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 -7 SeptemberCompass
Volcanic ash closed eight Indonesian airports. Here’s what changed for travelers.
Mount Anak Krakatau's eruption forced Jakarta's main hub offline on September 6, stranding 170,000 passengers and cancelling 1,558 flights across Qantas, Garuda, and Singapore Airlines routes to Australia and beyond.
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6 SeptemberEarth
Volcanic ash from Anak Krakatau shuts Jakarta’s main airport for four hours
A 50,000-foot ash plume from the eruption forced Soekarno-Hatta to suspend operations from 5:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. on September 6, affecting 33 flights and exposing Indonesia's aviation network to…
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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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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…
