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(Bloomberg) -- In the high-stakes world of gift giving in Asia's financial hubs, Montblanc pens and leather folios are out -- toilet paper and surgical masks are most definitely in. The Singapore arm of online trading provider IG Group went viral after handing out party packs with 3M Co. N95 face masks, digital thermometers and bottles of Dettol antiseptic. [Extracted from the article]

The article reports that the London Stock Exchange is likely to gain its first paper company after Bilt Paper of India chose the exchange over Hong Kong and Singapore for its initial public offering (IPO) worth more than 330 million U.S. dollars. Bilt Paper aims to gain access to sector specialists in Europe and emerging market investors in Great Britain. The company is owned by listed Indian group Ballarpur Industries and private equity investors Lathe Investment.

The article reports on the developments in the operation of German firm KfW, including plans to raise 70-75 billion euros in 2013. According to the company's head of capital markets, Horst Seissinger, they expect higher interest in their bond issuances in 2013. Seissiner said that they will still focus on Asian currencies, particularly on Hong Kong and Singapore dollars.

JCB International Co. Ltd., a financial infrastructure platform, has expanded its partnership with Stripe into Europe, Singapore and Hong Kong. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Chartwell Capital's Chan said Hong Kong can take a roundabout approach and still benefit from the boom. (Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong and Singapore are trying to get in on the boom in blank check company listings, while safeguarding investors from what some say is a bubble about to burst. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong and Singapore are in discussions again over a postponed travel bubble, the South China Morning Post reported Saturday, citing an unnamed government source. The Hong Kong-Singapore travel bubble, originally slated to begin in November last year, was postponed after a surge of new coronavirus infections in Hong Kong. [Extracted from the article]

This article focuses on computing in small countries. There is a surprising number of little countries around the world whose development of, and uses for information technology (IT) are out of proportion to their sizes and natural resources endowments. Their national circumstances and IT activities are as diverse as their geographic distribution. Several small countries have become major IT producers or sophisticated users. These include the city-states of Singapore and Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, New Zealand and Nordic nations. Singapore and Hong Kong have high levels of hardware production, exports and advanced information infrastructures. Hardly twins, their differences are as striking as their similarities. Both have succeeded as hosts for foreign investment and as export platforms for multinational corporations. However, while Singapore has been able to upgrade its level of technology in response to rising wages and competition from low--wage countries, Hong Kong has responded by moving from low wages production into nearby southern China.

The article discusses the conditions of the local currency bond markets of Hong Kong, China and Singapore. They are often hailed as the models to which the rest of Asia's fledgling domestic capital markets should aspire. . The region's two largest markets do offer efficient funding alternatives for certain issuers and volumes are growing across the board, but a mismatch between the demands of investors and borrowers is holding back further development.

The article focuses on a research paper by Alwyn Young, a business professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which looks at how Hong Kong, China and Singapore became such economics giants. Hong Kong and Singapore started on a similar footing in 1945. Both were city states, British colonies making their living as trading ports. Both climbed the same industrial ladder, moving up from textiles to plastics to consumer electronics to financial services. The sources of growth in the two territories turned out to be startlingly different. In the two decades after 1970, Hong Kong's output per worker went up more than 2.5 times, Singapore's a little more than twofold. By the mid-1980s Singapore's incremental capital-output ratio was twice Hong Kong's. Hong Kong seemed to benefit so much from the better education of its people.

The article focuses on Robin Hall, a onetime London investment banker in his experience as an investor. Hall was the who founded the Taiwan Fund, the first foreign fund that was permitted to invest in Taiwan. Hall stresses that for 20 years he was able to manage an investment in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong. However, he had encountered problems with the Taiwan's financial jungle. Hall describes Taipei market has a riddle with stock manipulation in which standard financial market does not exist.

Comments on the extraordinary economic growth stories of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore, along with South Korea. Hong Kong's almost anything goes economy, and of fear when starting businesses; Singapore's sharp character contrast, and governmentcontrolled companies; Taiwan as the Asian version of Italy, with its numerous restriction on setting up businesses; Taiwan's art of tax avoidance; All three countries are investing heavily outside their borders.

(Bloomberg) -- Moderna Inc. requested clearance for its coronavirus vaccine in the U.S. after a new analysis showed it was highly effective in preventing Covid-19, with no serious safety problems. Trump Adviser Atlas Resigns (10:07 a.m. HK) White House coronavirus adviser Scott Atlas, who won President Donald Trump's favor by advocating the loosening of social distancing restrictions during the pandemic, resigned his post on Monday, according to a White House official. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on the importance of increased public spending in information technology (IT) industry to improve the delivery of public service in Hong Kong, China and Singapore. It notes that the increased public sector infrastructure spending transformed the information and communications technology (ICT). It also discusses the efforts of the government in Hong Kong and Singapore to improve public service through social media.

(Bloomberg) -- Singapore's approach to the virus is set to become a defining issue in upcoming elections as the economy began a phased reopening Tuesday. Johnson Plans Major Speech on Post-Virus U.K. (8:31 a.m. HK) Boris Johnson plans to reset his government's agenda with a major speech and a financial statement to prepare the U.K. for the new reality after the coronavirus pandemic. Hong Kong Finds More Cases Linked to Local Cluster: RTHK (7:58 a.m. HK) The four new virus cases are people who live in the same Sha Tin building as a couple earlier confirmed with the pathogen, Radio Television Hong Kong reported. 24 Hour Fitness Skips Payment Ahead of Bankruptcy (7:26 a.m. HK) 24 Hour Fitness Worldwide Inc. is skipping a payment on its bonds ahead of a planned bankruptcy restructuring, according to people with knowledge of the matter, after the coronavirus pandemic shut its gyms and crimped its cash flow. [Extracted from the article]

Daily infections in Singapore rose above 1,000 after an outbreak among migrant workers in shared dormitories intensified, while Hong Kong had no new cases for the first time since March. China Hits Out at Virus Claims (3:30 p.m. HK) China's foreign ministry said on Monday the international community "should work together through these difficult times instead of pointing fingers at each other. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- In the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic, Singapore and Hong Kong saw similar success with dramatically different approaches. While Hong Kong has recently seen its case tally slow to a couple dozen a day, Singapore's has surged 180% in the past two weeks with infections popping up in places from pre-schools to migrant worker dormitories. [Extracted from the article]

In this article, the author analyzes the bond market competition between Singapore and Hong Kong, China, in 2008. According to the author, Hong Kong enjoyed a strong year in 2007 while the Singapore dollar bond market fell. But in 2008, the author observes, Hong Kong is stalling and Singapore is growing strongly. He attributes the decline of the Hong Kong bond market to the unfavorable basis swap movements. He notes that Singaporean investors are more isolated from the turmoil in the international markets.

The article reports that Pertamina, an Indonesian state-owned oil and gas producer, has marketed its fourth U.S. dollar bond as part of a 5 billion dollar global medium term note programme. It is scheduled to meet with investors in Hong Kong, Singapore, London, England and three U.S. cities from May 8-10, 2013 to launch a multi-tranche Reg S/144A bond. Each of the three outstanding deals of Pertamina contains 10 and 30 year tranches.

Presents news items related to the motion picture industry in Hong Kong, India, Japan, Singapore and Thiland as of November 26, 2002. Price-slashing exercise launched in September 2002 by exhibitors in Hong Kong; Hope for the Indian motion picture industry from multiplex cinemas; Projections for growth in the Thiland cinemas.