Hong Kong has no gigafactories, but it wants a cut of Asia’s US$5T battery boom
Hong Kong does not make many batteries. It has no lithium mines, no gigafactories, and industrial land prices that would make any cell manufacturer wince. Yet Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Co...
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Bitcoin rebounds to US$81,000 but faces weakest October in 6 years
Bitcoin has climbed back above the critical US$81,000 baseline. This 24-hour rebound does not erase a difficult month. The digital asset remains in its weakest October performance in six years, down r...
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The AI told me to raise my prices by 40 percent but it had never been to a wet market
I run OTSATE, a small lemongrass sauce brand in Malaysia. I’m the founder, the cook and the person who does the numbers, so everything below is one operator’s experience, not a benchmark. Most of my a...
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Visa fees are soaring, but founders want US revenue more than US investors
Washington has spent the past year making it harder, pricier and more nerve-racking for foreign talent to work in America. Asian founders, if a new survey is to be believed, have mostly shrugged. Sing...
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Malaysian SMEs are comparing the wrong number when they buy a website
Most small business owners I speak to compare website quotes the same way: they line up the first invoice and pick the lowest. It feels sensible. It’s also how many end up paying several times more th...
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Fingular secures US$20M debt line to bet on Malaysia’s near-prime borrowers
Fingular, the Kuala Lumpur-headquartered fintech group behind the AhaPay buy now, pay later (BNPL) service, has secured a US$20 million credit facility from Silverstreak Group, a Singapore-based priva...
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The 70/30 rule: Why ASEAN banks still need humans as AI takes over
There was a time when a bank in Southeast Asia could win customers simply by shipping an app that did not crash on payday. That era, a new study suggests, is over. Twimbit, the Singapore-based researc...
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How to use AI in marketing without opening a single dashboard
Every Monday, as a marketer, I used to open nine tabs: Google Analytics, Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools the newsletter platform, the social scheduler and four ad accounts (Google/Meta/LinkedIn/T...
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China’s microdrama war heats up as Tencent, ByteDance fight for eyeballs
Shen Jiaoqi, a banker living in southern China’s Guangdong province, cannot stop watching microdramas. The shows are so addictive that she sometimes spends entire days gazing at her phone. One time, s...
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Every department you add makes your startup harder to understand
Open 10 startup websites. Cover the logos. Shuffle the pages. Nothing breaks. “Revolutionising how finance works.” “Trusted by industry leaders.” Nobody asks which leaders. The usual diagnosis is lazy...
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Thailand, not just Singapore, is Asia’s quiet AI surprise, says NetSuite’s Amit Suxena
Ask a typical AI assistant a question and it answers. Amit Suxena thinks that is already yesterday’s AI. “You don’t need AI where I ask a question and get an answer. I think that’s already passed,” sa...
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SAFE Kids vs. SMART Kids: Is the Philippines ready?
MANILA, Philippines – I attended “SAFE Kids, SMART Policies: A Dialogue on Children’s Online Safety and Digital Rights,” organized by Gorriceta Africa Cauton & Saavedra at The Manila House on Thursday...
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Treasury sanctions North Koreans, Russians for alleged IT fraud
The Treasury Department on Wednesday sanctioned 10 individuals and one entity involved in an alleged scheme to defraud American businesses to benefit the North Korean military. The department’s Office...
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Kalshi defends Platinum program against scrutiny from Democrats
Kalshi argued Tuesday that its VIP program and platform are "fundamentally different" from those offered by sportsbooks, after several Democratic lawmakers expressed concerns over loyalty programs at ...
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KISS's Gene Simmons on AI in music industry: 'Learn how to use it, otherwise it will use you'
Gene Simmons of KISS fame is urging the music world to get on board with artificial intelligence. The "Rock and Roll All Nite" singer was asked about his stance on AI on NewsNation's "The Hill with Bl...
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Elon Musk, Jensen Huang have opposing outlooks on AI neoclouds. Who is likely correct?
As investor anxiety over an artificial intelligence bubble mounts, SpaceX’s Elon Musk and Nvidia chief Jensen Huang have offered starkly divergent outlooks on whether the specialist cloud providers po...
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Shortly after featuring in the Asian Games, Pokémon UNITE to shut down
Pokémon UNITE will end service in March 2027, just months after featuring in the Asian Games in Nagoya, where the Philippines took home a bronze medal. The Pokémon Company announced on October 27 that...
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Huawei’s Tau Scaling Law roll-out reaches base stations in blow to US chip curbs
Huawei Technologies is already integrating elements of the Tau Scaling Law – a new chip design principle that helps the company overcome US export controls – into its wireless communications network, ...
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Silicon Valley braces for firestorm of Dem scrutiny in 2027
Silicon Valley is bracing for a firestorm of scrutiny should Democrats take control of Congress next year, underscoring how the industry’s efforts to get on President Trump’s good side last year becam...
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Is the iPhone Duo for you?
To review the iPhone Duo is like asking how someone’s eighth can be another person’s first. This isn’t a review (yet). It is a collection of feelings from using the new iPhone Duo for the past 12 hour...
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Shop, scan, save: how to use OCBC overseas QR payments in 7 destinations
Travellers can unlock perks at merchants in 7 countries and stores like Don Quijote, Shake Shack and 7-Eleven, without juggling multiple apps or loyalty programmes....
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HD Hyundai Q3 net profit up 40% to $1 bil.
HD Hyundai, the holding company of Korea's leading shipbuilding conglomerate, on Wednesday reported a third-quarter net profit of 1.38 trillion won ($1 billion), up 40 percent from a year earlier. The...
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Sangmidang seeks North American, European expansion through global partnerships
Hur Jin-soo, vice chairman of Korean bakery giant Sangmidang Holdings, met Gellert Global Group (GGG) Chairman George Gellert and U.S. Ambassador to France Charles Kushner in Paris earlier this week t...
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Hanwha's KAI bid bodes well for another defense leap forward
Hanwha Group’s potential acquisition of Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) could give the country’s aerospace and defense industry a much-needed boost in the global market, as privately owned defense fi...
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Debate grows over KAI privatization as Hanwha aims to expand stake
The privatization of Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) could gain momentum as the state-run Export-Import Bank of Korea (Eximbank) commissions a 1.8 billion won ($1.36 million) consulting project and t...
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EMAT seeks to reduce China reliance on rare earth magnets with Pohang facility
Evolution Metals & Technologies (EMAT), a Nasdaq-listed rare earth magnet producer, is making a big bet on Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province, by building a facility capable of producing 10,000 tons of...
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Regional airports to expand international flights by 11.6% for winter season
Korea Airports Corp., which operates 14 airports nationwide, said Wednesday that airlines will operate 10,208 scheduled flights a week during this winter season, which runs from Oct. 25 through March ...
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Hana Financial opens digital vocational classroom for students with developmental disabilities
Hana Financial Group has opened a digital classroom at a special education school in Seoul to help students with developmental disabilities explore career options and practice workplace skills, the gr...
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Hyundai Motor rises to No. 29 in Interbrand's global brand ranking
Hyundai Motor rose to 29th place in Interbrand’s Best Global Brands 2026 ranking, up two places from a year earlier, with its brand value reaching $25 billion, the automaker said Wednesday. The annual...
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SK Broadband, LS Marine Solution team up to protect vital Asia cable link
SK Broadband, the telecommunications unit of SK Group, is strengthening safeguards around a vital undersea cable linking Korea with Japan and Singapore, partnering with marine engineering specialist L...
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