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(16 Apr) - China’s weekend decision to widen its currency’s trading band has sparked a debate on where the next yuan offshore trading center will be located. While Hong Kong holds the lead for the amount of international trade settled in yuan, other financial centers like Singapore and London are competing to be crowned... 

(KL, 18 Apr) - Malaysian legislators will soon debate a plan by the ruling coalition to ease decades-old restrictions on newspapers. The planned changes to the Printing Presses and Publication Act are part of Prime Minister Najib Razak's pledge to improve civil liberties and media freedom. Deputy Home Minister Abu Seman Yusop... 

(Reuters, 18 Apr) - Singapore said on Wednesday it will tighten rules to ensure developers reflect the size and layout of apartments more accurately as part of new measures to protect buyers who are less familiar with the property market. From May 18, developers of uncompleted apartments must give drawn-to-scale location plans...