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Billionaire Sy Family’s SM Prime Earmarks $9 Billion For Five-Year Property Expansion Plan

07.05.2025 8

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Singapore’s Mega Airport Project Pushes Forward With $3.7 Billion Contracts Awarded

06.05.2025 20

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Nepalese Billionaire Rebrands Philippine Resort Into A Marriott Property Amid Tourism Boom

05.05.2025 10

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Philippines’ Ayala Corp. Aims To Quadruple AC Health’s Valuation To $2 Billion

Philippines’ Ayala Corp. Aims To Quadruple AC Health’s Valuation To $2 Billion
28.04.2025 20

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Philippines’ Ayala Unit Raising $530 Million To Boost Renewable Energy Capacity

Philippines’ Ayala Unit Raising $530 Million To Boost Renewable Energy Capacity
23.04.2025 5

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Fintech Unicorn GCash May Delay Philippines’ Biggest IPO If US-China Trade War Escalates

22.04.2025 3

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Philippine Billionaire’s ICTSI To Expand Brazil Port, Unfazed By Trump’s Trade War

22.04.2025 20

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Philippine Drugstore Chain President Passes Away At 69

11.04.2025 9

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Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Spending $7.6 Billion For India Bio-Gas Project

03.04.2025 10

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Vietnamese Billionaire Pham Nhat Vuong’s VinGroup Sells AI Venture To Qualcomm

02.04.2025 20

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Taiwan’s UMC Opens $5 Billion Singapore Facility To Make AI, Automotive Chips

02.04.2025 20

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Philippine Billionaire Tony Tan Caktiong’s Jollibee Spending Record $366 Million For Global Expansion

30.03.2025 9

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Tycoon Andrew Tan’s Megaworld Spending $523 Million To Expand Philippine Office Portfolio

24.03.2025 10

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Thai Billionaire Family’s Central Pattana Earmarks $3.6 Billion To Build Offices, Malls

21.03.2025 7

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Singapore’s RRJ Leads $600 Million Investment Into Swiss Tycoon's Private Jet Company

18.03.2025 3

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Billionaire Anthoni Salim-Backed Philippine Water Utility To Raise Up To $858 Million From IPO

17.03.2025 3

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Philippines’ Ayala Land To Spend $500 Million To Expand Hotel Footprint Amid Tourism Boom

12.03.2025 6

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Philippine Billionaire Razon’s ICTSI Earmarks $580 Million On Expansion Amid Record Profit

07.03.2025 5

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A.P. Moller To Buy Stake In Philippine Billionaire Ayala Family’s Logistics Business

06.03.2025 8

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Microsoft-Backed HR Tech Unicorn Darwinbox Gets $140 Million From KKR,Partners Group

06.03.2025 10

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Qatar’s JTA May Invest $1 Billion In Vietnam’s Top Tycoon’s VinFast

05.03.2025 10

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Philippine Billionaire Sy Family’s SM Investments Sets $1 Billion Record Stock Buyback

01.03.2025 30

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Australian Billionaire Richard White Regains Control Of Software Firm WiseTech

26.02.2025 10

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Philippine Billionaire Sy Family’s SM Prime Earmarks $1.7 Billion To Expand Property Footprint

24.02.2025 9

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Singapore’s Olam Sells Agribusiness Unit To Saudi Fund In Deal Valued At $4 Billion

24.02.2025 20

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Top Philippine Noodle Maker Flags $126 Million Writedown For Alternative Meats Unit Quorn

20.02.2025 10

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Temasek-Backed Cuscaden To Delist Singapore’s Paragon In Deal Valuing Shopping Mall REIT At $2.1 Billion

11.02.2025 10

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Thai Billionaire Dhanin’s CP Group To Form $1 Billion Fund With Philippines’ Maharlika

10.02.2025 10

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Australian Billionaire Jack Cowin’s Domino’s Pizza Closing 205 Stores To Boost Profits

07.02.2025 10

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Billionaire Sy Family’s SM Prime Earmarks $568 Million To Expand Malls, Offices, Hotels

06.02.2025 10

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Jollibee Founder-Backed DoubleDragon To List Hotel101 On Nasdaq Via $2.3 Billion SPAC Deal

04.02.2025 7

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Philippine Tycoon Andrew Tan’s Emperador Buys Mezcal Distiller To Boost Spirits Business

03.02.2025 10

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Philippine Wealth Fund Buys Stake In Electricity Grid For $337 Million

28.01.2025 10

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Philippine Property Pioneer Filinvest Injects Shopping Mall Into REIT In $109 Million Deal

28.01.2025 10

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Billionaire Consunji Family’s Semirara Posts Record Coal Output Amid China Demand

15.01.2025 8

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Billionaire Anthoni Salim-Backed Company To Build $735 Million Singapore Hydrogen Power Plant

PacificLight's existing 800-megawatt gas-fired power plant in Singapore's Jurong Island industrial ... [ ] complex. PacificLight Power—a privately...

