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The Indian IT giant will take over the 4,500-person automotive consultancy as Porsche moves from owner to anchor client under a five-year services commitment spanning manufacturing, engineering and software-defined mobility.

The bank expects growth to accelerate to 11% next year, four percentage points above the Asian Development Bank’s projection and closer to Hanoi’s own double-digit ambitions

The Indonesian e-commerce enabler is exporting a performance-linked model into Southeast Asia's fastest-growing platform market, where rising marketplace costs are shifting the contest from GMV to profitable growth.

The chipmaker estimates Vietnam has just 10,000–15,000 GPUs and is urging Hanoi to build national-scale computing capacity, exposing the infrastructure gap behind the country’s push for sovereign AI.

E&E products generated about three-fifths of the increase in both exports and imports, pointing to a production chain upswing rather than export demand alone.

The roundtable produced a food safety agreement and a telecom regulation LOI, alongside fresh discussions on semiconductor supplier entry, capital market links and aviation connectivity, as New Delhi presses ahead with a $13.3 Bn chip push.

The Thai restaurant group will own the Korean fried-chicken brand outside the Americas while Serruya Private Equity will take the Western Hemisphere, extending Minor’s operator-to-owner playbook.

The anti-graft agency wants to link civil registration, immigration, hospital and banking records after investigations exposed how genuine state-issued IDs built on false information can slip through conventional checks.

Vivian Balakrishnan, Singapore's minister of foreign affairs, and S. Jaishankar, India's minister of external affairs, laid the foundation stone for India’s new chancery in Singapore today. A day later, ministers and business leaders will turn to the harder task of advancing co-operation across investment, advanced manufacturing, digitalisation and connectivity.

The gaming exit is not simply another non-core disposal or a way to fund AI. It shows how Alibaba’s capital-intensive AI and cloud push is tightening the test for which businesses it still needs to own.

The Malaysian state is pushing beyond semiconductor manufacturing into chip design and homegrown IP under an ambitious 2040 strategy.

The 20-unit prototype at NUS Medicine puts living human neurons alongside silicon inside a server rack. The bigger test is whether a technology born in the laboratory can become reliable, scalable data-centre infrastructure.

The agreement now covers Mercosur’s largest economy, where trade with Singapore reached $10.7 Bn in 2025, as the South American bloc widens its commercial links with Asia.

The country is pushing connectivity beyond urban broadband expansion to transform its remote frontier regions into digital public-service and commerce hubs.

The Labuan-headquartered advisory firm will use its KL Eco City office to serve clients across Asia as Malaysia targets RM2 Bn in assets under its Forest City family-office scheme by end-2026.

Net profit fell to S$818 Mn from S$2.88 Bn as last year's exceptional gains dropped out. Underlying profit rose 21% to S$831 Mn, but Singapore's domestic business remained under pressure.

The Japanese console maker will officially sell hardware in Southeast Asia's largest gaming market from December, ending years of grey-market imports. But its digital game store isn't part of the deal yet.

By operating as a unified junction point to more than 300 AI models, the system dynamically shifts workloads between lightweight options for routine tasks and premium systems for complex reasoning.

The global AI investment boom is sending demand for chips and computing hardware sharply higher, reshaping Singapore’s trade outlook.

The beta rollout gives Malaysia a live test of whether AI agents can work across government systems while preserving user consent, data safeguards and human oversight.

The venture supports Vietnam's goal to become a mid-level regional space power by 2030, shifting the local industry from state-backed projects to private capital.

The country has launched an extensive package for its semiconductor industry, driving a significant expansion of backend chip production into Vietnam.

The platform is launching agentic trading in Indonesia, using models like ChatGPT to assemble trades while requiring human approval for final execution.

The investment underscores a sharp resurgence in global AI-biotech funding, though startups still face the high-stakes clinical challenge of moving AI-discovered therapies successfully through human trials.

The TikTok owner’s biggest bet could be more than three times the size of Moonshot’s Kimi K3 and approach Anthropic’s Mythos in scale.

About one-third of domestic exports to the US are subject to the 12.5% tariff, while semiconductors, pharmaceuticals and several other high-value categories remain exempt.

Manila is hard-selling itself as a production and services base for companies diversifying across Southeast Asia, but its own investment numbers have slipped.

The festival’s curators say play is a method of enquiry rather than a diversion, while CapitaLand, the real estate group behind Singapore Science Park, is developing the precinct as a live-work-play district.

Investor meetings began last week as the fast-fashion e-retailer prepares to launch the offering as early as mid-August.