East Asia

Power

Myanmar’s scam compounds aren’t being dismantled. They’re moving.

US AI ban just handed Asia a reason to build its own models

China’s AI microdramas are already half the top shows

America’s Southeast Asia problem has a Northeast Asia solution

China’s recovering elephant herds are walking into farmland. Drones see them coming.

The Philippines is building renewable power on Chinese supply chains

Australia can learn from Asia’s 30 years fighting bird flu

India’s green economy is booming. Its coal consumption keeps rising.

East Asia’s biotech autonomy is already making drugs slower and costlier

South Korea’s arms sales to Southeast Asia remain a vendor relationship, not a partnership

Asia’s defense factories are now supplying the West

Southeast Asia is locking itself into Chinese EVs

China just became the world’s oil price setter

One Chinese platform owns Asia’s property deals. Nobody else can copy it.

Gold’s $1,000 bet now rests entirely on the Federal Reserve

Taiwan is paying repeat visitors to recruit their friends

China just locked Central Asia’s uranium and copper supply

Seven tech firms hold a third of the market. The debt underneath just cracked.

Nvidia’s US$5 trillion peak exposed the AI bet’s broken math

China is writing the rulebook for Southeast Asia’s AI data

Asia’s biggest ETFs bled $2.5 billion before the rebound

Seoul arrives first to claim its place in Middle East rebuilding

China’s yuan push hits a wall: control beats convertibility

Australia’s wine bet on Southeast Asia, not just China

Asia is arming Japan to balance China, not fear it

Australian travellers are ditching Europe for cheaper Asian holidays

China’s state-backed 3D printer makers are closing the Western gap

Chinese EV makers just claimed 17.6 percent of Indonesia’s car market

Asia’s housing crisis reveals what governments won’t give up

Asia’s scam economy runs on trafficked workers, not just code

American whiskey exports to Japan collapsed. Now the US is chasing East Asia.

Half of Korean youth watch anime. Crunchyroll is moving in.

Vietnam is ditching backpackers for high-spending tourists

Iran war rewired Asia’s trade. The strait reopening won’t undo it.

Sri Lanka became a scam hub by leaving its doors open

Asian workers hide mental illness. Their employers are starting to pay.

Asia will fuse AI and blockchain before the West even tries

East Asia’s dating apps cannot fix what economics broke

Singapore’s dollar is stretching further. Asia’s energy importers are paying for it.

Asian savers want independence in old age. Cash won’t get them there.

A Seoul data centre fire shows why digital sovereignty through localization fails

Telecom operators are quietly becoming AI infrastructure gatekeepers

Asia sent a record nine teams to the World Cup. The money came first.

Philippines earthquake kills 38, displaces 32,000 as rescuers reach remote areas

Hong Kong is using dogs to keep diners from Shenzhen

Japan is quietly becoming Asia’s third power pole

New Zealand stops trusting America. China and Japan fill the gap.

China just abandoned denuclearization. North Korea noticed.

Hong Kong just bet $1.65 billion on Central Asia. The real trade is zero.

North Korea found a buyer for its war. Sanctions collapsed.

Seoul’s AI boom just erased six months of gains in one day

Full hotels are not profitable hotels in Southeast Asia anymore

Hong Kong is quietly becoming Central Asia’s privatisation banker

A Chinese robotics startup is already beating Western rivals at scale

Japan is arming Southeast Asia with ships tailored to each threat

A $0.20 payment just rewired Asia’s financial infrastructure

China is recruiting Western spies on LinkedIn. Five Eyes has no answer.

Washington just closed the loophole China used for a year

China’s AI center in Beijing is already writing Southeast Asia’s rules

Asia’s defence ministers reject US call for more ships, more summits

Bangkok’s Pride festival is becoming Asia’s queer travel hub

Taiwan’s tourism pivot: fewer visitors, higher spending

Oil surges as missiles split the market in two

Taiwan’s tourism recovery stalls as Chinese visitors stay away

AI is splitting India’s outsourcing industry in two

Australia and Japan offer Pacific islands a third way between superpowers

Blackstone just raised a quarter of Asia’s entire PE market

Filipino pop groups are heading to Western festivals. The industry cannot keep up.

Japan’s banana shortage reveals a hidden energy crisis

China built a $2 trillion megacity. It cannot build the trust inside it.

East Asia’s families are ditching apartments for stock portfolios

A super El Niño is coming to a warmer planet than ever

Japanese and Singaporean capital just bet $750m on Sydney warehouses

Indonesia’s nickel boom is actually Beijing’s supply chain

China’s surveillance city is already inside your devices

Vietnam’s clean-air gamble rests on a struggling state champion

China engineered fake holidays to make people spend money

China’s privacy laws don’t stop its hidden-camera porn trade

Pentagon’s general warns Congress China will be ready for Taiwan by 2027

South Korea’s stock market surges 45% while economy weakens under Middle East pressure

US defense chief softens China rhetoric while urging allies to boost military spending

Tencent’s Penguin Island campus locks engineers inside China’s innovation strategy

Singapore’s world-leading passport masks a 116-destination gap within Southeast Asia

Chinese DRAM maker CXMT captures 8% global market share, entering Western PC supply chains

Pfizer’s $10 billion China biotech deal exposes U.S. policy gap on investment screening

Asia’s financial institutions move from crypto pilots to production infrastructure ahead of the West

Japan permits lethal arms sales to Philippines as defense ties deepen in Tokyo

South Korea’s inactive youth hit six-year high as employers block first-time job seekers

South Korea’s resting youth hit six-year high as firms abandon graduate hiring

Iran restores internet to 53% capacity, signalling flexibility in ceasefire talks with Washington

Trump’s Taiwan arms pause signals US security commitments are now negotiable with Beijing

Computex 2026 opens in Taipei with AI chip announcements shaping enterprise upgrade cycles through 2027

Taiwan warns of Chinese apps collecting sensitive data but lacks legal power to restrict them

Nvidia commits NT$150 billion to Taiwan headquarters, conditioning expansion on grid capacity

Taiwan and South Korea’s chip boom masks dangerous export concentration risk

China’s robotaxi scale outpaces US lead as both face safety reckoning

Quad ministers unite on critical minerals and maritime surveillance as China watches closely

Taiwan’s TECO targets AI data center boom with modular power blocks across Asia and North America

Tokyo’s Hands Shibuya flagship closes after 48 years, signalling shift in prime retail real estate

US arms failures in Taiwan and Japan spark anxiety at Asia security forum