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Liu Mingkang, China's chief bank regulator, tells Emerging Markets how he plans to get banking reform right

Experts reveal their priorities for the region

EU Membership key to strong ties between Islam and west

As strategic investors swoop in from abroad, competition in Turkey's banking sector is heating up. Will it last?

Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan sees his country emerging again as a major world power. In an exclusive interview with Emerging Markets, he spells out his vision for Turkey's future.

New ADB president Haruhiko Kuroda tells Emerging Markets of his ambitious plans for the multilateral

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Taiwan's burgeoning securitization market shows up the island as one of South-east Asia's more sophisticated financial centres. Emerging Markets finds out the secret of its success.

Japan is creating national banking champions to compete with US and European rivals. Will they succeed or will they be forced to retreat as their predecessors were a decade ago?

China dominates almost all international policy summits these days, and the ADB's annual meeting will be no exception. Whether it's the country's exchange rate stance, its economic outlook, its banking system, its trade policy or its capital markets development, China takes the headlines.

When Thai AirAsia's inaugural flight took off from Bangkok on a clear February morning in 2004, it carried more than the hopes of majority shareholder Shin Corp. As part of a high-profile promotion campaign, the flight carried senior group executives, the deputy governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand and members of the press. But what should have been an advertiser's dream turned into a public relations nightmare. The plane was forced to turn around little more than 20 minutes after take-off and return to Bangkok after a wing flap indicator malfunctioned. By the time it took off again an hour later, most VIPs had vanished.

While the Chinese authorities have made it very clear about their intentions to sort out and sell off the country's state-owned banks, each time auditors dig a little bit deeper another skeleton falls out the corporate closet. Investors, analysts and a lawyer discuss whether anyone will buy into such tarnished institutions.