Business

And never the twain shall meet . . .

Building business relationships in Asia, and then keeping them, is proving far harder than foreign companies imagined

Suez and Lyonnaise des Eaux

On April fool’s day . . .

Outsourcing in the Caribbean

Cloud over Silicon Beach

Small firms in Japan

Fabulous and fabless

A new breed of tough young manufacturers, hardened by recession, is emerging in Japan

On-line retailing

Web browsing

Indonesia’s Uncle Bob

In a country where connections count, Mohamad Hasan’s are the best. But is he a businessman or a courtier?

Krupp and Thyssen

Exaggerated rumours of a death

For around 24 hours Anglo-Saxon shareholder capitalism reared its ugly head in Germany. Then reason prevailed