Eva Chin writes for RECATOOLS on the practical side of running a household and a business in Southeast Asia: the arithmetic of a tropical home, Chinese naming and cultural practice, education and qualifications across the region, and the commercial decisions small businesses actually face. Coverage of cultural practice is educational — it explains what a tradition holds and where it came from, and does not make predictive claims.

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The Singapore skyline at night reflected in the water of Marina Bay.
Business

Grab's Profit Rose 54%. Its Biggest Profit Engine Got Slightly Worse

Grab reported record second-quarter results. On its own measure, the segment carrying most of the profit saw its margin decline.

5 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
Rack-mounted server blades lit blue and red inside a data centre cabinet.
Business

Vietnam Put a Vietnamese Language Model on Its List of Strategic Technologies

Decision 21/2026/QD-TTg names ten strategic technologies and thirty strategic products. One of them is large-scale Vietnamese language models.

4 Aug 2026 · 9 min read
Stacked shipping containers at a port under a bright sky
Business

The FCC Barred Imported Humanoid Robots on Security Grounds. Beijing Says It Will Retaliate

The restriction covers bipedal and quadruped machines and applies to new device models rather than units already in service. China calls it unilateral bullying, with a leaders' summit due in September.

3 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
One industrial structure whose two corridors diverge, the left rising into light and the right descending into shadow — illustrating one company's two divisions moving in opposite directions.
Business

Samsung's Chip Division Made a Record Profit. Its Phone Division Lost Money for the First Time. Same Quarter, Same Cause

The memory business set an all-time high while the handset division posted an operating loss. Both results come from the same thing: the price of memory.

1 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
A worn wooden approval stamp resting on a desk, lit low against a dark background.
Business

Naming a Company in Malaysia and Singapore: What SSM and ACRA Actually Accept

Your first three names get rejected and nobody explains why. Both registries run a mechanical test: they strip your name to a stem before comparing it, so suffixes, plurals, punctuation and adding your own country change nothing. This is what SSM and ACRA actually accept — the disregard lists side by side, the words that need a third agency's permission, why reserving a name is not being granted it, and why a trademark can unmake your company name while your registration protects you from nothing. Then the half no registry handles: your Chinese name, which is registered nowhere, and the stroke tradition most calculators — ours included until this week — have been computing with the wrong numbers.

29 Jul 2026 · 12 min read
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