The Week That Was in ASEAN@Smartkarma - Towers, Birds, and Banking
In this week's ASEAN weekly offering I include a "Bonus Insight" with Bank Central Asia Tbk Pt (BBCA IJ) from my visit to Jakarta last week. Please...
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US Healthcare Overhaul Stumbling, Singapore Cyclical Rally Looking Premature
The Republican replacement for ‘Obamacare’ has been announced and looks an incoherent mess – resurgent healthcare inflation will be a drag on...
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The Week That Was in ASEAN@Smartkarma (Part 2) - Macet=Traffic Jam
For this week's ASEAN Weekly, created in the midst of Jakarta "Macet", I interviewed Insight Provider and Thai guru Athaporn Arayasantiparb to...
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The Week That Was in Asean@Smartkarma - Sweet Deals, Seaweeds and Shifting Patient Flows
In this week's ASEAN Weekly, I decided to fill in for the series as I suspect Angus Mackintosh is collecting good stories in J-town but got stuck...
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DBS Operations in Hong Kong Are No Respite to Singapore Malaise
DBS bought Dao Heng Bank many years ago in Hong Kong, and as such, it has a meaningful presence there. But unfortunately for DBS, its Hong Kong...
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