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Luxury hotels need to have ‘a point of view’ to attract visitors hungry for experiences, says designer André Fu

Fu and Swire Hotels deputy chairman Toby Smith discuss design and ‘quiet luxury’ at Fortune Brainstorm Design.

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China’s ByteDance could be forced to sell TikTok U.S., but its quiet lead in AI will help it survive—and maybe even thrive

ByteDance, the owner of TikTok and target of Washington ire, operates China’s most popular chatbot, Doubao.

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Nintendo’s secret to becoming a design powerhouse? Developers who have stayed at the company for decades

“The people who first made Nintendo’s hits are still working at the company,” says Keza MacDonald, author of a forthcoming book about the company.

29.11.2025 1

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The year of the Labubu revealed the ‘new consumption’ trend among China’s Gen Z—and now it’s spreading overseas

Labubu has powered monster growth for Chinese toymaker Pop Mart and tapped into China's newfound branding power that could outlast the toy's...

27.11.2025 10

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China’s robots—from ‘factory brains’ to vacuums that can pick up your socks—are lapping the competition

Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.

26.11.2025 10

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A World Bank expert thinks countries should leverage ‘small AI’—and avoid competing with the biggest tech giants

Experts at the Fortune Innovation Forum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, last week were hopeful that smaller countries could invest in AI that works for...

24.11.2025 20

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Intrinsic, an Alphabet company, and Nvidia supplier Foxconn will join forces to deploy AI robots in the latter’s U.S. factories

Companies in the AI space are paying more attention to “physical AI,” or artificial intelligence that operates in the real world.

21.11.2025 5

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WeRide’s CEO pitches robotaxis as a solution to aging populations and long commutes, as the firm raises more money for R&D with a HK IPO

CEO Tony Han talks about Chinese investors, self-driving cars as social good, and why companies like Uber are turning to Chinese robotaxi partners.

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Trump takes center stage at APEC–yet Asia’s business leaders are optimistic that multilateralism will prevail

Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.

03.11.2025 10

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In a world of crypto and ‘exotic instruments’, traditional exchanges are thinking about how they ‘stay relevant’

At the Fortune Global Forum in Riyadh, exchange heads trade notes about uncertainty, new competition, and Labubu.

29.10.2025 2

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Coach is winning over Chinese consumers with ‘American design,’ says CEO Todd Kahn

Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.

21.10.2025 10

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DBS CEO Tan Su Shan’s one big lesson for getting through Trump’s tariffs: ‘Diversify’

DBS CEO Tan Su Shan says the tariffs are bringing together once-estranged trading partners.

16.10.2025 3

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Tan Su Shan, CEO of Southeast Asia’s largest bank, is Fortune’s most powerful woman in Asia for 2025

DBS's new CEO is No. 1 on Fortune's second-ever Most Powerful Women Asia ranking, among a finance- and tech-heavy top five.

07.10.2025 30

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Openness to foreign talent could help non-U.S. tech hubs in Europe and Asia: ‘Wherever is more open still has a chance to win the next cycle’

“Silicon Valley will remain very pro-immigrant,” Notable Capital managing partner Hans Tung said at Fortune Brainstorm Tech last week.

17.09.2025 3

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Nvidia shares drop, China tech surges as Beijing tries to push homegrown AI chips

China's top internet regulator has reportedly asked tech firms to stop using Nvidia's chips, deeming that local alternatives are good enough to...

17.09.2025 3

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Architects are turning into ‘conductors’, using AI to mock up designs—and get clients on board faster

AI is letting design firms create sketches and renders more quickly, allowing architects to enrich their pitches with more imagery and video.

17.09.2025 3

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‘Better put some chips down or you’re going to miss out’: U.S. tech is riding fears about rising global conflict

“There’s a ton of money being poured into defense from venture capitalists right now,” said Steve Simoni, founder of Allen Control Systems.

12.09.2025 4

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Jobs of the future will require the ‘cognitive skills’ AI hasn’t mastered, says Accenture’s chief AI officer

"Communication skills, being empathetic...these are the cognitive skills that AI is not doing quite well yet," says Lan Guan, Accenture's chief AI...

02.09.2025 5

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Nvidia still isn’t sure if it can sell chips to China, threatening access to what CEO Jensen Huang calls a $50 billion opportunity

The U.S has yet to formally notify Nvidia that it will get export licenses in exchange for a 15% cut of revenue.

28.08.2025 5

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China’s economic data is famously unreliable—and could be a warning if Trump meddles with the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Beijing “is really intolerant of economic instability, and so everything gets smoothed,” Derek Scissors of the American Enterprise Institute says.

22.08.2025 4

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Nvidia and AMD’s ‘special treatment’ from Trump is shaking up an already tangled global chip supply chain

“If Nvidia and AMD are given special treatment…why shouldn't other companies be doing the same?” says one expert.

16.08.2025 20

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U.S.-China chip war: How Trump’s Nvidia-AMD deal has redefined Washington’s export control policy

One dismayed Democratic lawmaker said the move signals to China “that American national security principles are negotiable for the right fee."

14.08.2025 20

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OpenAI’s open source pivot shows how U.S. tech is trying to catch up to China’s AI boom

DeepSeek's AI models are still influencing the AI conversation, even eight months later.

11.08.2025 10

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Yum China’s sales keep growing, but a fierce food delivery price war may be weighing on investor sentiment

Yum China's HK-traded shares are down about 3% since Tuesday, even as the KFC and Pizza Hut operator posted 4% year-on-year revenue growth last...

08.08.2025 10

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‘We want to be patient’: Southeast Asia’s venture investors are excited about AI–but less excited about the region

Southeast Asia should be an attractive home for tech startups. But investors in the region say the ecosystem is still coming together.

