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China Conference: Southeast Asia

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China Conference: Southeast Asia
Insights and takeaways from China Conference: Southeast Asia, an annual flagship conference organised by the South China Morning Post. The hybrid 2023 edition, on March 29 and 30 at the Four Seasons Singapore and online, will see keynote speeches from Singapore's Home Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam, Hong Kong Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po, Malaysia's Minister of International Trade & Industry Tengku Zafrul Aziz, China’s ambassador to Singapore Sun Haiyan, and more.
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9 September, 2024
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A Chinese fleet accompanies its aircraft carrier the Liaoning in the South China Sea. Photo: AP
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Asia’s youngest cabinet minister, Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman of Malaysia. Photo: K.Y. Cheng

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[from left] South China Morning Post’s Senior Reporter Dewey Sim moderated a panel discussion, Investing for generations: the rise of family offices in Asia at China Conference: Southeast Asia 2023 on March 30, 2023 in Singapore. Panellists included Agnes Chen, Managing Director of APAC Region for Fund Services, CSC; Chi-man Kwan, Group Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Raffles Family Office and Lawrence Lok, Chief Financial Officer of Hywin Holdings.
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Hong Kong Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po speaks on the second day of SCMP’s China Conference: Southeast Asia on March 30, 2023, in Singapore. Photo: Handout
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Hong Kong Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po meets Singapore’s Home Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam at the sidelines of SCMP’s China Conference: Southeast Asia 2023. Photo: Handout
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Digital currencies

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Eugene Tang, Business Editor SCMP; Oluchi Ikechi-D’Amico, strategy and transactions partner at EY Parthenon; Kai Wu, group chief revenue officer and general manager for APAC at Airwallex and Shayan Hazir - chief digital officer for Southeast Asia at HSBC, at the China Conference: Southeast Asia, in Singapore, on Wednesday. Photo: SCMP
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Malaysian Minister of International Trade and Industry Tengku Zafrul Aziz at SCMP’s China Conference: Southeast Asia 2023, on March 29, 2023, in Singapore. Photo: Handout
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Paul Chan Mo-po, Financial Secretary of Hong Kong will give a keynote address at this year’s China Conference: Southeast Asia in Singapore. File photo: Elson Li
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(left to right): Moderator Chua Kong-ho, the Post’s technology editor; Khailee Ng, 500 Startups managing partner; Joe Tsai, Alibaba Group executive vice-chairman and the Post’s chairman; Ming Maa, Grab president; and Thomas Tsao, Gobi Partners founding partner, at the China in Southeast Asia forum (China Conference) on Wednesday in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Photo: K.Y. Cheng
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