Retail Struggles and Survival

When Hongkong, Asia´s retail capital, caught the deadly financial bug in 1997, it left behind an economy badly-beaten, beleaguered, weak, and desperate. These days, business confidence at the Hongkong Special Administrative Region (SAR) remains at all-time low. The...

Ms. Asia’s Waterloo

Throughout Southeast Asia, reaction is setting in to the policies of globalization and liberalization promoted by multilateral agencies such as the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In Indonesia, small merchants are pushing the...

Global Pricetags

Distinguishing between local and international companies used to be simple and uncomplicated. International companies had branches in different countries, or were involved in import and export operations. Local companies produced their goods locally and sold these...