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The International Energy Agency reports that energy demand across Southeast Asia rose at twice the global average rate in 2024 and finds that consumption is set to double by 2050. To maintain rising living standards, economies across the region are pushing into higher-value and more energy-intense industries, data centres being one obvious example. That creates … Read more
Southeast Asia’s start-up scene is just getting started. As Arun Pai, a principal at Singapore-based Monk’s Hill Ventures pointed out at last week’s Fortune Innovation Forum in Kuala Lumpur, the region’s tech sector is a decade younger than India’s, two decades behind China, and five decades behind Silicon Valley. After a flurry of optimistic dealmaking … Read more
Asia’s crypto audience has made a decisive shift: they’re no longer relying on algorithms to tell them what matters. In the second quarter of 2025, 82% of all crypto-native traffic in the region flowed into tier-1 publishers, according to new findings from Outset Data Pulse, a continuous intelligence framework developed to track visibility, engagement, and … Read more
Asia’s companies have long traipsed to either the New York Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ for their public debuts. Southeast Asian tech giant Sea, for example, listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2017. More recently, Hong Kong- and Singapore-based travel platform Klook recently filed for a listing on the NYSE. “Historically, we’ve been … Read more
South Korea’s major defense giants have amassed roughly $69 billion in order backlogs as of late 2024, according to media reports. Seoul is also accelerating investment in advanced weapons systems and expanding its defense ties, particularly with Europe. With the new EU-South Korea Security and Defence Partnership in 2024 and growing exports of vehicles and … Read more
Tan Su Shan, chief executive officer of DBS Group Holdings Ltd., speaking at the Singapore Fintech Festival in Singapore, on Nov. 12, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images SINGAPORE – Amid fears of an artificial intelligence bubble, much has been made of recent reports suggesting that AI has yet to generate returns for companies … Read more
Southeast Asia’s largest bank is rolling out an AI chatbot for its corporate clients, giving “round-the-block” access for customer care needs. A pilot version of the generative AI-powered chatbot, named DBS Joy, was rolled out in February. It has since managed over 120,000 unique chats, DBS claimed in a statement. The virtual assistant also cut … Read more
Good morning. Asia editor Nick Gordon here, filling in for Diane. I spent most of last week in the quiet Korean town of Gyeongju, host to world leaders and business tycoons as part of the APEC Summit. Many on-site were paying close attention to U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s “amazing” meeting … Read more
Zhang Lei, founder and chairman of Hillhouse Investment, during the Global Financial Leaders’ Investment Summit in Hong Kong, China, on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025. Bloomberg | Getty Images Asia-focused private equity managers are turning more bullish on the world’s second-largest economy, betting on Beijing’s drive for technological self-sufficiency and rapid adoption to deliver the next … Read more
A woman poses for a selfie next to signage for e-commerce giant Alibaba in the Xuhui district in Shanghai on Feb. 22, 2025. Hector Retamal | Afp | Getty Images Alibaba and ByteDance’s TikTok Shop are just some of the Chinese e-commerce players that have quickly come to dominate around half of the online shopping … Read more
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