Virgin Mobile: full of Eastern promise

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Kuhne & Nagel/SembLog: the first step of many?

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APL: China is the new logistics target

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Lufthansa/SAS/Singapore: cargo alliance set to take off

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mCRM: technologically advanced Japan leads the way in B2C applications

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Asia-Pacific wealth: 6.4% of Japanese will be 'wealthy' by 2004

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Asian hedge funds: false hope

Fund managers in Hong Kong and Singapore are already developing new hedge fund products, as governments plan to liberalize regulations. However, there's little fit between hedge funds and their new target, retail investors. There may soon be a lot of disappointed asset managers across Asia - and a waste of valuable marketing resources.

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Asian millionaires: a tough bunch

The number of Asian millionaires is still increasing, despite global market volatility. Asia's economies have seen strong economic growth, while income inequality has not diminished. The combination of evolving investor preferences, increasingly rich investors, and limited competition makes Asia increasingly seem the wealth management market to be in.

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Microsoft: Xbox takes on pirates in the South China Sea

With software piracy endemic in southeast Asia, Microsoft's launch of its heavily subsidized Xbox console is a bold move. Although software sales and online gaming in Singapore and Taiwan should bring some returns, the real story is that Microsoft is paying heavily now, to gain a foothold in a market that will be lucrative in several years' time.

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IDT: crossing the line

IDT is hoping that by raising security concerns it will stand a better chance of acquiring Global Crossing. Hutchison Telecommunications and Singapore Technologies Telemedia are currently in line to get the assets, but IDT CEO James Courter's experience as a congressman might help him to find the right political strings to pull.

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