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Mercedes Ruehl

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Mercedes Ruehl is the Financial Times' Singapore correspondent. 

She was the Asia Technology correspondent based in Singapore, and previously led the FT's newsletters and audience engagement team in Asia. Prior to that she spent six years reporting in Australia on business, finance and politics for The Australian Financial Review and The Sydney Morning Herald.

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  • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
    Adani Group
    Adani sell-off tops $90bn as share sale fails to ease crisis

    Indian billionaire called on some of the country’s top tycoons to help salvage share sale

  • Tuesday, 31 January, 2023
    Global Economy
    IMF raises growth forecasts as China reopens and gas prices fall

    UK is now only leading economy expected to contract following upgrades

  • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
    Philippines
    Philippines records strongest economic growth in more than 40 years

    Lifting of pandemic restrictions buoys south-east Asian country that is set to enjoy China ‘boon’

  • Sunday, 15 January, 2023
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    The lure of Singapore: Chinese flock to ‘Asia’s Switzerland’

    Geopolitical tension has increased the city-state’s attraction as a financial outpost and safe haven. But can it maintain its neutrality?

  • Friday, 13 January, 2023
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    Group that splashed out on LA stadium naming rights during crypto bull run hit by ‘unforeseeable’ events

  • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
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    Indonesia's secret to economic success

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  • Tuesday, 10 January, 2023
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    Dual initial public offering expected to raise as much as $1bn as interest grows in food security investment

  • Sunday, 8 January, 2023
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    Alphabet’s Verily seeks to eradicate dengue in Singapore

    Bid to extend tech throughout city state to wipe out disease-carrying mosquito population

  • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
    Art in South-east Asia
    Gallerist Richard Koh: ‘Younger buyers are coming in — the idea of collecting is different’

    He has seen Singapore evolve into a livelier art centre through the pandemic, even if there are still limits to what you can say

  • Tuesday, 20 December, 2022
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    India overtakes China in M&A fees for western banks for first time

    Wall St bankers pivot as Chinese companies turn to local advisers and Covid restrictions weigh on demand

  • Sunday, 18 December, 2022
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    US faces lab monkey shortage amid Cambodia smuggling scandal

    Scientists call for more domestic breeding programmes to meet demand for test animals to life sciences sector

  • Monday, 12 December, 2022
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    Balancing act of Indonesia’s morality law upsets activists and Islamists

    Ban on sex outside marriage disturbs rights advocates while angering conservative groups

  • Monday, 12 December, 2022
    Chinese business & finance
    Booming Chinese family offices recruit top bankers in Singapore

    Financial institutions expect to lose ‘whole teams’ to private funds that will increasingly resemble hedge funds

  • Friday, 9 December, 2022
    Cryptocurrencies
    Temasek-backed crypto shop Amber halts expansion plans in rocky market

    Group says it has secured half of planned $100mn fundraising round

  • Tuesday, 6 December, 2022
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    Indonesia to ban insults against president under new criminal code

    Parliament approves changes that also outlaw sex outside marriage

  • Tuesday, 6 December, 2022
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    FTX’s ignominious collapse leaves a sector searching for justification

  • Friday, 2 December, 2022
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    Indonesian NGOs launch legal action as dispute over orang-utan numbers escalates

    Spat between researchers and government intensifies into wider rebellion against curbs on academic freedom

  • Friday, 2 December, 2022
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    India’s cut-throat aviation sector prepares for consolidation

    Merger of former national carrier Air India with Vistara will shake up fast-growing industry

  • Wednesday, 30 November, 2022
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    Singapore’s Temasek opens review into ill-fated FTX investment

    State-owned investment fund had written off $275mn holdings in Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto group

  • Wednesday, 30 November, 2022
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    Chinese companies set up in Singapore to hedge against geopolitical risk

    More businesses are ‘Singapore-washing’ as US-China relations deteriorate

  • Thursday, 24 November, 2022
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    Anwar Ibrahim sworn in as Malaysia’s prime minister

    King moves to end post-election chaos by appointing reformist one-time protégé of Mahathir Mohamad

  • Sunday, 20 November, 2022
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    Malaysian elections produce country’s first hung parliament

    Rival leaders rush to secure majority while ex-PM Mahathir faces end to long political career

  • Friday, 18 November, 2022
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    Economic hardship from Ukraine invasion helped sway the developing world to isolate Moscow

  • Thursday, 17 November, 2022
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    Loss comes as bankrupt crypto exchange distances itself from founder Sam Bankman-Fried

  • Tuesday, 15 November, 2022
    Chinese trade
    Australia prime minister seeks end to China’s trade sanctions

    Anthony Albanese says Bali meeting with Xi Jinping a step toward stabilising ties

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