<div id="market-watch-auto"><span style="display: none; font-size: 1px; color: #ffffff; background-color: #ffffff; height: 1px;">Asia Daily: Top headlines impacting Asian markets</span> <!-- [if mso]> <style type="text/css"> body, table, td {font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important !important;} </style> <div class="table-convert" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="640" border="0" align="center" style="max-width:640px;border-collapse:collapse;border-color:#f0f0f0;" > <![endif]--> <!-- [if !mso]> <!----> <div class="table-convert" align="center"><!-- <![endif]--> <div class="tbody-convert"> <div class="row-convert"> <div class="col-convert"> <div class="table-convert" align="center"> <div class="tbody-convert"> <div class="row-convert"> <div class="col-convert"> <div class="table-convert" align="center"> <div class="tbody-convert"> <div class="row-convert"> <div class="col-convert" style="margin-bottom: 20px; color: #ffffff; background-color: #2e2e2f; padding: 20px;"> <div class="table-convert" align="center"> <div class="tbody-convert"> <div class="row-convert"> <div class="col-convert"> <div class="table-convert" align="center"> <div class="tbody-convert"> <div class="row-convert"> <div class="col-convert" style="padding-bottom: 8px;"><a style="color: #6a6a6c; 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