Day: August 8, 2013

With ageing populations and the health effects of rapid urbanisation, the Asian century faces huge challenges in health reform, writes Tan Chorh Chuan.

China’s obsession with imported infant milk formula is having ramifications for parents in Australia, writes Karen Tye from Melbourne.

Australia China Business Council Chairman, Frank Tudor, discusses the challenges for modern day China in the context of geopolitics.

The dramatic ousting of Julia Gillard as Labor party leader and thus prime minister by Kevin Rudd, the man she had herself ousted three years earlier, naturally raises questions about whether or to what extent the election at which he will now lead the party, may affect Australia’s vital relations with China, writes Rowan Callick.

Chengdu and the West China region is the new hot spot for doing business in China, writes Sophie Loras.

Chengdu and the West China region is the new hot spot for doing business in China, writes Sophie Loras.

Australian journalist Brett Bayly recounts his first trip to China as a correspondent during Australia’s first prime ministerial visit to the country in 1973.

Australian journalist Brett Bayly recounts his first trip to China as a correspondent during Australia’s first prime ministerial visit to the country in 1973.

Business as usual in China includes the occasional historic moment or two, writes AustCham Shanghai Chairman Peter Arkell.