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        <title><![CDATA[Mariko Ishikawa - Former Reporter]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tencent Is Said to Eye Jumbo Dollar Loan at Its Lowest Cost]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-07/tencent-is-said-to-eye-jumbo-dollar-loan-at-its-lowest-cost</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2019 11:04:41 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Alternative Lenders Rush Into Property Market Down Under]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-25/alternative-debt-providers-grow-in-australia-s-property-market</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mariko Ishikawa]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2019 20:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Residential buildings and houses stand in the Darling Point area as skyscrapers in the central business district stand in the background in Sydney, Australia, on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019. Prices in Australia&apos;s biggest city have tumbled 10 percent and some economists are tipping a similar fall this year. While the central bank isn&apos;t panicking just yet, a 15 percent nationwide drop in prices would cut about A$1 trillion ($720 billion) from the housing stock value.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Trade War Ripple? Indonesian Textile Maker Misses Dollar Debt Payment]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mariko Ishikawa]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2019 03:15:30 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Nexon Founder Said to Shelve $13 Billion Game Developer Sale]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Manuel Baigorri]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 27 Jun 2019 14:24:22 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Jeong Se Hyun, a professional video-game player, uses a computer keyboard as he competes against Yang Jin Hyeob, not pictured, during the final round of the Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) Sports FIFA Online Championship at the Nexon Co. e-Sports Stadium in Seoul, South Korea, on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2015. Video game competitions, known as eSports, have been expanding as gamers seek to shift perceptions around their craft from a basement hobby to a serious money making industry.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Riskier Leveraged Loans Are Starting to Crop Up in Asia]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-26/riskier-leveraged-loans-are-starting-to-crop-up-in-asia-markets</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mariko Ishikawa]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2019 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Commercial and residential buildings stand in Singapore, right, as vehicles travel along the Causeway across the Straits of Johor at dawn in this aerial photograph taken above Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia, on Thursday, June 20, 2019. Malaysia&apos;s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said he underestimated the challenges of governing the country before his shock election victory last year. “I underestimated because we were on the outside and we didn’t get any information on what was happening on the inside,” Mahathir said. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[China Set to Lead ESG Disclosure to Lure Foreign Investments]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-20/china-set-to-lead-esg-disclosures-to-lure-foreign-investments</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jacqueline Poh]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2019 00:40:32 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Brookfield Lands Green Loan in Perth as Asian Market Expands]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-14/brookfield-lands-green-loan-in-perth-as-asian-market-expands</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mariko Ishikawa]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2019 03:55:56 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Australia Debuts Bonds Tied to Alternative Gauge in Global Trend]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-07/australia-debuts-bonds-tied-to-alternative-gauge-in-global-trend</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2019 06:53:06 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Trade War Is Making a Winner Out of Vietnam’s Offshore Loan Market]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2019 18:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Loans That Can Save the World Finally Gain Ground in Asia]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-03/loans-that-can-help-save-the-world-finally-gain-ground-in-asia</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mariko Ishikawa]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2019 20:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Morrison Keeps Bulk of Election-Winning Team in New Ministry]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-26/morrison-keeps-his-australian-ministry-changes-to-a-minimum</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason Scott]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2019 05:30:52 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Papua New Guinea PM Peter O'Neill Suddenly Resigns]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-26/papua-new-guinea-prime-minister-peter-o-neill-resigns-abc</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Sin]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2019 04:26:47 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Neuberger Berman Shrugs Off Fears Around Junk Bond Market]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-19/neuberger-berman-shrugs-off-fears-around-junk-bond-market</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mariko Ishikawa]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2019 21:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Buildings stand behind a transmission tower at dusk in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday, Aug. 11, 2017. South Korea&apos;s stocks and currency fell after President Donald Trump warned North Korea that if it &quot;does anything&quot; to the U.S. or its allies &quot;things will happen to them like they never thought possible.&quot; Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[AirTrunk Raises S$450 Million to Build Singapore Data Center]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-09/airtrunk-raises-s-450-million-to-build-singapore-data-center</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2019 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Light trails from passing traffic illuminate a road as buildings stand illuminated at dawn in Singapore, on Tuesday, June 12, 2018. President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un expressed optimism that the U.S. and North Korea can find a path toward peace, opening a highly anticipated summit between two adversaries that only last year had seemed on the brink of nuclear war.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Rare Asia Do-Good Loan Flags Growth Prospect for Tiny Market]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-07/rare-do-good-loan-in-asia-flags-chance-of-growth-for-tiny-market</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mariko Ishikawa]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2019 21:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Hideki Yoshida, an electrical engineer at Japan Asia Group Ltd., inspects solar panels at the Kushiro Hoshigaura SolarWay solar photovoltaic power plant operated by Kokusai Kogyo Holdings Co., a unit of Japan Asia Group in Kushiro, Hokkaido, Japan, on Friday, May 10, 2013. Japan is expected to become the largest solar market after China this year, according to estimates by Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Photographer: Yuriko Nakao</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Private Equity Tests Ground for Looser Loans in Australia]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mariko Ishikawa]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2019 20:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Australia Housing Slump Isn't Worrying Mortgage Bond Buyers]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-20/australia-s-housing-slump-isn-t-fazing-mortgage-bond-investors</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mariko Ishikawa]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[China Offshore Syndicated Loan Issuers Expected to Pay Higher Costs]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Carol Zhong]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2019 20:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>The Oriental Pearl Tower, center left, Shanghai World Financial Center, center, and the Shanghai Tower, center right, stand among other buildings in the Lujiazui Financial District along the Pudong riverside in this aerial photograph taken above Shanghai, China, on Monday, April 2, 2018. China&apos;s sprawling local government financing system needs &quot;crucial&quot; reforms to increase consumption, build prosperity and encourage economic rebalancing, the International Monetary Fund said. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[After Record Year, Samurai Loans Get More Love in Asia]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mariko Ishikawa]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2019 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tumultuous Year Raises India Inc Dependence on Foreign Banks]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Anurag Joshi]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2018 21:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A pedestrian is silhouetted as the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) building, center, stands the background in Mumbai, India, on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018. India’s new central bank governor has a list of challenges to face as he takes office: from fixing a banking crisis to convincing investors of the institution’s autonomy. Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg</media:description>
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