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?
Novell
Triple whammy?
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
Toyota