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Johan Leven, who was at Goldman Sachs until last year, will join Barclays Capital as co-head of corporate finance. Barclays Capital continues to build its equities team in Asia by hiring a head of equity-research in non-Japan Asia. After a four-year absence, Vietnam has priced a 10-year issue that fared well on its first day of trading compared with the early January issues from Indonesia and the Philippines. Davies assumes the title of head of Asia generalist sales. The Republic of the Philippines opens the Asian bond market in 2010 with a $1.5 billion tap of two existing lines. Barclays Capital recruits Jacqueline Tan from ABN AMRO to head its Southeast Asia risk solutions group as part of a continuing enhancement of its regional investment banking ... Barclays Wealth's latest report on high-net-worth individuals shows that wealthy investors are planning to increase property investments. Asian SWFs have overtaken Middle East government investment arms as the largest acquirers of assets this year, and the biggest increase in spending is in the natural resources ... Price sensitivity keeps the price down, but the offering still comes at a slight premium to Wynn Macau after the latter falls below its IPO price. The spin-off from Las Vegas Sands sets its price range at a slight discount to Wynn Macau's current valuation. Barclays natural resource investments backs Southeast Asia-focused firm Nio Petroleum, which is founded by Richard Hall and Rory Edwards. Targeting a combined $5 billion, the two high-profile deals are coming to market at a time when the global equity markets are again starting to look more challenging. Ben Corbould leaves his job as head of metals trading in Asia at Barclays to take on the same role at Standard Chartered, which has aspirations to grow its metals franchise in ... The former Citi investment banker joins Barclays after a brief stint at Nomura. Zhou is expected to join Barclays Capital, which continues to build its investment banking team in the region. Indonesia's electricity company re-opens the Asian high-yield bond market and attracts huge demand for its 10-year deal. The bank appoints Zhi Zhong Qiu as vice-chairman for Asia-Pacific and chairman for Greater China, which is a newly created role within the firm. State-owned Korea Hydro Nuclear Power meets strong demand for its five-year notes, allowing it to double the size and issue at the tight end of late price guidance. The UK investment bank takes the opportunity to build its capabilities and adds seven staff over the past few weeks, most recently Timothy Last in equity derivatives flow sales. The industry's bright spots are China and India, which are viewed as the most attractive markets in Asia.