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  • Indonesia is rolling out the red carpet for foreign investors, says Al Hilal Hamdi, head of the government panel to promote the country's fledgling biofuels sector. He sat down with Asiamoney to reveal some of the incentives being mulled.
  • Investors into Asia should be thrilled with the way the capital markets turned out in 2006. The equity market enjoyed a storming year in terms of trading and new issuance, while the bond markets featured an array of exciting and innovative transactions.
  • The good times may be over for Asia's leading stock exchanges. Regional equity traders had a blinding 2006, with many bourses hitting record highs. But that is likely to change in 2007, with the US economy looking set to slow. In an outlook for the year ahead, Richard Morrow debates whether Asia's bull-run is finally at an end.
  • With the giant initial public offering of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China over, the door opened once again for other equity deals. The largest was the Australian government sale of part of its stake in Testra.
  • Credit Suisse gets a new CEO, BNP Paribas pillages ABN AMRO for staff, and banker bonuses look set to soar.
  • Qantas accepts an A$11.1 billion buy-out by a private equity consortium, India's Tata Steel gets into a bidding war for Anglo-Dutch group Corus, and Lone Star terminates the sale of its stake in Korea Exchange Bank.
  • Guo Shuqing, the youthful chairman of China Construction Bank, has plenty on his plate. Tasked with fulfilling the lender's aggressive expansion plans, he also wants to change what he sees as the bank's bureaucratic mindset. Ranked 31st on Asiamoney's list of the region's most influential businesspeople, he outlines the road ahead for Elliot Wilson.
  • Following a generally good year for equities markets in Asia and decent global growth, what advice would you offer wealthy individuals in early 2007?
  • 1. IRPC (formerly Thai Petrochemical Industry) – return on equity 100.38
  • Macau is Asia's best-known centre for gambling, but plenty of other countries have also eyed the potential tax revenues and licence fees to be gained by opening casinos.
  • BNP Paribas Private Bank is one of the top second-tier private banks in Asia, and its recent hiring of 18 staff from ABN AMRO's north Asia team points to bigger ambitions. But CEO Michel Longhini is worried that too many banks are expanding without offering enough advisory work, as he tells Richard Morrow.
  • Thaksin Shinawatra, the former prime minister and ever the consummate businessman, put forward the idea of developing casinos in Thailand at the end of 2002, almost two years after coming to power. It was around the time that he had met MGM Mirage chief executive officer Joseph Terrence Lanni.