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Government takes aim at corporation tax

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... Hong Kong it is 16.5%. These countries also have the advantage of being geographically on the doorstep of Europe, Southeast Asia and China respectively - advantages which Australia does not have. However, developed nations that, like Australia, rely ...

Survivor: the Philippines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 NOV 2013
... whom it may concern". (unknown) The 2004 Boxing Day tsunami that wrought deaths and disaster in 15 countries in Southeast Asia and Africa proved this. Hurricane Katrina that devastated southeastern America in August 2005 proved this. So did the earthquake ...

North Asian cyclical stocks 'unjustifiably cheap'

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2013
... that the demand for yield and the perceived strength of the ASEAN countries had seen investors bid up the prices of Southeast Asian companies with defensive characteristics over recent years. For investors with a contrarian approach, Asia's susceptibility ...

US Hedge Fund Association opens in Australia

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
... family offices, high net worth individuals and service providers. In the US, the HFA has chapters in the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest and on the West Coast and has expanded internationally with chapters in Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Cayman ...

Losing triple A by trying to maintain AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2013

GFG Group partners with Attra to boost payment service

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013
... opportunities in emerging markets, where demand for high-quality but more affordable payment solutions is growing. Southeast Asia (including Myanmar and Vietnam), the Middle East and Africa have already been singled out as target markets.

Diamond in the region

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
... in the world (soon the first?) and now recent growth stats showed the Philippines the best performing economy in Southeast Asia. How good is that? I can be proud no matter what nationality I choose. Philippine GDP jumped by a better than expected 7.1% ...

J.P. Morgan buys into online shopping

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... consumer electronics to household goods and is ranked in the top 20,000 websites worldwide despite launching in Southeast Asia just this year. "We feel very honoured to welcome J.P. Morgan to our investor group and are particularly excited to be joined ...

It's more fun in the Philippines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
... China would have repercussions - good or bad or ugly - on the rest of the world. But there's a tiny country in southeast Asia that appears to be going its own, silently but steadily improving over the past two years. Introducing the Philippines -- the ...

$10bn in Asia M&A deals so far in 2012

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2012
... the region, accounted for $10 billion in deals in the last three months alone, despite this activity being in a dip. "Southeast Asian M&A rebounded 50.5% in Q1 2012 after a lacklustre last quarter, registering 64 transactions valued at US$ 9.9bn," noted ...