07 March, 2016
As appeared in Bloomberg
Senior Fellow of the CIMB ASEAN Research Institute Pauline Loong spoke on Bloomberg about the big gap in China’s policy blueprint for the next five years. She pointed out that notably missing from the outline of China’s Five Year Plan is any mention of strategies to deal with possible large-scale capital outflows once the currency barrier is dismantled, as envisioned in the push for renminbi globalization.
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Economy, Investment and Trade Indonesian tourism sector starts to feel the effects of COVID-19 (2 March 2020) Tourist arrivals to Indonesia in January 2020 totalled 1.27 million, which is around 5.85% higher
Originally published in TheEdge Malaysia, 2 – 8 March 2020 edition. The state visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Myanmar in January could not have been better timed. Just weeks before, Myanmar’s leader
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