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Southeast Asia shouldn’t copy the U.S. healthcare model, says Walgreens Boots Alliance’s APAC head: ‘It saves your life, but it’s not very healthy’

Southeast Asia is building out its systems of care amid rising healthcare costs and a shortage of specialist doctors.

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Southeast Asia needs more regulation and investments for its cultural industries to scale, says POPS Worldwide CEO Esther Nguyen

While listeners today embrace music from different countries, there’s still a way to go before Southeast Asia’s music industry can scale globally.

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The AI boom is the first platform shift where there are ‘real advantages’ of building from Asia, says Antler’s founder and CEO Magnus Grimeland

A few factors make Asia an appealing home for startups: a rapidly growing electricity grid, and an abundance of advanced chips and engineering talent.

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Petrovietnam ran out of Middle East crude during the Iran war—now it’s betting on LNG, wind, and nuclear

CEO Le Manh Cuong says Petrovietnam went without Middle East crude during the Iran war and is now diversifying into LNG, wind, and nuclear.

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Rakuten Capital’s Saemin Ahn is ‘pessimistic’ on Southeast Asian VC: Good startups are getting ‘a lot less oxygen’

The managing partner of Rakuten’s venture arm says the region’s startups lack the scale and exits to justify U.S.-style checks.

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Bitget CEO Gracy Chen aims to enter the U.S. market in 2027, with or without the CLARITY Act

Hopes to pass the CLARITY Act died last month, following concerns by U.S. Senate Democrats over potential conflicts-of-interest.

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Singapore urges suppliers to ‘honor commitments’, as Indonesia slashes gas exports to the country by 9%

On Oct. 23, Indonesia decided to slash pipeline gas exports to Singapore by 9%, blaming domestic shortages.

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Biotech firm Rakuten Medical wants to bring its novel ‘lightsaber’ cancer cure to the U.S.

In the short-term, the firm is looking to enter markets close to home—including Taiwan, Macau, Singapore, Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia.

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Japanese biotech firm Rakuten Medical wants to bring its novel ‘lightsaber’ cancer cure to the U.S.

In the short-term, the firm is looking to enter markets close to home—including Taiwan, Macau, Singapore, Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia.

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Raffles Family Office is building a wealth manager for Asia’s stablecoin billionaires

Younger billionaires are more likely to store their wealth on the blockchain.

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The next K-pop? POPS founder Esther Nguyen hopes TikTok can make Southeast Asian music a global phenomenon

“I knew I wanted to do something in Southeast Asia, and specifically Vietnam,” Esther Nguyen, the CEO of POPS, tells Fortune.

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Atlassian’s Mike Cannon-Brookes: AI agents need a name tag—and a human to blame for their mistakes

Cannon-Brookes says the hardest part of putting agents to work isn’t the model but the interface and the accountability.

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South Korea bets on five regional airports to spread its tourism boom beyond Seoul

South Korea drew 18.9 million foreign visitors in 2025, yet only a third ventured outside Seoul.

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Indonesia’s Danantara pledges $5 billion to home-grown companies as MSCI once again threatens a downgrade

Chief investment officer Pandu Sjahrir says consumer stocks are cheap; MSCI's proposed standalone reclassification threatens to deepen the sell-off.

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Razer’s CEO waited 20 years for everyone to become a gamer. He says AI is finally making it happen

After going private in 2022, the gaming hardware maker is betting on AI companions, camera-equipped headsets, and game-testing tools.

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Binance weighs stock access in markets including Hong Kong and South Korea, says co-CEO Richard Teng

Several cryptocurrency exchanges are transforming themselves from apps devoted to coins into platforms handling different asset classes.

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‘The norm will be to trade with agents’: Crypto founders learn to love—and fear—AI

"We're the busiest we've ever been," says Blockaid co-founder Ido Ben-Natan.

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Vikrom Kromadit built his industrial park empire in Thailand and Vietnam. Laos is next

Laos's green energy potential is why the Amata CEO calls the landlocked country "the battery of Southeast Asia.”

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Will AI kill the Asian entertainment industry, or reinvent it?

Studios in China are turning to models from ByteDance and Kling to generate 100-minute short dramas for less than $3000.

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Why ‘China plus one’ is paying off less than Southeast Asia hoped

"China plus one" sent billions of dollars of investment into Southeast Asian factories. Yet the region isn't capturing enough value.

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‘No way’ the yuan challenges the U.S. dollar—though the yen and the pound may have more to fear, says Standard Chartered’s China CEO

“There is no way—at least in my career—for the RMB to challenge the USD,” Jean Lu said during a media roundtable in Singapore.

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The U.S. should be ‘more confident’ and less worried about losing ground to China, says Peking University expert

As U.S.-China relations thaw, Peking University’s Yu Tiejun argues that Washington's fears of losing the tech race are misplaced.

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Vietnam is finally a FTSE emerging market—yet it’s the country’s banks, not its exporters, that’ll benefit most

The upgrade could channel $6 billion in capital from foreign investors to Vietnamese companies.

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The U.S. is backing a $14 billion cable to keep Southeast Asia’s internet out of China’s reach

As the U.S. and China race to build rival subsea networks, countries "may be faced with accommodating two parallel tech stacks," one analyst says.

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Waymo to launch robotaxis in Singapore, its first Southeast Asia market, by 2028

Singapore is already one of the world’s most crowded AV markets.

