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week old baby boy has been charged with his murder. Katarzyna Gacek, | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
who's 24 and from Oldham, was arrested after her son Thomas died | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
of serious head injuries last Monday. Now on BBC News all the | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
latest business news live from Singapore. The Thailand elections | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
disrupted by protesters leaving millions unable to vote. Will this | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
cast the country into political limbo? As millions of people | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
celebrate Chinese New year we look at and best predictions for the year | :00:27. | :00:34. | |
of the course. -- investment predictions. The tech -- we kick off | :00:35. | :00:42. | |
Thailand which held elections on Sunday. Despite the boycott from the | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
Opposition party, the electoral commission could tally the results | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
after anti-government protesters forced dozens of polling stations to | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
shut down, affecting half a million voters. We spoke to an expert and | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
asked if we could see an evolution to this three-month long conflict? | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
Coming out of yesterday, the good part there was no violence. We are | :01:09. | :01:15. | |
not looking at a military coup. What the Opposition is hoping for is a | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
judicial coup. They hope either the Constitutional Court comes in | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
through the election commission and declares the vote invalid or the | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
corruption commission proceeds with corruption allegation against the | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
Prime Minister and other Thai politicians. With those two options | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
you have put on the table, how will investors perceive this? They will | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
seek it as gridlock and a slow down for a while. The best opposition | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
they have now is that it is awaiting game. In three or six months, they | :01:50. | :01:58. | |
hope protest fatigue sets in. As the fatigue sets in, as the next | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
by-elections to fill the previous seats that could not vote, that is | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
the best friend of the government. With more political gridlock will | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
investors remain on the sidelines or will they see this in as an | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
opportunity to come in and look into the Thai economy and investment | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
opportunities over a more longer period of time? There is a milestone | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
they need to see within the next two weeks. If the corruption commission | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
comes in the next two weeks and says they will prosecute union | :02:36. | :02:37. | |
specifically over corruption issues, think things get worse for a little | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
while. More uncertainty sets in. We need to wait for that milestone | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
first before major action either positive or negative happens for | :02:47. | :02:55. | |
investors in tidal and. The Indian airlines sector has seen a jump in | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
bookings after slashing fares for domestic travel. The fairs cup a | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
time when many of the domestic airlines are running at massive | :03:03. | :03:10. | |
losses. -- domestic airlines. Gearing up for a holiday, this woman | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
is searching for hotels in -goer where she will be flying for a long | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
weekend with a friend in March. Last week she had no answer going a short | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
break. Then she saw that airlines were selling tickets at a huge | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
discount and she could not resist. The Flash sale is the reason I am | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
going away. I would love to go every weekend. If you take a train or bus | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
you waste a lot of time travelling. You have two plan and make your | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
booking is because those tickets have become very expensive now. | :03:47. | :03:54. | |
Thousands of ticket -- Travelers booked ticket recently. Online | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
travel portals is a bookings on some routes trebled during the same | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
period. But can Indian airlines afford to offer tickets at such low | :04:06. | :04:13. | |
prices? In 2013, the compliance loss of all domestic Indian airlines was | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
$4 billion. Why are they offering such huge discounts of a not making | :04:18. | :04:25. | |
profits? Every year between January and March school and university down | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
season. That means more people fly within the country. By offering | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
cheaper tickets, airlines hope they can tempt passengers and Phil Waugh | :04:36. | :04:37. | |
aircraft seats than they normally would. And he already has five | :04:38. | :04:45. | |
national domestic carriers. The Asia and Singapore airlines are also | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
planning to start flights within India this year. But the traffic has | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
been growing at a modest place every year. Most Indian airlines are | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
struggling to get money because of lower fares and higher taxes and | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
operational costs. Globally, aviation has been a notoriously | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
difficult industry to make money and squeezing every dollar out of | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
passengers helps the chances of a carrier. But the recent ticket sale | :05:13. | :05:20. | |
and the arrival of new airlines and the market means India will note | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
doubt see more airfare battles in 2014. Markets in China and Hong Kong | :05:25. | :05:33. | |
remain shut for the lunar New year celebrations. It is year the force. | :05:34. | :05:45. | |
It is a popular tradition -- it is a popular ritual to get your fortune | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
told. -- course. We talked about the thing Shui index which predict | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
investment trends for the year. This year it is the year of the horse. It | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
has a strong presence of fire. This year with the market going pretty | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
strong. We will see markets go galloping higher? Especially for the | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
first half. The second half will be a little bit galloping, little bit | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
of volatility. Which particular companies will do well in the year | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
of the horse? Sectors like wood and fire sectors. Companies in fashion, | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
retail software model to as well as Internet technology and telco | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
companies. Which particular companies will underperform? From | :06:37. | :06:48. | |
the Feng shui perspective, companies for property, construction and | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
resources will be more cautious. Your report predicts that the | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
Japanese Prime Minister will not only turn on the nuclear power | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
stations but he will confirm reports the nation is pursuing nuclear | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
weapons. How the jaw Feng shui index arrived at this prediction? Remember | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
the Feng shui index is quite lighted predictions. The Japanese Prime | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
Minister is a workhorse. We predict he will have a challenging year. At | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
the same time, the year of the course is a year of fire. They will | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
first drive the market but fire, combined with the yang metal could | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
indicate a new form of energy. We are also looking forward to nuclear | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
but from a geopolitical position, we are not advocating he do any of | :07:44. | :07:52. | |
this. Another common sight during the Chinese New year, lion dance | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
groups which are believed to bless businesses with good fortune. A busy | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
season for them with many companies wishing to pay as much as $4000 for | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
their services. We caught up with a popular dance group in Malaysia. The | :08:07. | :08:15. | |
Chinese lion dance rings good fortune to businesses. Over the | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
years, they have perfected it into a craft. This is one of the top lion | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
dance troupes in the country and they are going to do some incredible | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
acrobatics with two lines. Sitting next to me is one of the lion heads. | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
You can see his pants. These are the legs of the lion. A lot of people | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
are very excited and they are drawn to them all to watch this | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
performance. You excited to see the Lions? By? The line dance is | :08:45. | :08:53. | |
amazing. I hope they will bring me good luck. Cost of living is going | :08:54. | :09:02. | |
up, Chinese New year is like Christmas, a lot of people spend | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
money, have you held back on your spending? Somewhat. This year I | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
spent less than previous years. It is more towards, how do you put it, | :09:15. | :09:23. | |
family not spending money. How much less are you spending? I have cut | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
about 50%. Have businesses held back on hiring lion dancers? Yes. Because | :09:31. | :09:41. | |
they are cutting the Budget. They review things like that. This | :09:42. | :09:50. | |
particular performance lasted for 15 minutes and cost over $1000. If that | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
sounds like a lot of money, consider how the people they attract it to | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
the maul to watch this particular performance. This is also seen as a | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
blessing for businesses in the shopping maul. For this year when | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
people are cutting back on spending, businesses want as much luck and | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
fortune as they can get. It was Jennifer in Malaysia. A quick look | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
at the markets, Asian stocks are struggling in mid-morning trade | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
after a report released after the weekend showed Chinese factory | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
growth fell to a six-month low in January. With investors watching for | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
slow economic data. | :10:31. | :10:35. |