The pandemic hammered South-east Asian stock markets last year, with the Straits Times Index (STI) taking the biggest hit in region.
The local bourse ended the year down nearly 12 per cent, a victim, like its regional peers, of the greater reliance on trade, travel and tourism – sectors that were all under siege as countries went into lockdowns.
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