August 2022
Why Australia’s top super funds are Jakarta-bound
With $140 billion flowing in each year, super giants are increasingly looking offshore for investments and Indonesia’s fired-up economy is on the radar.
- Emma Connors
September 2019
ASEAN countries emerge as our second-largest trading bloc
Business needs to look beyond the Middle Kingdom and increase its export efforts in the 700-million-strong southeast Asian region.
- Michael Sainsbury
April 2017
The birds nest business: from Sumatra to Shenzen, via Melbourne
China's taste for birds nests is being given an Australian flavour, courtesy of our value-adding quarantine.
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- Nick Lenaghan
September 2016
Emerging markets a diverse and complex group of countries
Austrade chief economist Mark Thirlwell says Australia's largest trade partnership is with an emerging market, China.
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- Mark Abernethy
Australia China Business Council says integration of economies entering intense phase
It's something of a misnomer in Australia's trade relations but China is still classified as an emerging market.
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- Mark Abernethy
Asian trillion-dollar infrastructure spend transforming region
The amount of money invested into Asian infrastructure between 2015 and 2025 is expected to be about US$5.3 trillion.
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- Mark Abernethy
Iran's increasing trade appeal but banks wary
Iran – The Islamic Republic – is an oft-touted trade opportunity for Australia, in large part due to having a population of just under 80 million and a big economy.
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- Mark Abernethy
June 2016
Professional service firms told to shift mindset on Asian expansion
Australian legal and management consulting firms are well-positioned to tap into growing opportunities in Asian markets.
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- Lucille Keen
March 2016
China's offshore shopping spree and the quest for cash flow
Anbang, the insurer on a $32bn overseas shopping spree, is one of many companies embracing Beijing's 'go out' directive. But their big cash offers come with transparency worries.
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- James Kynge, Gabriel Wildau and Don Weinland,
November 2015
How youth dialogues are creating a pan-Asia cohort of young leaders
Emerging leaders across Asia are meeting their Australian counterparts. Three explain how they got involved.
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- Nicholas Carney, Fiona Lawrie and Heather Reed
October 2015
Universities capitalising on surge in students
Education remains a key component of the economy, with foreign students contributing about $18 billion a year, of which between $4 billion and $5 billion is paid directly to universities in fees.
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- Joshua Gliddon
Commercial investors flocking to Australia
The flood of capital across borders looking for commercial property shows no sign of abating, with $US407 billion ($561.4 billion) of deals struck worldwide during the first half of 2015, up 14 per cent, property agency CBRE says.
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- James Dunn
Productivity Commission says transparency needed on trade deals
Before the end of the year, the Productivity Commission is due to report on how investment barriers may be stifling growth in Australian services exports.
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- Olga Galacho
Foreign investors needed to expand agribusiness
In Matt Damon's film The Martian, an astronaut abandoned on the red planet uses science to stave off starvation.Agricultural and livestock producers on Earth likewise will need to tap smarter technology to keep up with feeding an Asian population whose tastes are becoming increasingly refined.
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- Olga Galacho
Grabbing a larger share of regional trade
While capital from Asia attracts the headlines, it is still the case that half of our capital inflows come from the US, while Europe accounts for 23 per cent.
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- James Dunn
September 2015
Trade deals can enliven business
Businesses need to adapt to what is amounting to a virtual intra-Asian trading environment on the back of recent trade negotiations.
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- Jason Clout
Small businesses grabbing slice of overseas markets
The value of small and medium sized enterprises to the exporting effort can be dramatic, with the latest statistics showing that 70 per cent of growth in Australian exporters in the 2014 financial year, was attributable to SMEs.
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- Mark Abernethy
Streamlined export clearance 'worth billions'
Accredited businesses will eventually reap big efficiency gains from streamlined customs and security clearance in countries that have a mutual recognition agreement with Australia.
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- Steve Jones
Wine industry on the rise again
The Australian wine industry has marked a significant milestone. The value of its exports in the financial year to June 2015 rose 5 per cent to $1.89 billion while volume of exports rose 4 per cent to 724 million litres – the first rise in export value since 2006-07, and the first time wine export volumes have risen since 2010-11.
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- Mark Abernethy
Chinese tourists lured by shops more than beaches
Almost every major travel destination in the world is targeting middle-class Chinese travellers and the white-hot competition for China's tourist dollar is set to intensify over the next five years.
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- Chris Tolhurst