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The year-to-date league tables on G3 international bonds, equity capital markets and domestic currency debt in some of the major Asia markets.

ANZ moves to snap up stakes in two regional banks in China, while Royal Bank of Scotland, Merrill Lynch and a Li Ka-shing-controlled charity, and separately Temasek, make unlikely bedfellows, each purchasing a 10% slice of Bank of China.

Message from the governor of Bank Indonesia

Antam is a vertically integrated, export-oriented, diversified mining and metals company. With operations spread throughout the mineral-rich Indonesian archipelago, Antam undertakes all activities from exploration, excavation and processing through to marketing of nickel ore, ferronickel, gold, silver, bauxite and iron sands. The company has long-term loyal blue-chip customers in Europe, Australia and Asia. Due to the vastness of the company's licensed exploration areas as well as its known large holdings of high quality reserves and resources, Antam has formed several joint ventures with international partners to profitably develop geological ore bodies into profitable mines.

Indosat is a leading fully integrated telecommunications network and service provider in Indonesia that provides a full complement of national and international telecommunications services with focus on cellular/wireless.

PT Bumi Resources Tbk. (the company) was established in 1973 and is a publicly listed entity on The Jakarta and Surabaya Stock Exchange. The company's core businesses are oil and gas, mining and energy. Since it's listing in 1990, the company has made a number of key acquisitions: Gallo Oil (Jersey) Ltd., PT Arutmin Indonesia and most recently Sangatta Holding Ltd. and Kalimantan Coal Ltd., the owners of PT Kaltim Prima Coal. These acquisitions are in line with the company's vision of becoming a world-class operator with world-wide operations in its core business sectors. The company is now the largest coal producer in Indonesia and is among the top ten largest thermal coal producers in the world, with an estimated annual turnover of US$1.01 billion, production of 36.4 million metric tonnes and sales of 35.9 million metric tonnes in 2004 we supply to markets in Japan, Europe, South America and Asia, as well as to our domestic market.

The origin of PT Perusahaan Perkebunan London Sumatra Indonesia Tbk, or Lonsum, goes back almost a century to 1906 with the initiatives of the London-based Harrisons and Crosfield Plc as general trading and plantation management service company. The London Sumatra Indonesia plantations, which later came to be known as "Lonsum", evolved over time to become one of the world's renowned plantation companies.

Trimegah Securities is Indonesia's leading securities company. Over 15 years, Trimegah has grown to become an independent securities company with more than 30,000 clients overall, 14 branches, and 350 employees.

PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk., here after referred to as TELKOM or the Company, is the largest InfoCom company and full service and network provider in Indonesia. TELKOM and its affiliated companies provide fixed wire line, fixed wireless, mobile service, data & internet and other multimedia services, and network & interconnection. At the end of June 2005, the Company became the majority shareholder of nine companies including PT Telekomunikasi Selular (Telkomsel), which has the largest market share in the cellular industry in Indonesia. In the first half 2005, Telkomsel has achieved the EBITDA margin of 71%, one of the highest in the world.

Indonesia's fight against corruption is facing more than the usual problems of physical danger and attempted bribery of investigators. Bribery is so entrenched that if every guilty person was removed from office, there would be chaos. A possible solution: Look forward, not back.

Liquidity in Asia's foreign exchange markets has declined sharply since 1997-98 but foreign exchange operators are cheered by the move to loosen controls in some markets. Asiamoney asked some of the region's hedge funds, and BNP Paribas what changes they expect in FX markets in coming years and how well banks are servicing their foreign exchange needs.