Stock＇s Rising

Chinese stocks are popular on overseas boards. At home however markets are stagnant.     

Pretty Profitable

A beauty contest craze and a wealthier society are both nourishing China's cosmetics market. The worlds leading brands are competing with-and buying-local cosmetics firms for a share of China's vanity cash.     

Nicotine Thrill

China is counting the cost of its craving for cigarettes. Cigarette makers, meanwhile, are trying to get more Chinese women to light up.     

Micro Credit,Macro Gain

PlaNet Finance's small loans are easing poverty and giving a chance to China's budding entrepreneurs.     

China＇s Modernists In Manhattan

Canvasses by China‘s young artists are becoming hot commodities worldwide.     

Good Sports

China's Olympics medallists are worth their weight in marketing gold.     

Lad Mags Lure Chinese Males：Glossy magazines seek to score with Chinese men

IT is almost impossible to find a bottle of men's deodorant in most Chinese cities. Chinese men are not renowned as Metrosexuals.But several publishinghouses are banking on their ability to turn local men into shopping and sex sophisticates. Publishers of men's magazines have identified Asia as the biggest market of the future, banking on the change in lifestyle and habits of local men. Up to 1995, post office sub-     

Ahead of Schedule and Below Budget

CHINESE construction companies sated with the huge projects which have redefince china's urban landscape are increasingly     

Whiskey a Go Go——Whiskey sales are up in China, as distillers court a young market.

THE packagers of good whisky take pride in its age. Any really good scotch will havebeen a ged for aminimum of ten years. China‘s growing prosperity has taught many locals to distinguish between a good and middling bottle of whiskey. French-based Pernod Ricard, the number one foreign wine and spirit producer in China, is counting onsales in urban China, where whiskey drinking is catching on fast, to boost company turnover.     

Dressed Up

WTO textiles quotas are down and Chinese exports are way up, but quality issues and Asian competition could spoil China's party.