Apr 1, 2013 | News, Southeast Asia
Reuters 31 March 2103 Shares in PT Visi Media Asia Tbk, controlled by the politically connected Bakrie family, jumped as much as 20.4 percent on Monday after the company received takeover proposal from Indonesia-based CT Corp. Indonesia’s fifth-richest man...
Mar 12, 2013 | News, Southeast Asia
HONG KONG, March 12 (Reuters) – Carlyle Group LP and KKR & Co LP are among the bidders to have made first round offers to buy a minority stake in Thai Life Insurance Co Ltd, in a deal said to be worth about $500 million, according to people close to the...
Mar 11, 2013 | India, News, South & Central Asia, Southeast Asia
Economic Times 10 March 2011 BANGALORE: Temasek Holdings, Singapore’s state-owned investment company, has invested Rs 140 crore in Bangalore-headquartered cancer care provider HealthCare Global Enterprises (HCG). The deal, which closed this week, values the...
Mar 10, 2013 | News, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
Berlin (Reuters) – Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings will take a stake in Evonik Industries, two sources close to one of the German company’s owners told Reuters. Temasek will spend more than 600 million euros ($779 million) for 5 percent of the...
Mar 9, 2013 | News, Southeast Asia
HONG KONG, March 8 (Reuters) – PT Matahari Department Store, a CVC Capital Partners-owned Indonesian retailer, has secured about $200 million in initial pledges from cornerstone investors, including Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC and asset manager...
Oct 24, 2012 | Africa, News, Southeast Asia
Ventures Afrca Standard Chartered is set to play a financial expertise and advisory services role as South African-based Invicta Holdings Ltd, revealed plans to acquire Kian Ann Engineering Ltd – a large distributor of heavy equipment parts and diesel engine spares...