Analysis

Tech & AI

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

India reopens Bangladesh corridor, but South Asia stays walled

America’s Southeast Asia problem has a Northeast Asia solution

India’s green economy is booming. Its coal consumption keeps rising.

South Korea’s arms sales to Southeast Asia remain a vendor relationship, not a partnership

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

Carnival’s unhedged fuel bet is catching up with its record revenue

Seoul arrives first to claim its place in Middle East rebuilding

China’s yuan push hits a wall: control beats convertibility

Asia is arming Japan to balance China, not fear it

A Taiwanese cobot maker is betting Thailand’s factories will follow

An Indian software firm just moved its Asia car code to Hanoi

Franklin Templeton just put $1.6 trillion on a blockchain

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

America’s hospital ship returns to Southeast Asia with a strategic message

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

Malaysia’s mall boom is really a bet on apartments next door

Indian workers film their homes to train robots they’ll never afford

East Asia’s dating apps cannot fix what economics broke

Asian savers want independence in old age. Cash won’t get them there.

Indonesia convicted four officers. The investigation found thirteen.

A Seoul data centre fire shows why digital sovereignty through localization fails

Telecom operators are quietly becoming AI infrastructure gatekeepers

Kazakhstan’s oil buyers want more. Its pipes say no.

Hong Kong is using dogs to keep diners from Shenzhen

Kerala’s property boom is colliding with a material cost crisis

Japan is quietly becoming Asia’s third power pole

Full hotels are not profitable hotels in Southeast Asia anymore

Japan is arming Southeast Asia with ships tailored to each threat

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

India’s central bank chose geopolitics over growth forecasts

India’s migration wave is reshaping Brisbane’s housing market

Indonesia’s rupiah hits 28-year low. The president says it doesn’t matter.

Asia’s defence ministers reject US call for more ships, more summits

Oil surges as missiles split the market in two

AI is splitting India’s outsourcing industry in two

New Zealand’s young are leaving for Australian wages they cannot match

Australia and Japan offer Pacific islands a third way between superpowers

Blackstone just raised a quarter of Asia’s entire PE market

China built a $2 trillion megacity. It cannot build the trust inside it.

China’s surveillance city is already inside your devices

China engineered fake holidays to make people spend money

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

Tencent’s Penguin Island campus locks engineers inside China’s innovation strategy

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

South Korea’s inactive youth hit six-year high as employers block first-time job seekers

Taiwan warns of Chinese apps collecting sensitive data but lacks legal power to restrict them

Karnataka’s fuel tax revenue trap blocks relief for transport operators facing West Asia price surge

Nvidia commits NT$150 billion to Taiwan headquarters, conditioning expansion on grid capacity

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

Quad ministers unite on critical minerals and maritime surveillance as China watches closely

Taiwan’s TECO targets AI data center boom with modular power blocks across Asia and North America

Tokyo’s Hands Shibuya flagship closes after 48 years, signalling shift in prime retail real estate

YouTube moves AI content label to video player, raising creator compliance stakes

China, Iran, Myanmar, Venezuela build shadow internet to fight state censorship

Asia Pacific faces US$450 billion climate loss by 2030, with Western insurers exposed

China’s seized Bitcoin reserves challenge US dollar-backed crypto dominance

Sri Lanka’s 100-bp rate hike risks derailing fragile IMF-backed recovery

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

Thailand cuts visa-free stay to 30 days, impacting 39 nationalities and Indian tourism

Southeast Asian nations impose new tourist levies and caps to combat overtourism

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

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

Asian bond selloff deepens as oil prices and US rate bets drive yields to 7.4%

Saudi Arabia’s $24.7 billion oil revenue masks market share loss in Asia

China’s $620 billion US debt sale reshapes global reserve system, avoids market crash

Miss Universe Philippines winner sparks debate on diaspora identity and colonial beauty standards

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

HSBC’s $4 billion facility routes Chinese clean energy to Philippines, bypassing US influence

India’s IT giants shed 13,000 jobs as AI automation reshapes outsourcing model

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

Everest sets single-day summit record, forcing Nepal to weigh new climbing rules

Five Italian divers die in Maldives cave, exposing regulatory gaps for extreme tourism

Indonesia’s rupiah hits record low of 17,600, challenging central bank credibility

Thailand launches $5.39 billion relief package for 43 million citizens as inflation bites

Vietnam’s youth unemployment hits 9% peak, exposing structural skills gap

Bali’s main landfill at capacity, forcing new plastic bans and threatening tourism

New giant sauropod Nagatitan challenges assumptions about mega-herbivore evolution in Asia

Thailand becomes key Russian gateway to Southeast Asia, raising sanctions circumvention risk

Metro Manila housing affordability crisis deepens as prices outpace incomes by 19.8x

Singapore overtakes Indonesia as Southeast Asia’s largest stock market amid capital flight

Middle East war drives aluminium prices up 19%, threatens Southeast Asia clean energy goals

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

Bhutan’s Sustainable Development Fee cut by 50% until 2027

Europe faces six-week jet fuel shortage, threatening UK summer flights to Spain and Portugal

Lufthansa grounds 27 aircraft due to fuel crisis, cutting short-haul flights through 2026

Canadians can visit China visa-free until December 2026