Asia Pacific reporter for @pionline, covering asset management. Previously @AsianInvestor, @SCMPNews, @Businesstimes. Tweets represent my own views.

Singapore
Joined October 2015
"Rates coming down will help as more deals get done. @blackstone's Gray uses the size of his bag when he goes home on the weekends as an indicator (of deals in the pipeline) — he’s carrying 2 bags now vs. one." Joe Dowling via @NatalieOnLoop @pensionsnews pionline.com/alternatives/20…
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#BREAKING Former chief editor of now-shuttered online news platform #StandNews Chung Pui-kuen is sentenced to 21 months in jail and Patrick Lam is given a sentence that will allow him to walk free over conviction of “conspiracy to publish seditious publications”.
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Tencent and Alibaba now together back almost all of China's LLM startups. You don't see this kind of funding frenzy since, ugh, bike-sharing days. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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#NOW Selina Cheng @selina_cheng was fired this morning by @WSJ , weeks after she refused to withdraw from her newly-elected chairmanship and renewed ex-com membership of @HKJA_Official despite demands from the Journal’s senior editors and her supervisor in the UK.
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Bridgewater Associates is planning to raise performance fees for its onshore funds in China after solid returns lured more assets, overcoming turmoil in the country’s 5.2 trillion yuan ($715 billion) hedge fund industry. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @markets
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Hong Kong's property market has lost $270 billion in value in the last five years, the longest downturn since SARS. Homeowners are now increasingly contemplating what once was unthinkable — selling at a loss bloomberg.com/news/features/… via @wealth @krystalchia @cfb_18
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It's #HongKong's biggest national security case. In Jan 2021, 47 pro-democracy figures were arrested for staging a primary vote. They're accused of subversion, a serious NSL crime punishable by up to life in prison. Today, the court declared 14 of the 16 accused *guilty*.
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Singapore vs Hong Kong in tourism, 2023 Visitors 🇸🇬 13,610,435 🇭🇰 33,999,660 Tourism Receipts 🇸🇬 S$27.16 billion (US$20.19 billion) 🇭🇰 HK$141.234 billion (US$18.103 billion) Per capita spending 🇸🇬 S$1,995 (US$1483) 🇭🇰 HK$4,154 (US$532) (HKTB, SingStat) scmp.com/business/article/32…
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