Managers' Forum ~ Website Reviews
Asia Business Portal
Review by: Hongcheol Park
Asia Business Portal is a
great web site to have the latest information and
news about Asian Business. The title of Asia Business Portal is "Timely
and
free Asian Business Intelligence in one click". This page is geared
for fast
retrieval of timely and substantive material for serious business and
marketing
research and news. Each link shows a new window to a substantive resource,
verified
daily. Each link updates information hourly to at the most weekly,
apart from
the APMF (Asia Pacific Management Forum) Country Summaries, Archive
section,
or the News pages, which offers daily updated information. There are
fifteen
news sections including Asia Pacific Management Forum. For examples,
there are
Today's Asia Newswires, Asia Today, Today's Asian Markets Newswires,
Today's
Asian Marketing & Management News, Asia Branding News, Latest Economist
Intelligence
Unit Briefings, and Journals of the week.
Also, there is great search
tool, which is Anbar Management Intelligence database.
This database supplies over 100,000 articles from over 500 leading
business
management journals by selecting a keyword search. It will show article
and
journal titles, dates and authors. We can also search the Asia Pacific
Management
Forum. 1,000 pages re-indexed weekly on Monday. These search tools
can provide
great deal of information to anybody who is interested in doing business
in
Asia.
The section of Current Focus
and Past Focus offer links to forecasts and reviews
of Asian Business in the new Millennium. Current Focus includes:
1. Asia Report: Malaysain Momentum play, Fund Shifts Focus to High
Tech, Hard
Charger from Hong Kong, Charts Say Dow's Looking Good, and Cyber Gateway
to
China
2. Asia Finance News: Significant internet portal/ ISP exposure, Pacific
Century
Cyber Works eyes investment in CWHKT, Correlated with the digital economy,
Small
cap, and CITIC Pacific to raise fund for strategic investment
3. Fast Company: This is a Marketing Revolution, 8 Principles for Learning,
Broadcast.com Boots Its Signal, Cruise (out of) Control, and Different
Market/New
Message.
4. Strategies: Scudder Funds Shuttered, Some Advise About Investment
Advise,
Energizing Your Portfolio, Telecom Circus Moves to Asia, and Some Respite
Possible
for Dow.
5. Investment News And Reports: M&A weekly Wrap, Mutual Funds Weekly
Scorecard,
Two Stocks for the Long Haul
Asia Business Portal arranges information
very well and their categories
of information are very easy to approach.
http://www.apmforum.com/asiaportal.htm
