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Southeast Asia’s digital economy has shown resilience amid the Covid-19 pandemic. All this growth speaks to a healthy, thriving deals landscape, from seed stage to unicorn, SPAC/IPO and beyond. Craig Dixon, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Accelerating Asia shares more about the opportunities and scope for startups in SEA's digital economy and if its the right time for investors to put their money into early stage startups in the region. 

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In this morning's The Breakfast Brief, we discuss China Evergrande Group's tearing down of apartment blocks in a development in Hainan province, OPEC's regular monthly meeting to decide how to proceed with unwinding the production cuts for February, and more. 

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From China’s latest political win against Taiwan to their decision to scrap subsidies for electric cars and the Covid-19 outbreak situation in Xi’an, Tan Dawn Wei, China Bureau Chief, The Straits Times gives an analysis of it all.

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Synopsis: The Straits Times analyses the latest developments in the United States in this weekly podcast. 

The Straits Times' US bureau chief Nirmal Ghosh chats with Money FM 89.3's Elliot Danker and Bharati Jagdish about the following points:

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00:55 New York City leading surge in Covid cases among cities on the US east coast

02:55 Investigation into Jan 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol, and if there is evidence to show culpability of former US President Donald Trump

05:40 The 2022 edition of the biennial Rim of the Pacific (Rimpac) exercise organised by the US Navy, and the political signals due to Taiwan's expected invitation

07:15 US authorities asking telecom operators to delay an already postponed rollout of 5G networks, due to potential flight safety equipment interference

Produced by: Nirmal Ghosh ([email protected]), The Breakfast Huddle, Money FM 89.3, Ernest Luis & Fa'izah Sani

Edited by: Dan Koh

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Abhilash Narayan, Senior Investment Strategist, Standard Chartered Private Bank, discusses what Singapore's economic outlook will mean for stock markets, as well as other major issues for investors to watch in 2022.

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