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Net income took a knock in the first quarter, but this listed Malaysian refiner has a three-point plan for improvement.

Asiamoney profiles the region's best equity researchers to find out what makes them No. 1.

The best country brokers use local market and client knowledge to compete on their home turf against the powerful global players.

Cairn has done more to promote overseas interest in India's oil and gas industry than any firm, domestic or foreign. Long a fringe player in Asia's energy sector (it has been a sizeable operator in Bangladesh for more than a decade), Cairn struck black gold in India in late 2004, with the biggest domestic oil discovery for 22 years. The world-class oil field in Mangala, northern Rajasthan, was found to contain up to 3.5 billion barrels of recoverable oil. Cairn's stock more than doubled, to nearly £24 (US$43.70) in May 2006, from just under £12 a year earlier, before dropping back slightly.

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CNOOC has been at the vanguard of Chinese oil acquisitions overseas. Earlier this year it agreed to pay US$2.3 billion for a 45% stake in offshore gas and oil fields owned by South Atlantic Petroleum in the Niger River Delta. It was CNOOC's first major acquisition since abandoning an US$18 billion bid for US oil company Unocal, a bid in which it would be fair to say it did not receive a warm welcome from US politicians. Yang Hua, the chief financial officer at CNOOC, was closely involved in both, having spent more than 10 years in CNOOC's M&A team before stepping up to his new job. He was chief negotiator in Nigeria. "A lot of people are asking: why buy this, why buy that? It's value driven. As long as you are creating value for shareholders, that's the direction we are going to pursue."

After the collapse of what should have been the biggest and most important IPO in Thailand's history, Ben Davies goes behind to scenes to find out why the privatization, talked of for so long, ended up in such a mess. And who is ultimately to blame?

China has a prodigious thirst for oil and raw materials, having turned from an exporter of oil to an importer in less than a generation. But pricing and tax issues cloud the picture for its domestic oil giants. Chris Wright reports.

The Asian Development Bank is preparing a new bond issue in Indonesia. But, as Eric Van Zant argues, the ADB and other international financial institutions need to consider a broader array of measures to signal they seriously want to nurture local-currency bond markets.

India's oil and gas sector, for so long merely a footnote, is now grabbing headlines with its robust growth. Private energy firms are ramping up refining capacity, while state-run corporates like ONGC are boosting production at home and abroad. Even foreign oil majors are looking to enter the country for the first time in 30 years. Elliot Wilson reports.

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Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission is earning a reputation for putting the brakes on Chinese real estate investment trusts, while favouring those from Hong Kong in the still nascent, yet highly fashionable, market. Elliot Wilson reports.