Singapore

Compass

Bandung airport opens to jets. Singapore gets a direct line in.

Asia-Pacific will train half the world’s new pilots by 2045

Singapore’s property boom rests on two mega-deals worth S$6.4 billion

Sea Group is quietly building its own data centers across Southeast Asia

A Texas freighter startup just bet big on China’s cargo boom

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

Nvidia just cut half its Asian customers off the GPU list

Southeast Asia is building nuclear reactors for AI data centres

Vietnam’s new data law bans exports, defying its own trade deal

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

Grab became Malaysia’s economy. Regulators still have no rules for it.

Asia’s smartest money is betting against AI stocks

Singapore is forcing construction robots before contractors can afford them

Australia, US and Japan test a new kind of military interchangeability

Asia’s best founders are already in San Francisco

Asia’s luxury longevity clinics are selling what science hasn’t proven yet

Singapore is quietly building Asia’s risk management infrastructure

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

American pilot killed in Papua. Washington now has leverage.

A Singapore AI expert just left banking for consulting. That’s the real story.

Microsoft’s new undersea cable bets India’s AI future on Southeast Asia

Google and Meta are rewiring Asia’s internet to avoid China

Asian brokers stopped chasing big deposits. Activity is the new scorecard.

America’s Southeast Asia problem has a Northeast Asia solution

Singapore is betting US$500 million to unlock Asia’s green capital

Lazada cuts staff again. Better process changed nothing.

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

Franklin Templeton just put $1.6 trillion on a blockchain

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

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

Vietnam is ditching backpackers for high-spending tourists

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

Washington just showed Asia who controls frontier AI

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.

Asian households are turning to unregulated AI for money advice

Full hotels are not profitable hotels in Southeast Asia anymore

A Chinese robotics startup is already beating Western rivals at scale

Singapore built an AI coach for the small businesses that need it most

A $0.20 payment just rewired Asia’s financial infrastructure

Washington just closed the loophole China used for a year

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

AI is splitting India’s outsourcing industry in two

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

Southeast Asia faces its worst haze risk since 2015 this summer

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

Singapore workers face faster AI disruption than most economies, government warns

Vietnam warns of three converging crises destabilizing Asia-Pacific security at Shangri-La Dialogue

Super El Niño and Iran’s fuel crisis converge to threaten Asia’s power grids this summer

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

Southeast Asia’s fragmented AI strategy leaves countries vulnerable to tech giants

Singapore’s tourism revenue falls despite rising arrivals, squeezing mid-market businesses

Grab’s AI-driven ‘cyborganisation’ challenges Southeast Asia’s data protection laws

Oil shock fractures Southeast Asia, hitting Philippines and Thailand hardest

Malacca Strait emerges as next global chokepoint, threatening Western supply chains and inflation