Our Man In Pattaya
DJN reporter Phisanu Phromchanya, covering the Asean meeting in Pattaya, Thailand, sends this dispatch about the anti-government protests which have overtaken this seaside town where leaders of...
View ArticleThailand, “Back To Square One”
Standard Chartered has a note out today titled, “Thailand-Back to square one.” The bank says the weekend protests that caused cancelation of the Asean summit at Pattaya – only to sprawl into the...
View ArticleSingapore Secrecy
Singapore “styles itself as Asia’s Switzerland,” writes DJN colleague Costas Paris. This is a problem, at the moment, as Western governments target money laundering and tax evasion around the world....
View ArticleSam Rainsy
The head of Cambodia’s parliamentary opposition was in Singapore last night and spoke eloquently and wryly – with a slight French accent – about his country’s severe poverty and political dictatorship...
View ArticleMemo From Singapore: Asian Growth Recovery Brings Some Headaches
Anyone living in Singapore has known for a while that the economy is coming back. Restaurants and bars are full, shopping centres are humming, and it’s harder to find an available taxi. We had...
View ArticleThai Markets Calm Down But Funds Will Look Long Term
(This is a Money Talks column that first ran on Dow Jones Newswires earlier Wednesday) Thailand is not the new Indonesia but the speed with which the country’s financial markets have calmed down over...
View ArticleCracks In The BRICS Expose The Status Quo
(This earlier ran on Dow Jones Newswires as a Money Talks column) For all the talk about new world orders, new blocs, new spheres of influence and such we are yet to see the Group of 20 flex much...
View ArticleA Round Of “Claytons” Capital Controls For Asia
We can’t really call them capital controls, or even quasi-capital controls. Can we call them capital curbs? Capital management? Perhaps we can call them Claytons controls, after the nonalcoholic drink...
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