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‘Big Dawgs’ Hitmaker Hanumankind Set For April 2026 Asia Tour, Including Hong Kong

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With momentum from “Big Dawgs,” Hanumankind delivers a tour that highlights his evolving global influence.
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HSBC’s 20,000-Role AI Review Signals Structural Shift Across Global Banking

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Bloomberg Intelligence projects global banks could cut 200,000 jobs over the next three to five years as AI scales across compliance and operations.
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From Product Sales To Life Cycle Banking: HLB Islamic Charts New Direction In Malaysia

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Kevin Lam described the rebrand as a deliberate step to scale HLB Islamic into a primary growth engine for Hong Leong Financial Group.
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Peak Energy And Stonepeak Position Singapore Rooftop Platform For Long-Term VPPA Contracting At Scale

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Maiora is redirecting its development focus to Taiwan and the Philippines after exiting Singapore. The company sees stronger portfolio growth potential in those markets than in further consolidating a rooftop platform it has operated for over a decade.
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Thailand’s Data Center Sector Waits On DPPA Rollout Frozen By Election Transition

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Bhumjaithai's Sophon Saram was elected House Speaker on March 15 with 289 votes. The prime ministerial vote and cabinet formation are expected within days, unlocking the NEPC quorum needed for energy policy approvals.
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Grab Holdings 2025 Annual Report Reveals USD 500 Million Buyback Alongside First Profitable Year

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GXS Bank and GX Bank ended 2025 with USD 1.6 billion in combined customer deposits, a new record.
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Vietnam’s Biofuel Plants Running Below Capacity When The Country Needs Them Most

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Vietnam can produce about 40 percent of the ethanol needed for full E10 blending. The rest must be imported from non-Hormuz supply chains.
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Southeast Asia’s Structural Refinery Exposure Amplifies Global Supply Shock Beyond Crude Price Headlines

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Most Southeast Asian refineries are configured for Middle East medium-sour crude. They cannot easily switch grades, compressing diesel and jet fuel output simultaneously.
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Myanmar Warns Against Diesel Hoarding As LNG Deliveries Sustain Industrial Zone Supply

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Myanmar's daily power demand is 4,664 MW. Current generation covers roughly 3,600 MW. LNG fills a critical part of that gap.
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Asian Bond Futures At SGX Signal Singapore’s Bid To Anchor Regional Rate Risk Management

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Asian local currency bond markets exceeded US$25 trillion in 2024 with limited hedging tools. SGX's upcoming futures contracts aim to close that infrastructure gap.
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Japan And Indonesia Expand Strategic Energy Partnership At IPEM 2026

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Indonesia formalizes Japan as a strategic minerals partner, linking its resource wealth to clean energy development.
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Japan And Indonesia Expand Strategic Energy Partnership At IPEM 2026

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Indonesia formalizes Japan as a strategic minerals partner, linking its resource wealth to clean energy development.
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How Landlocked Laos Became Southeast Asia’s Most Exposed Economy In The Hormuz Supply Shock

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Laos is the Battery of Southeast Asia, exporting hydropower to Thailand. Yet it cannot refine a single litre of fuel for its own vehicles.
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New Bird Species Found In Japan For First Time In 45 Years

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The Tokara Islands continue to be an important area for ecological research.
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Timo Acquisition Signals Kredivo Group’s Shift From Credit Specialist To Regional Digital Bank

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ASEAN fintech M&A is accelerating as regional players pursue licensed banking infrastructure to scale cross-border financial services.
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How 2C2P’s Airline Payment Stack Is Positioning Sun PhuQuoc Airways For Multi-Market Digital Commerce

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Payment orchestration for airlines in Southeast Asia remains a specialized, competitive space. 2C2P continues to consolidate its position.
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From Tax Cuts To EV Mandates: Laos Deploys Multi-Layer Policy Response To March 2026 Fuel Supply Shock

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Laos entered March 2026 with inflation already at 6.2% and limited foreign reserves. A 50% diesel price surge in six days tests the outer limits of subsidy-based price stabilization.
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Indonesia Targets 500 MW Of Nuclear Power By 2033 As Japan Offers Technology Transfer And Export Credit Financing

