The Asian Insider: Unconventional Wisdom for Asian Business

Front Matter....Pages i-x
The Asian Insider: An Introduction....Pages 1-4
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Asian Family Connections....Pages 7-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-16
Is Democracy Always Good?....Pages 17-24
Paying Peanuts: Politicians’ Pay in Asia....Pages 25-29
Police Corruption and the Rule of Law in Thailand....Pages 30-34
Executions and Extrajudicial Killings....Pages 35-41
Government Statistics and Other Lies....Pages 42-49
Thaksin Berlusconi and Silvio Shinawatra....Pages 50-57
The End of Indonesia....Pages 58-68
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
Why Singapore is Different: The Babas of Singapore....Pages 71-76
Reinventing Singapore?....Pages 77-90
Singapore Inc. or Singapore Sink?....Pages 91-100
Singapore’s Thriving Sex Industry....Pages 101-110
Diversity and Decency in Malaysia....Pages 111-121
Rumours and Gossip in Malaysia....Pages 122-126
Meet Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary....Pages 127-136
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
Allahu Akbar! Islam in Asia....Pages 139-148
Where Do Asia’s Muslims Fit In?....Pages 149-153
Southeast Asia’s Arabs....Pages 154-158
Pax Islamica: Malaysia and The Middle East....Pages 159-163
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
Land of the Setting Sun: The Inevitable Death of Japan....Pages 167-172
Law, Order and China....Pages 173-182
Is Booming China a Threat to Asia?....Pages 183-196
Shanghai: China’s Financial Capital....Pages 197-200
And then there is Beijing....Pages 201-206
The Dalai Lama Eats Meat....Pages 207-216
The Indian Way....Pages 217-225
The World’s Biggest Democracy....Pages 226-232
Mumbai: India’s Financial Capital....Pages 233-237
India’s Great Software Revolution....Pages 238-244
India: Back Office to the World....Pages 245-251
Stunning Korea....Pages 252-263
The Insider....Pages 264-267
Back Matter....Pages 268-294