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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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Klook cofounder Ethan Lin thinks the U.S. can help grow one of Asia’s largest travel platforms

"The U.S. is actually one of our largest markets, especially as Americans are taking a growing interest in APAC destinations."

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‘Re-dollarization,’ not ‘de-dollarization’: Standard Chartered thinks fears over the U.S. dollar are overstated

“We’re not really in this de-dollarization camp,” said Divya Devesh, the bank's co-head of FX research for ASEAN and South Asia.

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‘Without our money, people will struggle’: Muangthai Capital’s new CEO Parithad Petampai defends the role of microfinance in Thailand

Muangthai ranks No. 295 on Fortune’s Southeast Asia 500 list, with 2025 revenue of 30.74 billion Thai baht ($936 million).

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Asia’s founders are decamping to the U.S. as the region suffers a protracted venture funding slump

Venture slowdown, weak exits and fragmented markets are pushing some Asian startups to Silicon Valley.

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Asia’s super-aging societies are sparking a boom in high-end longevity clinics—even if ‘public enthusiasm’ is outpacing the science

A new kind of business—blending hospitality, technology, and traditional practices—is promising to extend not just lifespan, but also 'healthspan'.

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The World Bank has elevated Vietnam and the Philippines to upper-middle-income status—but now they face ‘a far more demanding phase of development’

Both countries must now escape the middle income trap that has stalled several of their Southeast Asian peers.

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OCBC rolls out its ‘avatar banking’ platform with ‘Wendy’ and ‘Wayne,’ two virtual financial advisors, as banks integrate AI into wealth management

Still, new CEO Tan Teck Long promised to hire 600 new relationship managers, as wealth management becomes a growing business for the Singaporean bank.

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Maybank Singapore CEO Alvin Lee looks to tap the silver economy and cross-border flows to grow his business

Singapore now contributes 20% of Maybank’s annual revenue, but its country CEO Alvin Lee hopes to lift that number to 30% by 2030.

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Why Temasek’s CFO is moving into a new power role

Temasek moves CFO Png Chin Yee into a new leadership role and taps Wendy Koh as finance chief.

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As public sentiment sours, Indonesia awaits MSCI verdict which risks $13 billion in capital outflows

Indonesia's market is now one of the world’s worst-performing, with the Jakarta Composite Index falling over 28% in 2026 thus far.

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Both U.S. and Chinese AI firms are setting up shop in Singapore. Can the country become Asia’s neutral AI hub?

"It’s easiest to operate in the region if I have people in Singapore—it’s where conversations are happening."

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