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Anthropic will open its Singapore office in October, chasing OpenAI for Southeast Asia’s AI market

According to Anthropic data, Singapore was ranked second out of 121 countries in Claude usage, behind Australia.

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China has too much green energy. Experts think AI can fix that

Production in China's clean energy sector has grown so much that there’s more energy infrastructure than the market needs.

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Humanoids will have their ‘GPT-3.5’ moment within 5 years, says AGIBOT co-founder Yao Maoqing

Robot dance shows grab headlines, but China's humanoid makers are racing to find real uses in hotels and factories.

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AI solves overtourism’s ‘concentration problem’ by helping people find hidden gems, says Klook cofounder Ethan Lin

In Klook's Travel Pulse survey of roughly Gen Z and millennial travelers across Asia, 57% said they had used AI to find new destinations or...

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Ayala, one of Asia’s oldest conglomerates, wants to keep itself together. Its CEO explains why

Ayala CEO Cezar Consing explains why the 192-year-old Philippine conglomerate is staying together—and demanding more from its businesses.

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‘My boss is the Chinese customer’: Walmart China CEO Christina Zhu on how the Fortune 500 company is thriving in a tough retail market

Although many Western brands, including Starbucks and Lululemon, have struggled in China, Walmart has continued to deepen its footprint.

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When things go bad, you want to be in China, says Gavekal’s Louis-Vincent Gave

"When things go well, you want to be [invested] in the U.S. But the 10% of times where it goes badly, you want to be in China.”

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Moody’s head of sustainable finance: Asia is embracing a ‘pragmatic transition’ on energy

“Virtue signalling” is giving way to national energy priorities as Asia pursues renewables, nuclear power, alternative fuels and coal.

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From a Singapore airport soundtrack to new AI-powered PCs, HP is looking for a new rhythm in Asia

HP recently launched Garage 2.0, a startup accelerator, in Singapore as it tries to revive its business for the AI age.

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Singapore has overhauled its baby bonus scheme. Will it work to boost birth rates this time?

Probably not.

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Bridge founder Zach Abrams sees an opportunity for ‘tokenized local currencies’ across Asia

The Stripe-owned company sees potential in Asia, where trade-heavy economies need faster cross-border payment rails.

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How IHH Healthcare CEO Prem Kumar Nair is planning for a longer-lived Asia

The head of Asia’s largest private health group is advancing clinical longevity, cancer care, AI and neighborhood-based treatment.

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Asia’s founders are going global faster, sometimes even before they’re sure what their business is, says Stripe’s SEA MD

To help businesses expand, Stripe is announcing partnerships with an array of Southeast Asian payment processors like ShopeePay, GCash, and TrueMoney.

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The AI boom is lifting economies across Asia. But for Southeast Asia, it might just be a ‘short-term blip’

Economists studying the region are worried that AI’s gains won’t be evenly shared across Asia.

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AWS’s Asia chief is relocating to Japan as the country scrambles to modernize its legacy IT systems

Last year, Japan began a push to reboot its innovation engine with a plan to channel $2.3 trillion in investments to 17 strategic sectors by 2040.

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China, the EU, and Singapore are pushing back against the White House’s new ‘Great Transshipment Scam’ report

The White House claimed last week that the rerouting of Chinese goods cost the U.S. as much as $303 billion.

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The Philippines needs ‘power of all sorts’ to build energy security following a nationwide crisis, says Prime Infra CEO Guillaume Lucci

“What we need is more energy of all sorts, not only more renewable energy,” Lucci tells Fortune at the firm’s headquarters in Pasay City, Manila.

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Singapore’s IPO reboot sees 3.5x the listings and over $3 billion raised, as reforms bring bourse revenue up 14% via dual listing bridge with Nasdaq

The Singapore Exchange (SGX) reported a 24.6% increase in net profits in FY2026.

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Sea’s MariBank wants to export its Singapore digital banking playbook: First stop, the Philippines

MariBank launched in 2023 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Sea, Southeast Asia’s largest tech firm and No. 12 on the Fortune Southeast Asia 500.

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A subsidiary of Southeast Asia’s largest tech firm is looking to build a ‘regional digital banking group’ out of Singapore

MariBank launched in 2023 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sea, Southeast Asia’s largest tech firm and No. 12 on the Southeast Asia 500.

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CXMT’s blockbuster IPO will test whether China’s memory makers are ready for the spotlight: ‘It does not yet mean China is broadly catching up’

Experts say shortages are forcing companies to explore Chinese chip supplies, yet adoption is still likely to be selective and politically contested.

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Southeast Asia is ‘hungry for innovation’ and eager to leapfrog, says SAP’s new APAC president Verena Siow

Southeast Asia, home to young, digitally-savvy populations and a rising middle class, offers fertile ground for leapfrogging.

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TSMC and Tencent break into the top 100 of the Fortune Global 500 list, as Asia rides the AI boom

Here's who's rising, and who's debuting, from Asia on this year's Global 500, Fortune's ranking of the world's largest companies by revenue.

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Sun Life launches global private wealth platform targeting Asia’s booming HNWI market

Insurers are expanding into wealth management, tapping a customer base that already uses their products to protect their finances.

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Southeast Asia ‘has not really moved up the value chain’ and risks missing the AI boom, says Standard Chartered’s chief ASEAN economist

“Every country wants to have the next Silicon Valley or be the next AI mega-producer, but getting there isn’t just a matter of snapping one's...

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