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Thailand saw a burst of block trades this week as Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund cleaned up its position in local property developer Land & Houses and BTS Group Holdings sold a chunk of VGI Global Media stock.

HSBC has appointed Alexander Malloch as head of its international subsidiary banking (ISB) business in Thailand.

ESR-Reit, a real estate investment trust, has raised S$150m ($109.4m) from a combined placement and preferential offering of new units.

Maybank plans to return to the Chinese debt market on Wednesday with a Rmb2bn ($289m) Panda bond offering after a two-year hiatus. This time around, the Malaysian lender has roped in a policy bank as the trade’s lead underwriter.

Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands is seeking a total of S$4bn ($2.9bn) from the loan market, while also planning to extend its 2012 borrowing.

Packing company Dynapack Asia is tapping the loan market for the first time, seeking a S$250m ($182m) borrowing.

Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC has bagged Bt9.1bn ($290.7m) after offloading its position in Thai property developer Land & Houses, according to a source close to the deal.

Philippine National Bank (PNB) has announced the offer price for its stock rights offering.

Indonesia Eximbank has launched a $900m dual-tranche borrowing into general syndication.

Philippine company International Container Terminal Services has closed its €260m borrowing after changing the use of proceeds.

Lippo Malls Indonesia Retail Trust made its debut in the dollar market on Wednesday, diversifying its investor base and achieving quite a large deal size at an attractive price.

Temasek Holdings and its wholly-owned Azalea Asset Management this week brought out Astrea V, the latest collateralised fund obligation (CFO) backed by cash flow generated from private equity funds, finding an even better response than their last outing.