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.
STATE BORROWINGS dropped by more than half year-on-year in the first quarter as the government continued to trim down its external debt, data from the Bureau of the Treasury showed. The government borrowed a
Malaysians voted on Sunday in an election that could weaken or even end the rule of the world’s longest-ruling coalition, which faces a stiff challenge from an opposition pledging to clean up politics and
Malaysians have begun voting in an election that could weaken or even end the rule of one of the world’s longest-lived coalitions, which faces a stiff challenge from an opposition pledging to clean up
Malaysia’s opposition enjoys a very narrow lead over the long ruling National Front for the first time in a key poll issued on Friday, two days before an election in the Southeast Asian country.
The latest opinion survey in Malaysia shows the Opposition coalition is slightly ahead for the first time, as Malaysians prepare to vote in Sunday’s general election. Malaysia’s political rivals have launched a last-ditch campaign
Petronas Nasional Bhd (Petronas), the national oil company, yesterday announced the successful drilling of the Cendor Graben-2 appraisal well within Block PM304, offshore Peninsula Malaysia. In a statement here, Petronas said the well was
The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) will hold an auction to sell 26,000 taels of gold bars tomorrow [May 3] in an effort to stabilize the local gold market, according to information released by
The Bank of Thailand’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is ready to cooperate with the Finance Ministry to implement timely policies to stabilise the baht. After a meeting to discuss economic data yesterday, the MPC
Malaysia faces the risk of public protests over the accuracy of results from the May 5 national election after an opposition-backed group cited evidence of vote buying and bias by the official ballot oversight
Standard & Poor’s cut its ratings outlook on Indonesia’s debt to stable from positive, signaling that a stalling of reform momentum and a weaker external profile have reduced the chance of an upgrade over