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document.writeln('<b><a href=\'http://www.asiamarketresearch.com/news/000317.htm\'>Asian consumer growth index bullish for Thailand, China and India:</a></b>');
document.writeln('Asia Market Research dot com\'s August update to the Asian Consumer Growth Prospects Index is marked by the first tentative upturn for the long suffering Japanese consumer market, more confidence in the Chinese consumer market with the containment of SARS, and a quite substantive uptick for India (and to a lesser extent Pakistan), where decreased tensions with each other has reduced country risk significantly.  [ Aug 14 ] &nbsp;');

document.writeln('<b><a href=\'http://www.asiamarketresearch.com/news/000316.htm\'>RFP trends from market research company show softening of China upward trend for Q1-2 2003:</a></b>');
document.writeln('According to one Asian based consumer market and brand research company, the proportion of Requests for Proposals for market research so far this year reduced for China and East Asia, and increased for Thailand.  [ Aug 14 ] &nbsp;');

document.writeln('<b><a href=\'http://www.asiamarketresearch.com/news/000309.htm\'>The Asian Women\'s Shopping Experience: New research from Thailand:</a></b>');
document.writeln('Similar to the yuppies of the 80\'s,  Asian women are earning and spending, but this newly found wealth is part of a newly found freedom as well as an economic evolution.  According to a recent study in Thailand a key female demographic go on brand shopping sprees four times a month.  [ Jun 20 ] &nbsp;');

document.writeln('<b><a href=\'http://www.asiamarketresearch.com/news/000305.htm\'>SARS, Thailand, tourism and business travel: How fast for recovery?:</a></b>');
document.writeln('Latest data on recent tourist arrivals to Thailand reveals major plunges in the usually leading incoming tourist countries of Japan and China but less or nil affect on travel from Europe and Australia.  Nobody really knows when the travel and tourism industry and business travel in Thailand and South East Asia will rebound now that all ASEAN countries apart from Singapore are seen as \'SARS free\'. Best guesses are that it will be a gradual and steady recovery. Managing perceptions is key.  [ Apr 30 ] &nbsp;');

document.writeln('<b><a href=\'http://www.asiamarketresearch.com/news/000302.htm\'>Chinese market research agency SARS procedures:</a></b>');
document.writeln('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 ] &nbsp;');

document.writeln('<b><a href=\'http://www.asiamarketresearch.com/news/000299.htm\'>Consumer growth prospects fall in the wake of SARS:</a></b>');
document.writeln('April\'s Asian Consumer Growth Index, AMR\'s index of consumer growth prospects for the next 12 months, shows almost all of the 12 economies surveyed on the decline, in particular Hong Kong, Singapore and China.  [ Apr 14 ] &nbsp;');