Meera Tharmaratnam

Bank Bali gets a recapitalization plan, leaving regulators until October to smoke out those controlling the stock.

An unpopular merger plan leads to a market pummelling. Public Bank proponents say investors are thinking too short term.

DBS'' Thai unit pulls off the first bank auction in Thailand and gets rid of its bad debts.

Malaysia''s corporate debt restructuring chief talks about Malaysia''s bond market and what needs solving.

Malaysia''s corporate debt restructuring chief talks about infrastructure problems and Malaysia''s plans to solve them.

The first in a three-part interview with Chellappah Rajandram - the chief of Malaysia''s corporate debt restructuring agency - on the attempts to turn around the debt-laden Renong group.

The Philippine government will decide on Friday whether to sell its 30% stake in the Philippines'' largest troubled lender to its biggest shareholder.

Maybank''s plans to take over PhileoAllied Bhd have been scuppered by one of PhileoAllied''s shareholders, Avenue Assets. There''s also more bad news for the Utama-AMMB merger.

Some say the creditor got a 20% in TimedotCom, Time Engineering''s 100% unit. Sapura insists it has taken only 5%.

Unlike the Malaysian banks that were forced to write off 100% of loans to NSC, Philippine lenders will likely lend more.