Singapore
The region’s financial and logistics chokepoint, with regulatory influence and capital flows well out of proportion to its size.
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Sep- 2026 -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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Aug- 2026 -29 AugustCapital
SBI pays $270M to make Indonesia Ajaib’s yen stablecoin gateway
Japan's largest financial conglomerate acquires a 20% stake in Indonesia's 20-million-user investment platform, deploying its regulated yen stablecoin beyond Japan for the first time and signaling structural confidence in a…
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29 AugustTech & AI
Indonesia’s new fiber grid is half-owned by its biggest rival
RAIA Grid launched 86,000 kilometers of wholesale backbone on August 26, but Indosat retains 49.7 percent while running a competing network, and control rests with the president's brother—a governance structure…
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27 AugustTech & AI
U.S. freight forwarder faces first enforcement for smuggling AI chips to China
Apex Logistics, a Singapore unit of Kuehne+Nagel, is under investigation for 47 shipments of Nvidia servers, while Taiwan indicted nine people for diverting 130 B300 chips through falsified documents.
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23 AugustTech & AI
Singapore’s first hydrogen data centre just got $415 million to prove it works
DayOne's 20-megawatt facility will pilot a 0.3-megawatt solid oxide fuel cell system, testing whether hydrogen can power dense urban data infrastructure within the city-state's tight grid constraints.
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22 AugustPower
Southeast Asia faces binary choice as US and China weaponise AI blocs
A draft State Department letter warns 35 countries that joining China's WAICO while participating in Pax Silica will jeopardise access to advanced AI infrastructure, ending decades of diplomatic hedging.
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17 AugustTech & AI
Singapore’s first wetware rack runs on neurons that expire in six months
A 20-unit biological computer using 16 million lab-grown human neurons draws just 850–1,000 watts, but replacement demands sterile labs and trained cell biologists every half-year.
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12 AugustTech & AI
China just unwound Meta’s $2 billion AI deal after it closed
The NDRC ordered Manus to reverse its acquisition on August 11, establishing Beijing's power to retroactively unwind cross-border tech deals regardless of offshore incorporation—a capability foreign acquirers assumed did not…
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11 AugustEarth
Indonesia’s fires are spreading. Cloud seeding cannot stop them.
A Super El Niño and positive Indian Ocean Dipole have stripped the atmosphere of rain-bearing clouds, leaving only water-bombing crews to fight 107,000 hectares already burned across 10 provinces as…
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9 AugustSociety
Singapore’s government bets on cheaper care to keep families working
PM Wong announced a major review of family support spanning all life stages, arriving as Singapore becomes super-aged this year and households face competing pressures from childcare and elder care.
