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A Hong Kong government bond issuance endured a farcical process to choose the bookrunners but then earned high praise for the way in which it was brought to market.

At Asiamoney's annual equity forum, the experts gave their outlook for the coming months ahead.

Deepak Sharma, president of Asia Pacific & Middle East, private banking, is a Citigroup veteran, having been with the bank for 28 years. The former atomic researcher talks to Asiamoney about how clients should choose a private bank, what challenges the industry faces as it grows, and just what has been the fall out for Citigroup in Asia following the closure of its private banking operation in Japan.

China's government has tried to slow the country's rampant economic growth to rein in key sectors where it fears over-investment is creating a bubble. But tighter lending controls and higher interest rates haven't tarnished the country's attractiveness to foreign investors, according to two leading fund managers and two foreign investment lawyers.

Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's party is back on the campaign trail. While he tries to grab votes for the February election, he is also quietly trying to organize a set of grandiose infrastructure projects. But such projects do not have a happy history in Thailand and market observers are beginning to question just who will foot the bill. Richard Morrow reports.

Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's party is back on the campaign trail. While he tries to grab votes for the February election, he is also quietly trying to organize a set of grandiose infrastructure projects. But such projects do not have a happy history in Thailand and market observers are beginning to question just who will foot the bill. Richard Morrow reports.

Will the Korean won fall below W1,000 to US$1 in the next few months? If so, what will be the consequences for Korea's competitive standing in Asia, and what impact will this have on the country? Should officials intervene to stop the rapid appreciation?

As embarrassments go, this one must rank as one of the biggest, even for a government used to regular pillorying. The fate of the world's largest IPO of a property-investment vehicle, the Hong Kong Housing Authority's US$3 billion LINK REIT, hangs in the balance. Having already been forced into a delay due to a legal challenge, the government and its cohorts of advisers led by Goldman Sachs, HSBC, UBS and JPMorgan are now faced with the very real prospect of the IPO unravelling altogether if they are unable to resolve the legal obstacles.

In the three and a half years since he was appointed governor of the Bank of Thailand, M.R. Pridiyathorn Devakula has walked the high wire as he has sought to reform the crisis-hit central bank whilst pursuing an independent monetary and exchange rate policy. But against all the odds, the 57-year-old career banker has so far pulled it off. By Ben Davies.

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G3 international bonds and domestic currency debt

As embarrassments go, this one must rank as one of the biggest, even for a government used to regular pillorying. The fate of the world's largest IPO of a property-investment vehicle, the Hong Kong Housing Authority's US$3 billion LINK REIT, hangs in the balance. Having already been forced into a delay due to a legal challenge, the government and its cohorts of advisers led by Goldman Sachs, HSBC, UBS and JPMorgan are now faced with the very real prospect of the IPO unravelling altogether if they are unable to resolve the legal obstacles. What makes the situation all the more risible is that this fiasco was caused by two elderly residents making a simple and valid legal challenge that was presumably, entirely foreseeable. One wonders what legal advice the government took ahead of the IPO, as the judge pointedly remarked in his judgment on the case.