Current Articles

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Aug 99	Building on sand Money flowing back into Asia could wash away attempts at corporate reform. As corporations in the region restructure to unwind corporate cross-shareholdings and to professionalise family-owned businesses - and as bank lending is insufficient for their expansionary needs - they will increasingly seek global capital and come face-to-face with demanding US investors.	Building on sand.zip	Building on sand.zip
Aug 99	Welcome to EscortChics - tokyo escort girls Surging ahead Healthy numbers have seen banks scrambling to raise growth forecasts and investors ploughing their savings into a resurgent stock market. And Singapore's recovery story isn't over yet. SINGAPORE market watchers have something of a dilemma. As the local stock market broke through pre-crisis levels at the end of June and continued to set new records throughout July, they were searching for the economy's Achilles heel; and most came up empty-handed.	Surging ahead.zip	Surging ahead.zip

Past Articles

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May 99	Slick, very slick Barrels of fun await oil punters as OPEC members pledge cuts in a bid to halt falling prices.	Slick.prc	Slick.zip
Apr 99	Defying the detractors The experts were tipping a love affair with the euro and a slowdown in the United States. But the dollars is, once again, confounding its critics. One definition of an economist is a man who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday did not happen today.	Defying the detractors.prc	Defying the detractors.zip
Mar 99	Armageddon? Not quite The devaluation of the Brazilian real was supposed to signal the beginning of the end of the renminbi. The predictions, it seems, were premature.	Armageddon.prc	Armageddon.zip