Andrew was recently interviewed by the Singapore – based Business Times on the latest plans to redevelop Sangley Point airport in Cavite province south west of Manila. Back in 2005, he acted as an expert witness in Fraport’s ICSID arbitration against the government re NAIA terminal 3 in central Manila. In 2019, he recommended that […]

UK Chancellor John Healey will deliver his first budget on 28 October. He and his boss, Andy Burnham, may be new but the issues they face are not. How to control government spending when his backbenchers are so reluctant to do so? How to avoid raising taxes when they have rashly maintained their predecessors’ commitment […]

Andrew Zoomed into a panel at this week’s conference in Lima on “Challenges and Disputes in Public Private Partnership Contracts: New Frontiers and Innovation in Dispute Management and Resolution” hosted by the Arbitration Centre of the Lima Chamber of Commerce (CCL) and the World Association of PPP Units & PPP Professionals (WAPPP). He joined Romina […]

Logie Group was out and about in Thailand’s Eastern Economic Corridor this week, looking to invest beyond infrastructure in high – end agriculture (Nam Dok Mai mangos) but mindful of how the government’s long – term plans for the region are changing. Central to those plans were two mutually dependent projects, namely a second runway […]

China Resources raised a cool US$3.61 billion in the recent IPO of its New Energy business and even then, on debut in Shenzhen yesterday, the shares rose as much as 198% – details thanks to Nikkei here. It’s a reminder of what I said in Singapore last month, namely that every host government looking to […]

Deserved congrats to Singapore Inc for this week’s trifecta of conferences namely Infrastructure Asia’s biennial forum, the World Cities Summit and The Asset’s 11th Sustainable Infrastructure Finance Summit, all of which led – not just hosted – the necessary conversations about how to finance the region’s enormous needs on a sustainable basis. Behind the style, […]

Andrew joined several hundreds of his closest friends at this year’s annual conference. The Gulf may be at war with supplies of oil, gas, fertilisers, sulphur, helium (I could go on), not to mention inbound food, all under threat; tech bro’s are looking for unprecedented sums of equity to chase unprecedented risk; and world demographics […]

When Deng Xiaoping visited on his southern tour in 1992, Shenzhen was little more than a collection of villages to be gazed at from over the border at Robin’s Nest or Lok Ma Chau.  This week, I joined AustCham and the CAANZ to visit BYD and GBI, two examples of how companies based there have, […]

Shooting in the Gulf or for the Moon may currently be more exciting but the age – old problem of what to do with the World’s unbelievable amounts of rubbish is still with us. Kudos, then, to the World Bank for What A Waste 3.0, its latest “global snapshot of solid waste management towards circularity […]

The World’s attention this week may be 12,500 km to the north – east but the dispute over the Panama canal has not gone away. Few infrastructure projects can match it for cost – perhaps 25,000 died when the French tried to build it before the US completed the job in 1914; or for value […]

The Milano Cortina d’Ampezzo Winter Olympics are upon us and behind the wonder – how does Ilia Malinin do that? – and the drama – as I write, Lindsey Vonn has just been airlifted out of a women’s downhill for the second time in nine days – is the equally unfathomable question – are the […]

On 10 October, Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto issued Peraturan Presidena 109, a decree on how to go about “the Urban Waste Management through Environmentally Friendly Technology – Based Conversion of Waste into Renewable Energy” (PerPres 109 / 2025). Indonesia is hardly alone in generating a whole lot of rubbish in that it disposes of the […]

It’s a question that is unlikely to pop up in your local pub quiz: what do Tammy Wynette and Miguel de Cervantes have in common? Especially as the answer lies in Vietnam. Tammy, of course. advised ladies to Stand by their Man back in 1968 (before 68% of today’s potential listeners were even born). Even […]

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi was in HK last Friday to preside over the signing of a UN convention to establish the International Organisation for Mediation. 32 other countries, which were mostly already on board with the Belt & Road Initiative, signed too whilst more than 50 countries and “nearly 20” international organisations including the […]

Forty years ago today, HK’s MTR opened its Island line, twelve stations originally running from Admiralty east through Wan Chai (“Admiralty East”) to Chai Wan (“tea village” so not the reverse of Wan Chai “small bay”). Although not the first – fifteen stations on what are now parts of the Tsuen Wan and Kwun Tong […]