(1) Companies will come together because of the sheer costs involved in globalising their businesses.

(2) If parts of the cost of the tax are paid out of the bonus pool, we would seek to globalise it.

(3) This would be in tandem with Singapore's efforts to globalise.

(4) But Hogg counters: "Our aim is to modernise and globalise traditional Chinese medicine."

(5) Like Japan, South Korea, and others before, China has deployed a hybrid mix of state and market-led forces to globalise its economy over the past 30 years.

(6) Nevertheless, the yuan's globalisation is irreversible. The only question is how fast it will globalise. Hong Kong is no doubt the best halfway house.