Finally, GEM Adds Luster

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Undeterred by warnings, a small number of companies think now is the time to offer their initial public offerings.

INSTRUMENTS AND RELATED PRODUCTS, Instruments & Related Products, Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing, Column, Stock-exchange, Stock exchanges, Instruments (Equipment), Growth Enterprise Market, STAREASTnet.com, ColbyNet, Proactive Technology Holdings Ltd., Smartech Digital Manufacturers Holdings Ltd.

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Convenience retail Asia's IPO may disappoint its parent

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Analysts and investors remain skeptical of Convenience Retail Asia's (CRA) initial public offering despite the company's plan to operate 170 conveinence stores within Hong Kong as well as plans to open 100 stores in China by the end of 2003. Li and Fung, CRA's parent company, may be disappointed with the initial public offering's outcome as investors question Hong Kong's need for so many convenience stores as well as whether CRA will succeed in a Chinese market where competitors are firmly established.

Convenience Stores, Services introduction, Grocery stores, Wholesale Trade, Parent-to-subsidiary activities, Wholesale industry, Convenience Retail Asia, Li and Fung Ltd.

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Hong Kong shifts position on bilateral free-trade pacts: Financial secretary to lead talks with China in bid to stem city's economic downturn

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Hong Kong's economic problems have spurred Financial Secretary Antony Leung to open free-trade talks with China. China's accession to the WTO is one of the reasons Hong Kong's government wants to lower tariffs between the two countries.

Administration of General Economic Programs, International economic relations, Bilateral Trade Negotiations, Political activity, International relations, Chinese foreign relations, World Trade Organization, Trade negotiations, Hong Kong foreign relations, Leung, Antony

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