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The bank hires Louis Kuijs as chief China economist and Enrico Tanuwidjaja as Southeast Asia economist.

Su Sian Lim joins the RBS exodus and takes up the Asean economist role at HSBC global research.

A former senior economist at the World Bank in Beijing, Kuijs will provide clients with insights into macroeconomic developments and key policy actions in the Asia-Pacific region.

Ha Jiming will join the investment banking division at Goldman Sachs in October.

Kit Wei Zheng joins from the Monetary Authority of Singapore to oversee economic analysis for the two countries.

The upside is that slowing growth may enable multinationals to make major inroads in China.

Andrew Freris refutes US and European claims that Asia is exporting deflation to the world.

China''s version of deflation explains her export boom, rather than an unfairly cheap currency, says independent economist Chi Lo.

Andrew Freris reiterates view that Asian economies are most affected by what is happening within the region.