29.07.2025 10

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Ping An wants to turn China’s demographic crisis into an opportunity to showcase a ‘silver future’

The population in China is getting older—and wealthier, better educated, and more skilled. The company sees it as a business opportunity.

29.07.2025 10

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Big banks can ‘afford to be a little behind the curve’ on AI, and let smaller startups make riskier bets

“I don’t think we should be at the cutting edge of innovation around AI as a big bank," said Craig Corte, an executive at Standard Chartered.

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The CEO of Southeast Asia’s largest bank knows even her job is at risk from AI

“If I can be replaced by AI, so can everything else!”

23.07.2025 4

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Cheaper AI like China’s DeepSeek are ‘very welcome,’ says Singapore’s digital minister Josephine Teo

AI that’s been trained on English, and not one of Southeast Asia’s hundreds of different languages, “will perhaps not meet the requirements of...

22.07.2025 3

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Cybercrime is big business in Asia, and AI could be about to make things worse

Asia's "mobile-first market" makes it easier for scammers to make a direct connection to their victims.

14.07.2025 10

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‘Massive’ investment in R&D leads China’s Honor to launch world’s thinnest foldable phone

Foldables represent a small but rapidly expanding segment of the Chinese smartphone market. Sales in this category grew by 27% last year.

03.07.2025 4

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Singapore VC Granite Asia leads $60 million funding round for AI ‘data foundry’ Centific to fuel global expansion

“This funding round isn’t about necessity—it’s about ambition,” CEO Venkat Rangapuram said in a statement.

25.06.2025 10

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Asian executives are ‘worried about productivity’—and the solution may be giving young workers more say in how things are done

Asian firms can no longer hire their way out of a productivity slump. “There are no more people,” Simon Tate, Workday's Asia president, says.

20.06.2025 4

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What Southeast Asia’s largest companies say about a region in flux

Total revenue on the Southeast Asia 500 grew by almost 2% last year—but Trump trade policy could unwind those gains.

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Why reviving U.S. tech manufacturing is harder than you think

Trump’s wrecking ball to global trade has already proved too fast and too disruptive to encourage companies like Apple to quickly move their...

16.06.2025 6

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Markets stay in a holding pattern as world awaits more Trump trade news

Japan’s Nikkei 225 fell 0.5%, as Japan embarks on a new round of trade negotiations with the U.S. ahead of a G7 summit in Canada.

05.06.2025 10

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Nintendo’s Switch 2 could breathe new life into the video game giant—if Trump’s trade war doesn’t upend it all

Nintendo's comeback moment meets geopolitical headwinds.

05.06.2025 5

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Markets shrug off doubled U.S. steel tariffs and Trump complaints of Xi being ‘hard to make a deal with’

“I like President Xi of China...but he is very tough, and extremely hard to make a deal with!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

04.06.2025 30

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Stock markets dip as Beijing blasts Trump’s ‘bogus charges’ that it’s violating the Geneva trade agreement

The U.S. and China are accusing each other of undermining an uneasy truce in their trade.

02.06.2025 20

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Malaysia’s prime minister thinks AI may need to operate independently of national sovereignty—much like how embassies work today

On Wednesday, Malaysia PM Anwar Ibrahim suggested the idea of national sovereignty may be slightly out of date in the AI age.

28.05.2025 10

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Beijing’s No. 2 wants companies to ‘fully share’ in China’s development as he joins ASEAN and GCC leaders in first-ever summit

“China stands ready … to embrace greater openness and cooperation,” Premier Li Qiang said at Fortune’s ASEAN-GCC-China Economic Forum in Kuala Lumpur.

28.05.2025 4

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Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim calls for a ‘fiercely independent ASEAN’ as he bolsters ties with the Middle East and China

Malaysia's prime minister also defended Beijing, which took part in diplomatic summits in the country this week: “China is an important neighbor of...

27.05.2025 10

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Tesla supplier CATL, the world’s leading battery maker, to start trading in HK after a bumper $4.6 billion IPO

CATL is foraying into global markets amid growing trade tensions between the U.S. and China, which have sent markets careening over the past several...

19.05.2025 10

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The threat to kick China out of U.S. exchanges is growing, and Hong Kong stands to benefit

Delisting worries have grown since late February, when President Donald Trump revived the threat of kicking Chinese companies off U.S. exchanges.

10.05.2025 30

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Nio is facing heavy competition in China’s fierce EV market. Making key design decisions ‘within hours’ could help it break through

To keep ahead of the competition, “design really has to be leading edge, always looking forward, very progressive," says Kris Tomasson, Nio's VP of...

03.05.2025 10

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Trump’s tariffs are shaking up elections in Australia, Singapore and South Korea

Who's voting, what issues are driving voters on the ground—and how each country is handling a more protectionist, more volatile U.S.

30.04.2025 10

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Microsoft says Asia’s climb up the value chain—from ‘made in’ to ‘created in’—will make it a hub for AI adoption

“We are consuming more AI than the rest of the world,” Microsoft Asia president Rodrigo Kede Lima notes. “The region is ahead on AI.”

29.04.2025 50

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Toss founder Lee Seung-gun—onetime dentist, now Korea’s fintech maven—talks superapps, ‘rubbish ideas’, and IPO plans ‘in the near future’

Lee Seung-gun's fintech platform Toss now boasts a userbase equal to more than half of South Korea's population.

23.04.2025 10

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Geopolitics helps drive Middle Eastern money to Asia as wealthy Gulf investors hedge their bets

The Middle East missed Asia's rise the first time around. They don't want to miss out again.

21.04.2025 10

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China has options: The U.S. may be more dependent on trade with Asia than President Trump realizes

Also: Fed’s Powell issues warning, U.S. stocks slide, again.

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