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Business NewsYinson’s Take-Private Talks Highlight Public-Private Valuation Disconnect
An indicative RM2.35-a-share proposal to privatise Malaysian energy infrastructure group Yinson Holdings Bhd highlights a persistent valuation gap as its core offshore production unit transitions from a capital-heavy build cycle to long-duration operating cash flows. -
Business NewsSingapore’s Next Growth Story Goes Beyond Capital
As Asia-Pacific businesses look beyond domestic markets, Singapore is emerging as a meeting point for founders, investors, technology companies and institutions shaping the region’s next phase of growth. -
Business NewsJapan’s SBI Takes 20% Stake in Jakarta-Based Ajaib to Deepen Digital Finance Push
The $270 Mn investment implies a post-money valuation of about $1.35 Bn, adding the Indonesian retail investment platform to a regional strategy that increasingly spans digital assets, tokenised securities and settlement infrastructure.
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Business NewsHAVI, the Group Behind McDonald’s Supply Chain, Picks Kuala Lumpur as Its First Asia-Pacific Tech Hub
The logistics provider expects the hub to generate up to 150 high-value tech roles, wiring Malaysia into a 24-hour network alongside Chicago, Krakow and Lisbon. -
Business NewsSingapore’s Sembcorp Files $393 Mn IPO for Indian Renewables Arm to Pare Debt
The parent company is making another attempt to list its Indian business. But it is not selling any of its own shares in the all-primary offering, with INR 3,000 Cr of net proceeds designated for debt repayment. -
Business NewsSMBC, Singtel Innov8 Back fileAI as Corporate VCs Dive below Foundation Models
Singapore’s fileAI said the undisclosed investment will fund a Japan build-out and a financial services push, extending a string of corporate venture bets on the infrastructure needed to put AI into business workflows. -
Business NewsBioactivx Raises $3 Mn as Synthetic Wound-Care Product Awaits Singapore Approval
Singapore’s Cocoon Capital and Martin Krupp co-led the pre-Series A round, which will fund manufacturing and regulatory expansion as Bioactiv Matrix awaits approval in its home market. -
Business NewsAI Video Platform Higgsfield Secures $400 Mn Funding at $5.4 Bn Valuation
Singapore’s 1982 Ventures said it participated in the Series B financing as Higgsfield’s valuation has more than quadrupled since January, giving the fund manager a global AI deal within its enterprise AI and fintech mandate. -
Business NewsSingapore Bids to Host Investment Tribunal While Helping Shape Its Rules
The city-state has submitted a jurisdiction model and offered a dedicated facility for a permanent forum, although its headquarters and powers remain unsettled. -
Business NewsFlorida-Based Lean Solutions Deepens Its Philippine Bet With SupportZebra Deal
The acquisition will lift the US-based provider’s Philippine workforce above 2,000 and add Cagayan de Oro to its Manila and Cebu delivery network, while bringing clients from fintech, healthcare and SaaS. -
Business NewsEntrepreneur APAC Capital & Scale Summit 2026 Set to Unfold in Singapore to Drive Cross-BorderGrowth, VC Investment, and Innovation
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Business NewsTCS to Buy Porsche’s MHP for €320 Mn Alongside €1.25 Bn AI Deal
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. -
Business NewsStandard Chartered Sees Vietnam Growing 11% in 2027, Far Above ADB Forecasts
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 -
Business NewsWhy Thailand Is a Crucial Test for AHA’s Performance-Linked E-Commerce Model
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. -
Business NewsVietnam Seeks Sovereign AI; Nvidia Says the Country Needs More GPUs
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. -
Business NewsMalaysia’s Trade Hits Record RM364.7 Bn as Electronics Lift Exports and Imports
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. -
Business NewsChips, Food and Telecom Anchor 4th India-Singapore Roundtable
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. -
Business NewsSingapore Aligns ONE Pass, Tax and Capital in Its Push to Attract Global Fund Managers
The proposed Investment Management Track could allow performance-linked returns to count in ONE Pass salary assessments. A planned companion tax exemption and an MAS investment programme aim to anchor senior investors, capital-allocation decisions and high-value jobs as Hong Kong sharpens its own incentives. -
Business NewsMinor Food Takes Bonchon Beyond Thailand in Global Ownership Deal
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. -
Business NewsThailand Targets ‘Identity Laundering’ as Fraud Fight Moves Beyond Bank Accounts
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. -
Business NewsSingapore, India Put Economic Roadmap to the Test as Ministers Gather for 4th Roundtable
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. -
Business NewsAlibaba’s Lingxi Sale Shows AI Is Raising the Bar for What Stays Core
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. -
Business NewsVietnam Lets Starlink In Without Liberalising Telecoms
Starlink’s Vietnamese order book has opened under a regulatory exception that gives SpaceX full ownership but leaves Hanoi in control of scale, coverage and duration. -
Business NewsAfter Building a Chip Manufacturing Hub, Penang Wants a Bigger Slice of the Value Chain
The Malaysian state is pushing beyond semiconductor manufacturing into chip design and homegrown IP under an ambitious 2040 strategy. -
Business NewsDayOne Moves Biological Computing From Lab to Server Rack in Singapore
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. -
Business NewsSingapore-Based Manus Is Independent Again. But Washington and Beijing May Still Set Its Limits
