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Find out who the region's investors and analysts believe to be the best companies in India and the best executive. In the brokers poll there was a record response making it the biggest brokers poll ever. Asiamoney publishes the names of the best brokers and analysts in the country. Page 29

Jakarta to address dwindling oil output as ExxonMobil sells Aceh gas stake, Indonesia's inflation falls while FDI surges 30%, and Telekomunikasi Indonesia sees profits double.

Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom) is the nation's biggest company by market value, as well as the dominant player in the telecommunications industry. In the years ahead, however, the 51% state-owned group faces an unprecedented rise in competition, especially from major international telecoms players. ASIAMONEY sits down with Arwin Rasyid, president director and chief executive, to discuss the company's future plans.

The region's debt capital markets have grown in leaps and bounds, taking on a distinctly global flavour as issuers seek Asian investors and investors seek Asian issues.

Over the past year, interest-rate structured products have gone from being an investor favourite to an also-ran. Their decline is undoubtedly down to the US interest-rate curve morphing from a steep slope to virtually flat over the past 12 months as the Federal Reserve raised interest rates, and the market began dithering about the future of rate movements. The US interest-rate swaps curve has also flattened, placing more pressure on the US Treasury curve. The dip in the yield curve means that structured notes that take any view on markets rates have ceased to offer value. They rely on a steep interest-rate curve and there is uncertainty where interest rates will actually move to.

Asian commodity-linked investor products have been relatively simple so far. Institutional investors favour simple products with one- or two-year maturities such as structured deposits or notes that offer exposure to baskets of commodity swaps that duplicate commodity indices. Metals have been the most popular Asian investment traditionally and metals indices have been a favourite underlying investment.

The activities of the Asian Development Bank go a long way to building the depth and credibility of the region's bond markets.

Amando Tetangco was appointed governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), the Philippine central bank, in early 2005 after his high-profile predecessor Rafael Buenaventura retired. Tetangco was Buenaventura's deputy for several years, and his choice as governor was a clear signal that the government wanted continuity in monetary policy and further consolidation in the banking sector. Asiamoney sat down with Tetangco, a 30-year central bank veteran, to discuss the country's outlook.

When CalPERS, one of the world's most powerful institutional investors, revealed it had downgraded India in February, eyebrows were raised around the world. After all, India is supposedly a reforming character, a corporate governance disciple with a soaring market. Yet, as Chris Wright reports, hundreds of millions of dollars of investments rest not on a deterioration in India's fundamentals but largely on a Santa Monica consultancy's policy on whether to round up decimal points.

Is uranium getting too hot to handle? Or are canny investors locking in some long-term gains by snapping up companies with even tenuous links to supply of the precious ore? Giles Parkinson reports.

Proton Holdings prepares to remodel, Petronas/Chevron is granted the right to explore off Vietnam's coast and Bank Muamalat searches for partners. Meanwhile, the government raises interest rates as the consumer price index increases.