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The Legok Nangka waste-to-energy plant and Sarulla geothermal project remain active under AZEC. The March 15 MoC adds nuclear to a bilateral energy agenda that already spans geothermal, LNG, coal, and critical minerals.
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How British Airways Is Rebuilding Its Australia Network Through Southeast Asia

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British Airways’ Melbourne routing mirrors a Gulf-bypass strategy increasingly adopted across European long-haul aviation.
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Why Constant Stimulation Is The Invisible Tax On Your Thinking

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A mind that is never allowed to rest is a mind that never gets to strategy. Most people are too busy processing input
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From Bridge To Bottleneck: How The Gulf’s Aviation Collapse Has Redirected The World’s Longest Flight Corridors

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Flight Centre in Australia reported a 75% surge in calls as customers scrambled to rebook via Singapore, China, and Houston. The demand shock triggered by the Gulf crisis is moving through the system fast and the ripple effects are only beginning.
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Cathay Pacific Exits Dubai And Riyadh As Asia-Pacific Carriers Rebalance Their Middle East Exposure

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Cathay Pacific has suspended remaining passenger services to Dubai and Riyadh. That decision, coming after years of gradual Middle East retrenchment, effectively positions Hong Kong as another non-Gulf gateway for Asia–Europe traffic at the precise moment that role is in highest demand.
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Mastercard Targets China’s Cross-Border Payment Gap One Day After Its APAC SME Suite Launch

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Mastercard Move now covers cards, digital wallets, and bank accounts in China, giving payment providers a single platform for cross-border flows into and out of the country.
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Inside DBS SecureFX: The Rate-Locking Tool Now Available To All Singapore Corporate

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83% of SMEs in DBS's latest Business Pulse Check Survey plan to internationalise in 2026. SecureFX is the tool DBS is using to support that ambition.
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Cherry Trees Begin To Blossom In Japan This Season

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Sakura season begins as cherry trees start flowering in various parts of the country.
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From Brazil To Singapore: EBANX Formalizes Its APAC Regulatory Footprint With MPI License

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With clients including AliExpress, Canva, and Gravity Game Vision, EBANX's Singapore headquarters will serve as a regulatory and product center for its global cross-border payments network.
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The June Price Cliff: How A Three-Month Contract Lag Delivers A Second LNG Cost Wave To Asia

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Sam Reynolds of IEEFA: repeated shocks "refute the case for relying on imported fossil fuels." The argument for domestic renewables has never been easier to make—or harder to fund quickly enough.
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Why The IEA’s Oil Bazooka Left LNG-Dependent Southeast Asia Without A Safety Net

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IEA Director Birol was clear: reserves buy time, but the only real fix is ships moving through the Strait again.
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How Cape EMS Is Positioning Itself At The Intersection Of Industrial Energy Demand And Malaysia’s NETR Agenda

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From EV charger assembly to EV charging infrastructure mapping, Cape EMS's evolution under CEB 2.0 reflects a broader pattern among Malaysian manufacturers repositioning along the clean energy value chain rather than competing purely on contract assembly economics.
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Approaching The 1998 Low: Bank Indonesia Holds Rates As Rupiah Tests Crisis-Era Levels

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For Southeast Asian investors, Bank Indonesia's pivot from easing to stability anchoring is a reference point for the broader regional rate outlook. Indonesia is the canary in the emerging market coal mine on the Iran war's monetary policy consequences.
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Japan Starts Releasing Oil Reserves

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Officials said the reserve release is meant to stabilize supply amid ongoing geopolitical developments.
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How The Kredivo-Timo Deal Reshapes Digital Banking Competition In Southeast Asia

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The Kredivo-Timo deal sends a clear message: in Southeast Asia’s next fintech chapter, regional players are acquiring licenses, not building around them.
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From Rural Bank To Thrift Bank: Salmon Bank’s Capital Strategy Takes Shape In 2026

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The PHP 400 million injection into Salmon Bank is not just a capital event. It is the opening move in a broader licensing and product expansion strategy for 2026.
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Brazil-Founded EBANX Makes Singapore The Center Of Its Asia-Pacific Payments Strategy

