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BY KEITH NUTHALL in Paris, ALAN OSBORN in London, MARK ROWE in Singapore, ED PETERS and DON GASPER in Hong Kong, RICHARD HURST in Johannesburg, MONICA DOBIE and PHILIP FINE in Montreal, MATTHEW BRACE in Brisbane and ALEX SMAILES in Port of Spain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MULTILATERAL Investment Guarantee Agency has issued US$43.2 million in guarantees to Singapore’s SembCorp Utilities to cover investment in the construction, operation and maintenance of a 716.8 megawatt combined cycle, gas-fired power plant in Vietnam, near Saigon.…

BY MARK ROWE
WHEN the first two Harry Potter novels hit Singapore shelves, only 200 copies were sold. Now, the battle for sales resembles that between Gryffindor and Slytherin. Members of staff from the Kinokuniya bookstore, dressed as wizards shouted “Harry Potter books this way!”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MULTILATERAL Investment Guarantee Agency has issued US$43.2 million in guarantees to Singapore’s SembCorp Utilities to cover investment in the construction, operation and maintenance of a 716.8 megawatt combined cycle, gas-fired power plant in Vietnam, near Saigon.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
THE CLUTCH of much-maligned offshore financial centres (OFCs) on remote Pacific islands have been swamped by so many accusations of impropriety, they are now struggling to stay afloat.

Labelled as palm-fringed, sun-drenched laundries for the world’s dirty money, these tiny island states and dependent territories are trying to fend off attempts by international organisations to excommunicate them from the global financial church.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE SCHOOL textbook and related academic reading material has been a traditionally lucrative and never-ending market for publishers. But the growing phenomenon of e-learning is opening up new dimensions in this field across the globe.

The reason is the sheer scale of future need for education in developing regions, particularly in Asia where the potential numbers of higher education students is staggering.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A PHD in rocket science is not required to understand that corruption is a problem worldwide. But such a qualification – and more – would be required to devise an effective plan to fight this financial plague. The United Nations’ (UN) is drafting an international convention on corruption and asked a string of experts to write reports to illuminate some issues.…

BY MARK ROWE
IT is only four letters long but for a little word AFTA is having a big impact on the Malaysian tobacco industry. AFTA, the impending free trade block for south-east Asia, is forcing the Malaysian tobacco industry, widely regarded as having the most sophisticated (and expensive) leaf production and manufacturing infrastructure in the region, to radically overhaul the way it goes about its business.…

BY MARK ROWE
SINGAPORE is to set up what it is hailing as the world’s first specialist retailing school. The Retail Academy of Singapore will aim to improve local standards by offering up to 23,000 shop and store staff courses on consumer behaviour, merchandising, management, fashion, food, supermarket economies of scale and information technology.…

BY MARK ROWE
THREE Belgian-owned dredgers detained for nearly seven months by Indonesian authorities for alleged illegal sand mining in the Riau islands, south of Singapore, have finally been released. Dredging International – the owner of the Lange Wapper – and Jan de Nul – the owner of the Vasco da Gama and Alexander Von Humboldt – are understood to have agreed to pay fines demanded by Indonesian authorities for the release of their dredgers.…