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China clamps down on high-speed traders, removing servers
The move shows that officials are focused on levelling the playing field for investors and ensuring market stability
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Hyundai Motor Group to appoint former head of Tesla's humanoid robot program as adviser
SEOUL, Jan 16 : South Korea's Hyundai Motor Group said on Friday it plans to appoint Milan Kovac, the former head of Tesla's humanoid robot program, as an adviser as it seeks to bolster its competitiveness in robotics and artificial intelligence. The auto group also plans to nominate Kovac ...
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‘People laughed at us’: Naysayers blew them off – then this underdog built Asia’s first cross-border wind farm
Goh Ruoxue - Impact Electrons Siam is now selling electricity to Vietnam. Next stop: Asean?
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K-pop, Chinese games to drive Asia tech sector growth: Macquarie
Young Zhan Heng - Baidu, Tencent are among the research firm’s top 2026 Asian tech picks
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Vietnam takes first leap into chip fabrication with Viettel-led fab
Jamille Tran - The new plant is expected to begin pilot production of semiconductors by end-2027
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Italy investigates Microsoft's sales practices for 'Call of Duty' and 'Diablo' video games
MILAN, Jan 16 : Italy's competition watchdog on Friday announced investigations into Microsoft's Activision Blizzard unit over allegedly "misleading and aggressive" sales practices for video games "Diablo Immortal" and "Call of Duty Mobile".The watchdog, which ...
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Italy probes Microsoft's unit over sale practices for 'Call of Duty' and 'Diablo' video games
MILAN, Jan 16 : Italy's competition authority on Friday said it had opened two investigations on Microsoft's Activision Blizzard unit over allegedly "misleading and aggressive" sale practices for video games "Diablo Immortal" and "Call of Duty Mobile".The regu ...
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US lifts import ban on Malaysian palm oil firm FGV Holdings
The company had taken sufficient action to address allegations of forced labour
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Exclusive-TikTok to tighten age checks in Europe as regulators ramp up pressure
STOCKHOLM, Jan 16 - TikTok will start rolling out new age-detection technology across Europe in the coming weeks, it told Reuters on Friday, as the ByteDance-owned platform faces regulatory pressure to better identify and remove accounts belonging to children under 13.The previously unreported syste ...
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TikTok to tighten age checks in Europe as regulators ramp up pressure
STOCKHOLM: TikTok will start rolling out new age-detection technology across Europe in the coming weeks, it told Reuters on Friday (Jan 16), as the ByteDance-owned platform faces regulatory pressure to better identify and remove accounts belonging to children under 13.The previously unreported syste ...
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Malaysia’s Genting Plantations pays 396 billion rupiah fine to Indonesia amid Jakarta’s land enforcement crackdown
Elisa Valenta - The development comes as Indonesia continues to tighten scrutiny of land use
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Cartier owner Richemont’s sales boosted by high-end jewellery demand
Group also supported by improving China conditions as it sees 11 per cent quarterly sales increase.
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Obesity is ballooning – and office life can make it worse
Low Youjin - Workplace routines can encourage unhealthy eating habits and sedentary behaviour
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Why Fed chair Jerome Powell had to say no
History makes a strong case for central bank independence
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Morning Bid: How much more yen jawboning before intervention?
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Rae WeeMarkets were set to end the week on a high on Friday as the artificial intelligence trade regained momentum, but more crucially for investors, attention will be on the yen and whether Tokyo could soon step in to prop up its currency. ...
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TSMC eyes smaller tech gap between US and Taiwan chipmaking fabs
The company is accelerating the buildout of its capacity in Arizona due to strong demand
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BBC to strike content deal with YouTube, FT reports
Jan 16 : The BBC plans to produce programmes for YouTube for the first time, marking a major strategic shift as it seeks to recapture audiences moving to U.S. tech platforms, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing several people close to the talks. The shows, created specifically for YouTube ...
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Vietnam targets $5.5 billion in foreign loans for 2026 to boost infrastructure development
HANOI, Jan 16 : Vietnam plans to secure $5.5 billion in foreign loans in 2026 as it seeks to speed up the construction of large-scale national infrastructure projects and tackle persistent bottlenecks in the disbursement of development finance, its government said on Friday.Last month, the Southeast ...
