Asian Financial Crisis

Investors should focus on this taxi company to mark the anniversary.

Eka Tjipta Widjaja became a coconut and palm-oil trader at the age of 15 before building a multi-billion dollar empire.

(July 24): Twenty years ago, Steven Koh was working at the Jakarta office of BDNI Securities, part of the Gajah Tunggal group. Among the projects on his plate was the public listing of five companies, including a prawn farm that was being valued at some U

(July 5): Three stock markets have never returned to the peaks they achieved in the years before the Asian financial crisis triggered a region-wide sell-off two decades ago.

SINGAPORE (May 15): Anna Vanessa Haotanto became a selfmade millionaire at 29, an age when many people are still climbing the corporate ladder. She achieved this mainly by making smart investments and saving prudently.

SINGAPORE (April 10): Twenty years after the Asian financial crisis and a decade since the global credit crunch, the region is swimming in debt.

SINGAPORE (March 6): Last May, a 128-gigabyte Apple iPhone 6s Plus in Malaysia cost RM3,699. At the exchange rate of SGD1:RM2.85 then, that would have been around $1,298 –about the same as the retail price in Singapore.