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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
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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
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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
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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
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Burma state media: dissident monk facing fresh legal charges
A dissident monk who helped lead Myanmar's 2007 anti-government uprising is facing fresh legal action, in part for breaking into monasteries sealed by the former military junta after the mass street protests five years ago, state media reported Sunday.
2012-02-22 - 7:00:00 AM
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PNG's leadership court case delayed
Papua New Guineans will have to wait another week for Supreme Court hearings on the nation's leadership turmoil because lawyers failed to file the correct paperwork in time.
2012-02-22 - 7:00:00 AM
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Boeing Apache fights Tiger in $10b Asian helicopter demand
Boeing Co. (BA), Sikorsky, Eurocopter and Bell (TEXTRON), the top four helicopter makers, are focused on Asia as 1,000 orders from states spanning India to Korea are set to make it the fastest growing military-chopper market by 2015.
2012-02-22 - 7:00:00 AM
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Dollar debt set to remain sparse and steep in Asia
In a world awash with cheap cash from major central banks, it may seem ironic that companies in the top emerging market growth hotspot cannot get their hands on reasonably priced bank loans.
2012-02-22 - 7:00:00 AM
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Asia plugs European aircraft lending gap
Asian banks are filling the void in the aircraft financing market left by squeezed European lenders, but Middle East tensions and the sheer scale of Asia's aviation growth look set to leave the industry's funding on a knife-edge, experts said.
2012-02-21 - 7:13:00 AM
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PNG's Somare ponders return to power
SIR Michael Somare has indicated he might stand for re-election in Papua New Guinea's June poll.
2012-02-21 - 7:12:00 AM
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