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For payments platforms targeting emerging markets, Singapore remains the region’s preferred regulatory anchor. EBANX’s new HQ is the latest confirmation of that trend.
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Malampaya Operator Calls For Structural Gas Policy Fix Over Temporary Tax Suspensions

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The Philippines generates 62% of its electricity from coal, with over 80% of that coal imported, meaning grid price exposure to global commodity markets extends well beyond the current LNG crisis.
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GE Vernova And Evn Sign HVDC Memorandum Of Understanding As Vietnam Moves From Planning To Execution

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The Energy of Change Summit on March 10 covered generation equipment, grid infrastructure, and technology cooperation across three distinct layers of Vietnam's power transition, all in a single announcement.
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From Market Mechanism To State Intervention: Vietnam’s Shifting Fuel Price Architecture In March 2026

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Vietnam's domestic diesel price moved up sharply on March 7, then down again on March 11 through stabilisation fund deployment. That volatility, managed by state tools, is the real texture of operating inside a global supply shock.
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Thunes Consolidates Leadership As It Eyes Us Market Entry And Stablecoin Rail Integration

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Two C-suite hires in one announcement signals Thunes is entering a distinct operational phase tied to US expansion.
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Zetrix AI And IFC To Develop Blockchain Identity And Trade Systems For ASEAN Markets

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Digital identity, trade digitisation, and real-world asset tokenisation are central to Zetrix AI's IFC-backed roadmap.
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From Custody To Clearing: Singapore Gulf Bank’s Digital Asset Infrastructure Strategy Takes Shape

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SGB Net's 92.64% average monthly growth rate signals strong demand for regulated digital asset banking infrastructure in Asia.
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ShopeePay Gains Access To 150 Million Global Merchants Through Single Alipay+ Integration

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Cross-border QR is no longer just a central bank project. ShopeePay and Alipay+ prove the private sector can move faster.
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How Sunway Healthcare Plans To Nearly Double Bed Capacity By 2032 Using IPO Capital

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GIC's stake drops from 16% to 7.5% post-listing. Sunway City retains 69.5%. The controlled free float of 17.1% is a deliberate structural choice, consistent with large-cap debut strategy in the region.
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South Korea Tops Vietnam FDI Rankings For January-February 2026

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South Korea leads Vietnam's FDI inflows at 37.8% of newly registered capital, followed closely by Singapore at 31.1%.
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Singapore’s Energy Security Architecture Under Scrutiny After Qatar Shock

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Replacement LNG cargoes exist, but only at spot prices that have already doubled since February.
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The 2026 Energy Stress Test: When A Weather Forecast And A War Arrive At The Same Time

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Below-normal rainfall through May shrinks hydropower availability across the Mekong at the worst possible time.
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DBS Joins OCBC And UOB In Enforcing Mandatory Delays For Digital Banking Changes

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Phishing losses in Singapore jumped 134 percent year on year in H1 2025. DBS Bank's 12-hour delay targets the exact window scammers exploit to move funds before victims can react.
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Luxembourg And Asian Development Bank Unite To Channel Capital Into Southeast Asia Fintechs

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NextFin Asia accepts applications from pre-seed to Series A. Eligible sectors include digital payments, SME finance, InsurTech, AgriTech, RegTech, and climate finance across ASEAN.
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Bank Indonesia Consolidates Payment System Rules Under Single Regulatory Framework Effective March 31

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Indonesia moves from three provider tiers to two. Under PBI 10/2025, payment system service providers are now either Primary or Non-Primary, and the difference determines how closely Bank Indonesia watches you.
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Thailand And Myanmar Introduce Energy-Saving Measures As Fuel Shortages Emerge

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Fuel price increases tied to geopolitical tensions are prompting policy responses across Asia’s energy-importing economies.
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KKR And Singtel Advance Acquisition Of ST Telemedia Global Data Centres

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Singapore Telecommunications’ involvement in the transaction signals continued strategic positioning around global data-center infrastructure growth.
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