. During the Asian financial crisis, China was the only Asian nation to display strong growth, and now during a time when analysts are talking of a "double dip" recession in the US and murmuring under their breath of 1929 and 1987, China continues to play the role of the recalcitrant. [Sep 29 2002]

China to become the factory of the world: China will become the "factory of the world", according to international economics guru, Professor of Economics at Columbia University New York and Nobel Lareate Robert Mundell. [Sep 29 2002]

Toyota enters China auto market as a laggard: Japan's Toyota entered the Chinese auto industry late, but in the end the potential of the domestic market, softening of Chinese policies towards foreign companies and low cost manufacturing advantages made the decision inevitable. [Aug 31 2002]

Chinese home ownership soars - an increasingly sophisticated market segment: Chinese home ownership is soaring, and with it the emergence of a market for related products and services that is growing fast in sophistication. [Aug 13 2002]

China a new pillar of the world economy - McKinsey: Well, the speaker after all was the head of McKinsey's China biz, but Pan Wangpo's recent comment that China is 'a new pillar of the world economy' makes practical sense and reminds us that International Business will never be the same. [May 25 2002]

China sees mad cows in leading foreign cosmetic brands: Despite stringent testing in Europe, China seems to be banning several cosmetic products from leading European brand manufacturers as they may contain ingredients that cause Mad Cow disease. [Apr 29 2002]

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