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Metallurgical Corporation of China (MCC) was one of a number of Chinese state-owned enterprises to sell bonds in the international market this week, bagging $500m from the first senior perpetual deal in the region in more than a month.

Mapletree Greater China Commercial Trust Management has raised S$330.3m ($248.8m) after selling a block of new units to help fund the purchase of Japanese assets.

Chinese technology equipment company Hauwai dropped a planned dollar tranche on its latest visit to the corporate bond marker and chose to issue its first bond in euros. This did, however, mean the company opted for a five year maturity, rather than the 10 year tenor it had marketed for the dollar bond.

Metallurgical Corporation of China and BOC Aviation found strong investor support for their bonds on Monday, with the former bagging Asia’s first senior perpetual bond in more than a month and the latter walking away with an over six times covered transaction.

Summit Power International’s hopes to be the first Bangladeshi issuer to list in Singapore have fizzled out after its $260m IPO was withdrawn.

BOC Aviation, Metallurgical Corporation of China (MCC) and Bumi Serpong Damai were the first out of the gates on Monday morning with their new bond deals, as the Asian debt market prepares for an onslaught of supply.

Vietnam’s Nghi Son 2 Power, which counts Japanese trading and investment conglomerate Marubeni Corp as one of its investors, has raised a $1.869bn project loan from a group of mainly Japanese lenders.

Yuexiu Real Estate Investment Trust, the only Chinese Reit to have issued bonds offshore, returned last Friday for a $400m three year deal, pricing it slightly inside its parent company’s curve.

Indonesian issuers continued to keep the market focused on new equity fundraisings, as several IPOs launched this week.

Several Chinese real estate companies, including Sunac China Holdings and Central China Real Estate, took advantage of relatively stable markets to ride the dollar issuance momentum this week. But supply pressure meant that many saw their bonds then trade under water.

Medikaloka Hermina has hit screens for an IPO in Indonesia to raise up to Rph2.6tr ($193m) in primary and secondary proceeds.

Four high yield property companies, Sunac China Holdings, Central China Real Estate, Jingrui Holdings and Yanlord Land Group, raised a total of $2.05bn on Monday, with some of them focusing on price and the others on size. But irrespective of their strategy, recent heavy supply pushed their bonds lower in the secondary market.