Investing in Asia is a little different than in the west.

When we start investing, we would usually pick up some of the books highly recommended for novice investors to get started.

This can be The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham, Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits by Philip Fisher.

These are great books, and both introduce you to the basics of securities analysis, the importance of investing based on value and how to uncover growth.

Asia is still predominately an emerging markets. Their stock market is still developing. Business practices, transparency and governance is more lacking.

As such, some of the things we assume to be less of a problem is a huge issue when investing in Asia.

So how do we marry these fundamental concepts in our Asia context?

My friends Stanley and Mun Hong have written a book called Value Investing in Asia. Stanley and Mun Hong, together ...