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Articles in April, 2004 issue of Business Asia

• Shangri-La in the Maldives
• Food for thought across Asia
• The Thais that bind: while there is much talk of the Australia-US FTA at the moment, Tim Harcourt casts his eyes eastwards to take a look at a FTA somewhat closer to home which is already bringing great rewards
  by Tim Harcourt
• Avon calling, in Chinese
• Indonesia to oil the wheels of investors
• Wipro loses Capital One over quality concerns
• Vietnam gets in top gear
• Macquarie Bank ramps up Korean investment
• South Korean exports rise 50 per cent
• Taiwan's GDP to rise 6 per cent—report
• EFIC taking the risk out of politics
• FreightLink opens bridge to Asia
• China to power on with nuclear
• Access almost all areas: in one of the swiftest negotiations of its kind ever witnessed, the Australia-US Free Trade Agreement is being touted as one of the most significant deals ever. Tony Bosworth asks if that really is true …
  by Tony Bosworth
• One community for the future: Ambassador Mario Artaza, Executive Director of the APEC Secretariat, recently spoke at a business breakfast hosted by The New Zealand Asia Institute at the University of Auckland on the role of APEC. We take a look at what he says is in store for the region this year
• Reaching for the sky
• On the rise, or on the nose? Like most other economies, Japan's has had its ups and its downs. But this is no ordinary economy, this is the country that back in the 1980s was number two in the world and tipped to overtake the US within a decade, Tony Bosworth looks at what went wrong and examines what could happen if Japan's sun start to rise once more
  by Tony Bosworth
• Bharti outsources IT to IBM in billion dollar deal
• China's foreign trade soars, IT up, restaurants boom