Eva Chin writes for RECATOOLS on business and commerce in Southeast Asia: the commercial decisions small businesses actually face, and the markets and regulation around them. She also covers Chinese naming and cultural practice, education and qualifications across the region, and the arithmetic of a tropical home. 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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Business

California's AI Audit Law Is in Force and Binds Nobody Until 2029

AB 1405 creates a registry of AI auditors and bans unregistered ones. Both obligations start 1 January 2029, which is three and a half years of nothing.

11 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
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Business

Malaysia says an e-invoice needs 55 fields; its own appendix marks 20 optional

The tax authority's guideline states that 55 data fields are required to issue an e-invoice. The appendix listing those 55 marks 20 of them [Optional] — including Quantity and Measurement, so a valid Malaysian tax e-invoice need not say how many of anything was sold. The unconditional count is 32, and the quoted figure is 72% high.

9 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Business

China Plans 9,800 Exaflops by 2030. That Is Slower Than Last Year.

The MIIT five-year plan targets 9,800 exaflops by 2030, up from 2,185 at FP16 in June. That implies about 40 per cent annual growth, against 177 per cent in the year to that point.

9 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Business

Atoms Denies Building Robotaxis. It Confirms Uber May Use Its Technology for Ridesharing.

The FT says Kalanick's company is building robotaxi tech; Atoms calls itself an industrial software business. Both can be true, and the denial addresses the label rather than the activity.

8 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Business

NHTSA Is Auditing Tesla's Cybercab Certification. Zoox Took Four Years and an Exemption.

Audit query AQ26002 opened the day the Cybercab began carrying passengers. It does not investigate a crash — it asks Tesla to justify certifying a car with no steering wheel against standards written for one.

5 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
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Business

Tesla's Cybercab Is Carrying Passengers in Austin, With 45 Vehicles Authorised

Tesla is carrying paying passengers in a two-seater with no steering wheel. The launch was a closed event with no livestream, confirmed afterwards by a website update.

4 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
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Business

Equinix's Inference Exchange Arrives in Q1 2027, With No Price Attached

Inference Exchange pairs Nvidia reference architectures with Together AI across Equinix data centres. No price, no launch markets and no committed capacity have been published.

4 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Business

The G20's AI Accord Is Non-Binding, and Two of Its Three Asks Take a Side

All twenty endorsed the Carolina Principles at Chapel Hill. Sector-specific rules, no new regulatory bodies, closer work with industry. Leaders adopt in December.

4 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Chinese Culture

Half the pronunciation changes people argued about had already happened

The viral lists of Chinese readings the ministry supposedly changed trace to a 2016 draft that was never issued. But the draft is a two-column table with a note saying a blank right column means no change — so you can check entry by entry. Two of the most-quoted examples have blank right columns: they have been the rule since 1985.

4 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Chinese Culture

Taiwan's passport rules name no romanisation system at all

The received account is that Taiwan uses Wade-Giles, or 通用拼音, or has moved to Hanyu Pinyin. Article 14 of the passport enforcement rules names none of them. It fixes a script and a source pronunciation and stops there — so the schemes people observe come from a ministry conversion tool rather than from law, and Macau's statutory table is the exact structural opposite.

4 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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