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

DeepSeek Ordered 160,000 Huawei Chips. That Is Most of a Year's Output.

At the price reported two days ago the order runs to about $5.9bn — and to between 53 and 80 per cent of everything Huawei expects to build of that part in 2026.

13 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Business

Registered post pays about US$41 if it is lost, whatever was inside

The Universal Postal Convention caps compensation for a lost registered item at a flat 30 SDR — about US$41 — regardless of contents, and owes nothing at all for ordinary letter post. The clause says operators are not liable above that limit "even in case of severe fault".

13 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Business

The Memory Controls Did Not Stop China's AI Chips. They Made Them Dearer.

Huawei is asking 20 to 50 per cent more than in July. Nvidia, under no restriction at all, has signalled 15 per cent. The gap is what the policy costs.

12 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Business

Samsung and Meta cleared their hearing aids by pointing at Apple's

Apple's 2024 FDA authorisation was read as a competitive win. It created a new device classification instead — 21 CFR 874.3335, product code SCR — and every one of the four devices cleared in it since, including a pair of Meta smart glasses, named Apple's device as its predicate.

11 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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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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