1. China's foreign investment
(Panorama/Investment)

... longer-term, the participation of Chinese SOEs might push them to become more commercially-oriented, and encourage the state to ultimately privatize them. In any event, Western countries like Australia, ...

2. Asian Migration
(Panorama/Migration)

... male- and family-dominated societies to enjoy Western economic and social freedoms that are not available at home. In the US there are concerns that policies have been too stringent regarding permanent ...

3. Globalization, the word
(Panorama/Globalization)

... concern for suitability – customers will prefer its world-standardized products.” “So-called ethnic markets are a good example.  Chinese food, pita bread, country and western music, pizza and jazz are ...

4. Globalization, development and culture
(Panorama/Globalization)

... against the rest of the country. Then, it was thought that they perhaps Christian culture was the factor behind the superior economic performance of Western countries.  But then how could that explain ...

5. Japan in the Asian Century
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... States and Australia. Further, Japan has very high life expectancy and very low infant and child mortality. This places Japan at the same level of development as Western nations. Japan achieved all this ...

6. China's reform in a bind
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... with Western embassies, notably by the US, playing a leading role.  Chinese youth are only too vividly aware of the sharp differences between Western and Chinese political culture. In conclusion, China ...

7. Burmese Days
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... US and most other Western countries imposed sanctions.  Most neighboring Asian countries pursued a policy of engagement, especially China which developed very close economic and political ties.  Burma ...

8. Culture Wise China
(Panorama/Culture)

... known them for a long time and we know what is underneath the skin".   You may be surprised to learn that although Westerners are turning more and more to Chinese medicine, young Chinese prefer the faster ...

9. Microfinance today
(Panorama/Finance)

... services, and there is a rapidly growing middle class. This middle class is not the same as the middle class of the United States and western nations. Being middle class in Asia can mean simply living ...

10. Understanding the Rise of China -- Martin Jacques
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

"We can't understand the rise of China using Western concepts" argues Martin Jacques, the author of "When China Rules the World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World". Here ...

11. Japan's governance problems
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... http://naiic.go.jp/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/NAIIC_report_lo_res.pdf  Post-script: This report has provoked a wave of reactions by Western commentators on the NBR Japan Forum. Columbia University's ...

12. China's reform in a bind
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... with Western embassies, notably by the US, playing a leading role.  Chinese youth are only too vividly aware of the sharp differences between Western and Chinese political culture. In conclusion, China ...

13. Tyranny in China and Russia
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... no one’s property is safe; a petro-state that leaves millions so poor they remember Soviet times with nostalgia; a state ruled by a former secret police agent whose only contact with a liberal Western ...

14. Burmese Days
(Panorama/Development)

...  The US and most other Western countries imposed sanctions.  Most neighboring Asian countries pursued a policy of engagement, especially China which developed very close economic and political ties.  ...

15. Trying to do business in China
(Panorama/Investment)

... with examples of ... ...tortuously long negotiations that are never concluded, successful Western companies which fail and retreat from China, and complex deals where it is necessary to grease the ...

16. Burma: some Nobel thoughts
(Panorama/Society)

... to sway Burma out of the China camp and into its own.  Other Western countries are also lining up.  And both the ASEAN countries and India are also after Burma's resources. There is much to worry about.  ...

17. Views of Asia's next generation
(Panorama/Society)

...  (i) Education While Westerners are in awe of Asia's education test scores, Asia's "tiger cubs" see all-too-closely the many problems of Asia's schooling.  Most Asian schools are focused on stuffing ...

18. China: is “state capitalism” in crisis?
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... fruits at home, but it is also gaining ground abroad, with the risk of becoming an example for other developing nations - therefore greatly harming the attractiveness of the Western capitalism model. From ...

19. India's urban squalor
(Panorama/Society)

... grass at the sewage lake's edge ...  They gave those slumdwellers who didn't fry rats and eat weeds, like Abdul, a sense of their upward mobility." "Here, in the thriving western suburbs of the Indian ...

20. China's urbanization
(Panorama/Change and innovation)

... But contrary to popular impressions of a massive wave of migrants to coastal cities from poor central and western provinces, less than a third of migrants to China's cities come from other provinces.  ...