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Articles in April, 2004 issue of Business Asia

• Wipro loses Capital One over quality concerns
• Vietnam gets in top gear
• EFIC taking the risk out of politics
• Reaching for the sky
• 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
• Taiwan's GDP to rise 6 per cent—report
• 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 Bosw
  by Tony Bosworth
• FreightLink opens bridge to Asia
• 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
• Bharti outsources IT to IBM in billion dollar deal
• Shangri-La in the Maldives
• Indonesia to oil the wheels of investors
• Macquarie Bank ramps up Korean investment
• China's foreign trade soars, IT up, restaurants boom
• 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
• South Korean exports rise 50 per cent
• Food for thought across Asia
• Avon calling, in Chinese