06.01.2025 7

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Philippine Billionaire Tony Tan Caktiong-Backed DoubleDragon Sees $8.5 Billion Sales By 2035

DoubleDragon chairman Edgar Sia II and co-chairman Tony Tan Caktiong at the groundbreaking ceermeony ... [ ] of Hotel101-Niseko in Auagust 2023....

13.12.2024 7

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Cash-Strapped Philippine Tycoon Ropes In Marcos’ Cousin To Finish Long-Delayed Cebu Casino Project

Gambling chips stacked around roulette at a casino gaming table. Tycoon Dennis Uy is roping in EEI Corp.—a construction company jointly owned by...

09.12.2024 5

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Billionaire Ramon Ang Doubles Down On Tourism Bet With Boracay Airport Project

The world famous powdery white sand beaches of Boracay Island in central Philippines. Billionaire Ramon Ang—the controlling shareholder of...

29.11.2024 6

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Billionaire Aboitiz Family Spreads Wings With Third Philippine Airport Concession

Aboitiz InfraCapital owns and operates the Mactan-Cebu International Airport. The infrastructure arm of the billionaire Aboitiz family’s Aboitiz...

28.11.2024 5

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Billionaire Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue Orders $400 Million Electric Mining Fleet

Andrew Forrest, chairman of Fortescue Metals Group Ltd., during a Bloomberg Television interview at ... [ ] the COP29 climate conference in Baku,...

27.11.2024 4

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Philippines’ Top Noodle Maker Downsizes Loss-Making Alternative Meats Business

Philippine-based Monde Nissin bought British alternative meats maker Quorn Foods in 2015. Monde Nissin—the largest Philippine maker of instant...

25.11.2024 10

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Billionaire Charoen’s Frasers Property, Sekisui House To Build Singapore Luxury Condo

The Frasers Place serviced apartment on Robertson Walk along Singapore River. ... [ ] Frasers Property—controlled by Thai billionaire Charoen...

19.11.2024 8

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Philippine Tycoon Joselito Campos, India Billionaire Sunil Mittal Revamp Del Monte India

Del Monte branded cans of pineapple chunks sit on a shelf in a grocery store in Manila, the ... [ ] Philippines. Philippine tycoon Joselito Campos...

17.11.2024 10

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Malaysian Billionaire Ananda Krishnan’s Bumi Armada In Merger Talks With MISC OffShore

A Bumi Armada floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) facility. Bumi Armada—an oil field services company backed by Malaysian tycoon...

15.11.2024 4

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Philippine Billionaire Gokongwei Family Pumps $293 Million Into Loss-Making Petrochemical Unit

JG Summit's petrochemical complex in Batangas, south of Manila. JG Summit Holdings—the flagship of billionaire Lance Gokongwei and his family—will...

14.11.2024 10

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Billionaire Salim’s PLDT In Talks To Sell Part Of $1 Billion Data Center Portfolio To CVC

Stacks of computer servers at a data center. PLDT—a unit of Indonesian billionaire Antoni Salim’s Hong Kong-based First Pacific—is in...

13.11.2024 30

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Billionaire Lucio Co Ventures Into Philippine Beer Market With Booze Purchase

Keepers is among the biggest distributors of wine and liquor in the Philippines. The Keepers Holdings—the spirits distributor founded by...

12.11.2024 5

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Philippine Billionaire Aboitiz Family’s Union Bank, ATR Form $8.3 Billion Trust Company

Union Bank of the Philippines’ corporate headquarters in Pasig City’s Ortigas financial district. Union Bank of the Philippines—controlled by the...

11.11.2024 4

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Billionaire Lim Kok Thay’s Genting Boosts Spending In Indonesian LNG Project To $1.3 Billion

A liquefied natural gas tanker passing by the Strait of Singapore. Malaysian casino billionaire Lim Kok Thay’s Genting is increasing its investment...

29.10.2024 4

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