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Standard & Poor's: ASEAN's banking integration faces a long road to go (2-end)

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - Banks in ASEAN are mostly small by global standards and don't have the scale and footprint to compete effectively with global behemoths. He said that the fragmented banking systems in some countries, such as Philippines, Indonesia, and Vietnam, have a large number of small financial institutions with weaker financial profiles than their global peers. These systems...

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Batan: Australia and France eye Mamuju uranium deposit

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, MAMUJU - The National Nuclear Energy Agency (BATAN) said Australia and France have indicated interest in the Mamuju uranium deposit in West Sulawesi. The two countries have approached BATAN since it was known that Mamuju has uranium deposit, BATAN chief Prof Dr Djarot Sulistio Wisnubroto said  on Thursday. In fact many countries were interested in the country's uranium deposits...