Asia

Indonesia’s Flailing Floor Plans

The Jakarta Stock Exchange’s tragic floor collapse, injuring visiting high school students, prompted management promise of an immediate “audit” into ...

Asia’s Fleeting Triumph Trundle

Emerging Asia core stock markets outperformed Europe and Latin America ones in 2017 with a 40% gain, above the benchmark ...

Mongolia’s Daring Debt Dash

Mongolia was lauded for more “durable than anticipated” 3% GDP growth in 2017 in December’s first review of its $400 ...

The Yangon Stock Exchange’s Anniversary Angst

The Yangon Stock exchange added a fifth telecoms firm listing and launched on-line trading  to mark its second year since ...

Nepal’s Framed Frontier Expedition

After disappearing from early emerging market investor radar screens in the 1990s with a prolonged plunge into civil war and ...

The Asian Development Bank’s Yield Chase Chastening

The Asian Development Bank’s November local bond monitor covering the third quarter in nine East Asian government and corporate markets ...

The Rohingya Crisis’ Regional Doubt Reverberations

While President Trump’s maiden Asia voyage focused on the headline themes of bilateral China relations, North Korea standoff, and trade ...

Central Asia’s Prickly Business Reform Prize

The 15th edition of the World Bank’s Doing Business report, which surveys tens of thousands of entrepreneurs, lawyers and accountants for ...

Iran’s Currency Run Unraveling Pose

Iran’s currency, which had gradually moved over the past year in official and parallel markets from 30,000 toward 35,000 to ...

Refugee Bonds’ Bangladesh Rohingya Crisis Bound

With almost half of Myanmar’s one million Muslim Rohingya population already pouring into next-door Bangladesh by land and sea to ...

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