South East Asia Vol 2
The South East Asia Monitor Vol 2 service provides subscribers with systematic political risk assessment, economic forecasts and business analysis for Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore.
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Singapore / Economy
Singapore implemented a new Retirement and Re-employment Act on January 1. The Act is expected to be implemented smoothly following four years of work by the government, unions and employers. The Act will help workers who are able and willing to work beyond the retirement age. A 2011 labour force survey revealed that 61.2% of workers between the age of 55 and 64 are still working,...
2012-01-27Indonesia / Economy
The House of Representatives may debate until March a new law on elections, and one point of contention in particular will be the minimum vote percentage that a political party must...
2012-01-27Malaysia / Economy
Malaysia's headline consumer price inflation (CPI) slowed from 3.4% y-o-y in October to 3.3% in November and we expect inflationary pressures to continue to cool over the coming months....
2012-01-09Country Risk Rating
Singapore
Singapore implemented a new Retirement and Re-employment Act on January 1. The Act is expected to be implemented smoothly following four years of work by the government, unions and...
2012-01-27Indonesia
The House of Representatives may debate until March a new law on elections, and one point of contention in particular will be the minimum vote percentage that a political party must...
2012-01-27Malaysia
The opposition Democratic Action Party (DAP) has proposed new measures aimed at addressing corruption. Some of the key measures include a ban on political parties' involvement in businesses...
2012-01-09Indonesia
Indonesia's leadership in its push for Myanmar's chairmanship indicates how far it has come since widespread riots in 1998 led to the fall of its authoritarian 'New Order' government...
2011-11-28Malaysia
Malaysia's headline consumer price inflation (CPI) slowed from 3.4% y-o-y in October to 3.3% in November and we expect inflationary pressures to continue to cool over the coming months....
2012-01-09Philippines
Inflation in the Philippine economy took a small step back in July, printing at 5.1% year-on-year, compared with 5.2% a month earlier. Inflation in the archipelago has been stubborn...
2011-09-05Singapore
Singapore's real GDP growth came in at an annualised -6.5% quarter-on-quarter (seasonally adjusted) in Q211, a steep contrast to the 27.2% expansion recorded in the preceding quarter....
2011-09-05Indonesia
Consumer price inflation came in at 4.6% y-o-y in June, down from 5.5% y-o-y in May, while core inflation also hedged down slightly. The slowdown in inflation seen in recent months...
2011-08-02Indonesia
The continuation of Indonesia's impressive economic growth will be highly dependent on whether the government can manage to push through bureaucratic reforms to allow for much-needed...
2011-06-06Indonesia
We believe that a cabinet reshuffle is in order in the coming months as Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono seeks to account for his administration's failure to curb religious...
2011-02-18Indonesia
Indonesia's endemic corruption problem is unlikely to improve significantly, at least in the short term. Indeed, in light of some procedural changes, we are worried that President Susilo...
2010-04-22Malaysia
We believe the election of Chua Soi Lek as president of the Malaysian Chinese Association, a junior partner of the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition, will do little to restore its...
2010-03-29
