Markets, business, and economic intelligence for Southeast Asia
SOUTHEAST ASIA EDITIONTechnology deals, platforms, and the companies reshaping how business gets done.
With fewer people left alive who remember World War Two firsthand, educators in Japan are turning to an unlikely tool to keep the memory alive, having schoolchildren recreate the prewar streets of Tokyo's Bunkyo ward in Minecraft before it was destroyed in the Great Tokyo Air Raid of 1945.
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Google has set up its first formal country office in Pakistan, framing the move as support for the country's IT export ambitions. Industry watchers see a different motive, a tech giant positioning itself early in a digital market that is still small today but growing fast.
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Votee AI, led by founder and chief executive Pak Sun Ting, is building large language models tuned specifically for Cantonese, a language spoken by more than 80 million people that most AI labs have treated as an afterthought behind English and Mandarin.
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China's most valuable company grew second-quarter sales 11 percent to 204.8 billion yuan, ahead of forecasts, and the reason is exactly the one the market has been demanding proof of. Tencent is turning artificial intelligence into advertising revenue faster than expected, and that has implications well beyond China.
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Squeezed by a saturated consumer electronics market, a growing set of Taiwanese component makers is chasing growth in satellites, space computers, and optics. It is a bet that the island's manufacturing muscle can be redeployed above the atmosphere, and it carries a strategic edge that pure commerce does not explain.
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The Trump administration floated banning Chinese open-weight AI models, and Nvidia and its Silicon Valley peers objected before Beijing even did. Their argument is not sentiment. American developers have quietly come to depend on those models, and cutting them off would hit US growth and chip demand at a nervous moment.
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