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Regional
Private equity firm bets on Asia's frontier markets
As investors chase yields by investing in high growth emerging markets, private equity firm Leopard Capital is looking beyond traditional economic powerhouses like China and India, to less talked about frontier markets including Myanmar, Bangladesh and Cambodia based on their future growth potential.
2012-02-22 - 7:13:00 AM
Regional
Burma to consider Asean poll monitors
Myanmar has promised to "seriously consider" allowing Southeast Asian observers for by-elections marking the opposition's return to mainstream politics, according to the Asean regional bloc.
2012-02-22 - 7:12:00 AM
Regional
Malaysian, Thai leaders discuss border unrest
The leader of Muslim-majority Malaysia on Monday pledged full assistance to visiting Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra to help resolve the Muslim insurgency raging in southern Thailand.
2012-02-22 - 7:11:00 AM
Resources
Burma opposition says campaign restrictions lifted
Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party said Monday that the authorities had lifted campaign restrictions ahead of closely watched by-elections, just hours after it made a complaint.
2012-02-22 - 7:10:00 AM
Regional
N Korean team leaves for talks with US
North Korea's delegation left for talks about its nuclear programme with the United States, in what will be the first significant contact by the two sides since the death of leader Kim Jong-Il.
2012-02-22 - 7:09:00 AM
Regional
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Hong Kong
HK fights landmark maids residency ruling
Hong Kong's government on Tuesday launched an appeal against a landmark court ruling which grants thousands of foreign maids the right to seek permanent residency in the southern banking hub.
2012-02-22 - 7:08:00 AM
Society
China 'detains Tibetan writer'
Police in southwest China have detained a Tibetan writer amid scores of detentions in the region hit by anti-Chinese protests, according to a US-based broadcaster Radio Free Asia.
2012-02-22 - 7:07:00 AM
Society
Vietnam farmers protest land lost to satellite city
Around 100 disgruntled farmers from northern Vietnam took to the streets of Hanoi on Tuesday for the latest protest in a six-year-long dispute over the confiscation of their land for a satellite city.
2012-02-22 - 7:06:00 AM
Society
Philippine police wanted for Korean kidnap
Philippine authorities have ordered the arrest of ten policemen accused of kidnapping four South Korean tourists in a plot involving their countrymen tour guides, the Manila City government said Monday.
2012-02-22 - 7:05:00 AM
Society
'Hundreds gather' in China after self-immolation
Hundreds of Tibetans gathered in China's southwest to hold a vigil for a young Buddhist monk who set himself on fire, a rights group said, in the latest self-immolation to hit the country.
2012-02-22 - 7:04:00 AM
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