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Economy / Hong Kong
The Hong Kong government recently announced that private hospitals would not be allowed to accept bookings from mainland mothers hoping to give birth in the city beginning next year. The move comes in a bid to stem the huge influx of women from the mainland seeking a quick route towards attaining education and residency rights through giving birth in the city. The government has...
2012-05-03Economy / Taiwan
Despite an agreement to retrofit its current fleet of fighter jets, the sale of new F-16 fighter jets to Taiwan is back on the agenda again. The potential sale has resurfaced at a time...
2012-05-02Economy / South Korea
Increasing fractures are surfacing within the ruling Saenuri Party, with rumours of an internal power struggle growing following the party's legislative election victory in April and...
2012-05-02Economy / India
In line with our call, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) kicked off its monetary easing cycle in April, albeit by a larger-than-expected 50 basis points (bps), taking the benchmark repo rate down to 8.00%. With core inflation still on the retreat, money supply growth at cyclical lows, and the Q112 bounce in economic activity starting to fade, there was sufficient room and motivation...
2012-05-04Economy / India
New Delhi's proposed introduction of retrospective taxation of cross border flows and a General Anti-Avoidance Rule (GAAR) on investment from traditional tax havens is another blow...
2012-05-04Economy / Bangladesh
Consumer price inflation (CPI) edged lower in March, coming in at 10.1% y-o-y, down from 10.4% in the previous month. Food inflation hit a 28-month low 8.3% y-o-y (down from 8.9%),...
2012-05-03Economy / Myanmar
Suu Kyi and her fellow National League For Democracy (NLD) members that were elected to parliament in recent by-elections agreed to be sworn in on May 2, ending a stand-off over the wording of the oath of office which the NLD eventually conceded. The accession of the NLD to parliament marks considerable progress from 1990, when the party won general elections in a landslide but...
2012-05-04Economy / Cambodia
Cambodia's international reserves ticked up again in December to a four-month high of US$3.45bn, and are now back near the all-time high recorded in August. Our forecast is for reserves...
2012-03-05Economy / Cambodia
Vietnamese investment in Cambodia is booming, particularly in the mining and rubber sectors, and we expect to see greater bilateral trade and investment linkages over the coming years....
2012-03-05Economy / Singapore
Anecdotal reports indicate that rejections of employment related visas are on the rise, and criteria have been tightened considerably over the past two years. Moving forward, the trend looks set to continue, even as multiple government related agencies publish studies on the necessity of continued immigration in order to maintain modest population growth and stave off a demographic...
2012-05-08Economy / Indonesia
The ruling Aceh Party in Indonesia would likely win the gubernatorial, mayoral and district head polls in the country owing to the party's robust structure of command from top to the...
2012-05-08Economy / Philippines
Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert Del Rosario said that the Philippines has pulled out its biggest warship out of a standoff with Chinese vessels in the disputed South China...
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