East Asia
The world’s most advanced economies and its most contested flashpoint sit side by side here. Technology leadership, demographic decline, and a strait that could redraw the global order — all in the same neighborhood.
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Sep- 2026 -8 SeptemberTech & AI
Samsung and SK Hynix hold less than 10 days of DRAM stock
HBM4 production consumes three times the wafer capacity of standard DRAM, pushing global DRAM revenue up 59.5% to $154.73 billion in Q2 while supply cannot respond for years.
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7 SeptemberEarth
Taiwan’s wettest month since 1931 arrives before the next storm
Kaohsiung recorded 1,712 millimeters of rain in August—93 percent of its annual average—while a tropical system approaches, leaving southern counties in a compound flood-and-landslide risk window.
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6 SeptemberScience
China’s telescope found starless clouds that shouldn’t exist
Two hydrogen clouds near the Whirlpool galaxy show no stars despite holding 3 million solar masses each, matching predictions for a theoretical dark-matter halo class—if they aren't just debris from…
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6 SeptemberScience
Hong Kong’s first astronaut will teach from orbit. Beijing is watching.
Lai Ka-ying, a 43-year-old former police superintendent, will broadcast live experiments from Tiangong to Hong Kong and Macau classrooms, signaling Beijing's strategy to anchor the city's youth in China's space…
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5 SeptemberScience
Deep learning found six hidden zones inside Earth’s core
Chinese researchers scanned two million seismic records and identified 174,929 faint signals near the core-mantle boundary, ten times larger than all previous catalogues combined.
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5 SeptemberPower
Taiwan’s drone budget stalls as legislature blocks its own defense plan
A record NT$63.4 billion in drone funding survived a 266-day budget delay, but the NT$210 billion special appropriation needed to build 200,000 unmanned systems remains blocked by opposition lawmakers wary…
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2 SeptemberSociety
Cambodia’s scam crackdown pushed the networks across Southeast Asia
The UN estimates $88–114 billion in annual losses across the region, yet analysts say the 12,000 Indonesian workers fleeing Cambodian compounds in 2026 signal relocation, not elimination.
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2 SeptemberPower
Indonesia hosts record military drills while building a weapons factory with China
Super Garuda Shield 2026 opened August 31 with 21 countries as Jakarta pursues parallel defense tracks with Washington and Beijing under its doctrine of non-alignment.
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1 SeptemberTech & AI
South Korea bets $600 billion on a chip boom that may not last
Seoul's record 2027 budget assumes corporate tax receipts will more than double to 216.7 trillion won, driven by semiconductor windfall—a wager that hinges on AI memory demand sustaining through 2027.
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Aug- 2026 -31 AugustEarth
Nepal delayed foreign rescue teams as survival window closed
The government reversed its position on August 29, two days after the glacial flood killed nearly 800, requesting specialist tunnel rescue and DNA forensic help as diplomatic pressure from countries…
