Hi-tech leads restructuring and after

Asia’s equity markets have seen their fair share of triumphs and disasters in the past 12 months, with technology stocks still baffling market watchers in some markets and seducing them in others.

The company that everyone is still talking about is Richard Li’s Hong Kong’s Pacific Century Cyber Works. “PCCW has actually helped the economy of Hong Kong. A lot of people made a lot of money and that went back into the system and kick-started the Asian recovery,” says Darius Yen, director of equity capital markets at BNP Prime Peregrine Securities.

       
Li’s PCCW is helping the Asian recovery

Certainly PCCW got the year off to a good start with a $1 billion IPO lead-managed by BNP Paribas that gave it ammunition to buy Hong Kong Telecom.

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