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Deals

Insurance Australia to sell Thai, Indonesia units to Tokio Marine for $389.7m

India Dealbook: Danlaw buys Titan unit; Elucidata raises $1.7m seed funding

SG Dealbook: Allied Tech raises $18.6m; Gloria Mansion on sale for $58m

SG Digest:Tribe Theory enters Indonesia, India; Gordian Capital opens Shanghai office

Private Equity

India: Sesa Hair Oil in talks to raise up to $60m from True North

ADM Capital co-leads $520m refinancing for Kuwaiti Aston Martin backer

Piramal Capital offers $30m structured equity to Appaswamy Group for land deals

Record PE vehicles make fundraising challenging for smaller managers: Chris Leahy, Blackpeak

Venture Capital

Singapore’s GIC, Sequoia China invest $40m in Korean fintech startup Viva Republica

Co-work space operator IndiQube raises $15m Series A led by WestBridge Capital

Thai-focused micro-fund 500 TukTuks to raise $20m for second vehicle

China Digest: Ono gets $16m in Series A; Xiaohuanggou secures $163m

AECS Thailand invests in Singapore-based healthcare startup GetDoc

SAARC Fund to back 80 social enterprises in 8 member nations

Paytm buys Flipkart-backed Cube26, aims to boost customer experience

India Dealbook: MobiKwik backs Pivotchain; Cashify in pact with China’s AiHuiShou

Post-IPO goal, Mercari looks at being the first Japanese startup to make it in US

Entrepreneurs in North Korea? Not as rare as you would think

IPOs & Markets

Singapore’s Sea raises $575m in convertible notes on back of strong demand

Vectus Industries files draft IPO with Sebi; PE investor Creador to exit

S Korean’s cinema chain CJ CGV plans IPO for Vietnamese unit

China’s Xiaomi trims pre-IPO valuation more than 30% to $55-$70b range

Mobile & Telco

Airtel’s Kenyan unit abandons plan to merge with Telkom

Military-backed Mytel becomes fourth telecom operator to launch services in Myanmar

India’s RCom plans $2.68b asset sale to Jio, Brookfield in next few weeks

Vietnam’s Viettel, partners to launch Myanmar’s first 4G network

Real Estate

Japanese Sumitomo-BRG Group JV to invest $1b for Hanoi smart city project

SGX-listed Ho Bee Land acquires London office asset for $861m

Singapore’s Ascendas Hospitality Trust acquires three hotels in Japan for $93m

Real estate investment manager AEW closes $1.12b third APAC fund

Paytm buys Flipkart-backed Cube26, aims to boost customer experience

Chinese internet giant Alibaba deepens Malaysia presence with office in KL

Grab closes $370m debt facility deal for vehicle fleet financing

Vietnam: ComfortDelgro Savico Taxi, Vinataxi merge to take on Grab

Uber says there will be no let-up in India investments

Ride-sharing giant Didi picks Australia for first Western-style market foray

Q & A

Excited about permeation of artificial intelligence in SE Asia: Rina Lee, 33 Talent

Central Capital's Suteja bats for co-investment, collaboration among Indonesian bank VCs

India govt does not have fiscal space to spend too much: Sonal Varma, Nomura

Media and content will be the next big thing in Indonesia, says Stellar Kapital's Santoso

Grab Ventures will invest in the next generation of tech leaders: Grab CEO Anthony Tan

Opinion

Guest Post | How much is Grab worth, really?

China phone giant Xiaomi may be twice as expensive as Apple

Guest Post | Why JD.com and Thailand's Central might not succeed as partners

If not Flipkart, Amazon India's losses should trigger a warning at Walmart

Guest post: The rise of the new (and larger) seed round

People

Uber names Pradeep Parameswaran as its new India, South Asia head

Matt Whineray appointed as NZ Super Fund CEO

India: Snapdeal, Housing.com's turnaround man Jason Kothari joins Infibeam as president

SoftBank without Son in future is on minds of yen bond investors

UPDATE: Malaysia's Cradle Fund CEO Nazrin Hassan dies of blast injuries

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