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South Korea deploys task force to dodge Indonesia’s October halal deadline

Seoul’s chip stocks now dictate global AI portfolio moves daily

Australia’s biosimilar gap could close if the government acts now

US chip controls turned Japan into Nvidia’s showcase. China is closing the gap.

China’s helium ban just squeezed the world’s chip fabs

South Korea’s free AI for everyone runs on American chips it cannot replace

Vietnam’s $76 baby bonus won’t reverse its fertility collapse

Gong Yoo’s Asian tour is a masterclass in nostalgia monetisation

Asia’s smartest money is betting against AI stocks

Asia’s workers are demanding wages that governments won’t pay

Asian chip stocks ignore oil surge as SK Hynix listing drowns out Hormuz risk

SK Hynix’s Nasdaq debut tests whether Korean tech can escape the won’s collapse

Japan’s bond yield hits 27-year high as Gulf tensions push rates up

Iran sanctions push Bitcoin below $61,500, erasing $310M in leveraged bets

America’s rare earth billions are feeding Asia’s magnet factories

Asia’s venture chiefs just made a bet on regional AI dominance

India’s AI boom is pricing itself out of the low-cost game

Samsung’s record profits couldn’t save its stock from an AI reckoning

South Korea is building the world’s largest AI data center

Vietnam’s hospitals debut in Asia rankings built on reputation, not outcomes

America’s Southeast Asia problem has a Northeast Asia solution

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

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

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

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

Seoul arrives first to claim its place in Middle East rebuilding

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

China just abandoned denuclearization. North Korea noticed.

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

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

Washington just closed the loophole China used for a year

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

Taiwan’s tourism pivot: fewer visitors, higher spending

Taiwan’s tourism recovery stalls as Chinese visitors stay away

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

East Asia’s families are ditching apartments for stock portfolios

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

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

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

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

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

South Korea faces $667 million daily loss from Samsung chip strike threat

Rosewood Hotels institutes 16-week parental leave as Asia grapples with crashing birth rates

Hormuz blockade drives Japan, South Korea naphtha prices to record highs, threatening plastics supply

South Korea’s Middle East crude imports fall 37% as US supply nears parity

Wan Hai Lines raises Asia freight rates by up to $200 per container, citing Red Sea costs

Hormuz crisis forces South Asian nations to reverse decarbonisation, risking higher emissions

South Korean airlines face margin crisis as fuel surcharges double on key routes

South Korea extends K-ETA visa waiver for Australians and Kiwis — until December 31, 2026