Grab co-founder Anthony Tan has been hustling these past few years, trying to get close to the political sun across the ...

If repayment is at risk, the bondholders negotiate with the issuer to restructure, typically involving one of three things: stretching maturities, reworking the cashflow, or adjusting the profit rate.

In taking up his stake in SAM, the Malaysian king has effectively exposed himself to the rare-earth business. He also, ...

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I was thinking about what to write today. Usually, being the dan lain-lain1 that I am, the knee-jerk reflex is some pretentious musing on what it means to be Malaysian or that displaced, awkward, ...

I was thinking about putting a different headline since we’re quite touchy about certain words. But, you know what? Nothing is more apt that describing national oil company Petronas a piggybank. This ...

Hype Autopsy covers venture capital, private equity and tech. Non-mainstream stuff, but equal parts exciting, comical and tragic. This was supposed to be newsletter no.2 yesterday but life got in the ...