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China warns of ‘penalties’ against carmakers for price war
Other than slashing prices, some automakers have offered incentives such as interest-free loans to entice buyers
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Beijing warns carmakers as price war escalates
Despite the regulatory warning, a new price war has broken out
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Forward guidance – Why it matters and how to get it right
Tan Boon Gin and Michael Tang - Investors do not just focus on a company’s past performance; they buy into its future. In a market where confidence drives capital, forward guidance – the practice of sharing credible statements about future performance and strategy – matters more than ever. Singapore’s stock market is gaini ...
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Anthropic appoints Microsoft veteran Irina Ghose as India MD
BENGALURU, Jan 16 - Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic has appointed former Microsoft executive Irina Ghose as its managing director for India, the company said on Friday.Ghose served as managing director for Microsoft's India business, a role she held for two years before leaving the c ...
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Prudential Financial's Japan life unit CEO to resign after widespread staff misconduct
TOKYO, Jan 16 : The CEO of Prudential Financial's Japan life insurance unit will resign following revelations of misconduct by about 100 of its employees totalling roughly 3.1 billion yen ($19.60 million), including embezzlement of funds, the Japanese company said on Friday.The diversified U.S. ...
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Will the third tranche of EQDP asset managers be at a disadvantage?
Felicia Tan - The Straits Times Index (STI), at a new record, is expected to climb further. For years, a return to the 4,000-point mark was a silent hope, and the 5,000 mark was practically a fantasy. With the index now above 4,800, this 5,000 milestone is within reach, as overall optimism grew after the market r ...
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Data centres: Do investors know what they’re getting into?
Goola Warden - According to a recent report by Moody’s Ratings, at least US$3 trillion ($3.8 trillion) is expected to be invested in data centre-related projects over the next five years, covering servers, computing equipment, data centre facilities, and new power capacity. Unlike commercial property, the land o ...
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Homecoming listings will prove MAS measures have succeeded, says fund manager
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan - Crowding in third-party capital, drawing homecoming listings and lifting equity valuations to keep pace with Asean and the Nasdaq. For fund managers under the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) Equity Market Development Programme (EQDP), these will be the clearest signs that efforts to revive ...
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Japan’s Katayama says all options open on yen, including joint action with US
[TOKYO] Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said on Friday Tokyo would not rule out any options to counter excessive foreign exchange volatility,...
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Trump moves to make tech giants pay for surging power costs
The grid operator serves more than 67 million people from the Mid-Atlantic to the Midwest
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Market review measures ‘won’t hurt’ — but how much will it help?
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan and Samantha Chiew - Yeo Wee Yong, an associate professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS)’s finance department, still remembers how hot the Singapore stock market was when he was studying at NUS in the 1990s. “Everyone in my class was trading, and we would discuss our trades in class — ‘I made $200 ...
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Malaysia's economy grew 5.7% on year in Q4 2025, official advance estimate shows
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 16 : Malaysia's economy grew 5.7 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2025 from a year earlier, official advance estimates showed on Friday, its fastest pace in more than a year.Growth in the October-to-December period was faster than the 5.2 per cent expansion in the third quar ...
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Malaysia economic growth hits 4.9% in 2025, beating forecasts, advance estimate shows
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 16 : Malaysia's economy likely expanded 4.9 per cent in 2025, beating the government and central bank's projections, as growth in the final quarter of the year surged on strong performances in key sectors and robust domestic demand.Gross domestic product grew 5.7 per cent ...
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CGSI lifts Soilbuild’s target price; keeps FY2025 order win assumption of $530 mil
Felicia Tan - Soilbuild Construction Group is likely to have an order book of $1 billion by the end of FY2026, say CGS International (CGSI) analysts Lim Siew Khee and Then Wan Lin. The analysts have kept their “add” call on the group after hosting the latter at its Singapore Value-Up Conference in Kuala Lumpu ...
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Micro-digital income is reshaping work patterns across Asean
More than a technological fad, this trend marks a shift in work culture and could reshape the labour market in Singapore and...
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Toku aims to be the Salesforce of customer experience software, says founder and CEO
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan - While most tech founders and CEOs might have cut their teeth studying computer science or competing at hackathons, Toku founder and CEO Thomas Laboulle had a different start. Following his father’s and grandfather’s footsteps, he entered the workforce by joining the Belgian military where he ser ...