The AI start-up is regaining corporate independence from Meta, but its experience shows how national security rules are narrowing the commercial choices of technology companies caught between the US, China and others. -
Business NewsBrazil Adds Commercial Weight to Singapore-Mercosur Trade Pact
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. -
Business NewsNvidia’s $70 Bn AI Bet May Face a $2 Tn Reality Check as Anthropic Eyes IPO
A public listing will test whether Nvidia’s ecosystem funding is a genuine value creator or a circular financing loop. -
Business NewsIndonesia Pushes Internet into Remote Regions as 31,000 Public Sites Get Connected
The country is pushing connectivity beyond urban broadband expansion to transform its remote frontier regions into digital public-service and commerce hubs. -
Business NewsNot Every Entrepreneur Needs a Pitch Deck: The Missing Middle in Asia’s Future of Work
Between venture-backed startups and platform-based gig work lies a less visible part of Asia’s economy: people building small, flexible businesses through products, services, skills and personal relationships. -
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Marvel Capital Opens Kuala Lumpur Hub as Malaysia Courts Family Wealth
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. -
Business NewsSingtel’s Q1 Profit Drops 72% as Airtel Stake-Sale Gain Fades; Underlying Earnings Beat Estimates
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. -
Business NewsWhy 95% of AI Pilots Fail and What Building Across Two Continents Taught Us Shares Imran Tariq & Jun Xiong
Earlier this year, MIT’s NANDA initiative published a number that stopped me mid-scroll: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing. -
Business NewsNintendo Turns to a Noodle Empire to Unlock Indonesia’s Billion-Dollar Gaming Market
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. -
Business NewsEnterprise AI in Focus: Singapore’s AICC Says Its Routing Solution Slashes 47% of API Costs
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. -
Business NewsSingapore Exports Rise 27.4% on AI Boom; Growth Forecasts See Steep Upgrade
The global AI investment boom is sending demand for chips and computing hardware sharply higher, reshaping Singapore’s trade outlook. -
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Malaysia Tests Agentic AI on MyGOV to Help Complete Government Transactions
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. -
Business NewsVinSpace Taps SpaceX as Vietnam’s Private Space Push Takes Shape
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. -
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South Korea’s $3.5 Bn Chip Fund Puts Vietnam Supply Chain in Focus
The country has launched an extensive package for its semiconductor industry, driving a significant expansion of backend chip production into Vietnam. -
Business NewsPluang Brings AI Agents to Indonesia’s Booming Retail Trading, with ‘Human in the Loop’
The platform is launching agentic trading in Indonesia, using models like ChatGPT to assemble trades while requiring human approval for final execution. -
Business NewsAI Drug Discovery Pulls in Fresh Capital as GV Backs Singapore’s Engine
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. -
Business NewsWall Street’s Voice-Phishing Wave Tests the Trust Question. Will It Impact MAS Guardrails?
The attacks targeted employees, not autonomous systems. But they show why identity, authority and pre-execution controls must work together as financial institutions give AI agents more power to act. -
Business NewsFrom TikTok to Frontier AI: Is ByteDance Sprinting towards a 10 Tn Model?
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. -
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Singapore Puts US Tariff Exposure at S$9.5 Bn as Chemicals, Optical Goods Face Levy
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. -
Business NewsAs FDI Dips, the Philippines Pitches an ASEAN Base to Singapore Firms
Manila is hard-selling itself as a production and services base for companies diversifying across Southeast Asia, but its own investment numbers have slipped. -
Business NewsI Squared Pushes Southeast Asia Storage Build-Out with Cella Deal
The US-based infrastructure investor is entering Southeast Asia’s largest economy, extending a storage build-out that began in the Philippines less than two years ago. -
Business NewsDBS Group’s Wealth Push Crosses Half-Trillion Mark as Record Profit Lifts Outlook
Singapore’s largest bank raised its 2026 income forecast after fees, treasury sales and trading income offset the pressure from lower lending margins. -
Business NewsWhy CapitaLand Is Filling Singapore Science Park with Puzzles, Pickleball and a Chain-Reaction Machine
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. -
Business NewsShein Eyes $30-40 Bn Valuation for Hong Kong IPO
Investor meetings began last week as the fast-fashion e-retailer prepares to launch the offering as early as mid-August. -
Business NewsVietnam Enlists Diplomats in Push to Take Local Firms Global
The GoGlobal programme aims to help 1,000 businesses prepare overseas expansion plans by 2030. -
Business NewsMalaysia Emerges as AI Hardware Hub with Investments Fuelling Growth
Semiconductor exports and a rapidly expanding data-centre pipeline are helping the economy outperform expectations and withstand the Middle East energy shock. -
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Alibaba Unveils Biggest Qwen Model; DeepSeek Drives AI Costs Lower
Qwen3.8-Max climbed global model rankings while DeepSeek’s V4-Flash emerged as the cheapest prominent AI system to run, highlighting China’s push to compete on both performance and price. -
Business NewsCXMT Weighs Second Beijing Fab After $8.6 Bn IPO
The Chinese memory-chip maker is seeking support from Beijing’s Yizhuang development zone as local governments compete to capture its production expansion.