Thailand's Floods Shut Four Toyota Plants. The Government Asked Thai Airways Not to Stop Cargo.
Missing parts idled Toyota's factories and absent staff stalled Bangkok's main airport. The airline announced a week-lon...
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Bitget Lost About $388 Million From Its Hot Wallets and Says Its Reserve Fund Will Pay
The exchange traces the break-in to a flaw in a third-party security product. Its CEO pointed to North Korea; its incide...
Thailand's Deficit With China Reached $62.7 Billion as Its US Surplus Grew to $45.5 Billion
Commerce ministry figures for January to August show both gaps widening. Telecom equipment tops the list of goods behind...
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Indonesia's DOKU Becomes 'DOKU by Antom' and Makes Its Co-Founder Chief Executive
Himelda Renuat also heads Antom Indonesia. Ant International's payments arm says its investment has deepened but gives n...
Bank Indonesia Holds at 5.75% in Destry Damayanti's First Meeting as Governor
Indonesia's central bank kept rates unchanged under its new leadership. The rupiah is near 17,855, credit is outrunning...
Jollibee Sold 11 Per Cent of Highlands Coffee, Giving the Founder Majority Control
The buyer is the founder's own company, which rises to 51 per cent. The price values the Vietnamese chain at about US$80...
Indonesia and Hong Kong Talk QR Payments That Bypass the Dollar
The memorandum is exploratory, with no timetable and no pilot. What it actually rests on appears in the Indonesian repor...
Vietnam Got Its FTSE Upgrade and the VN-Index Fell
Index funds must now hold Vietnamese stocks, and the weight arrives in four steps to September 2027. Vanguard talks of 2...
Ultrajaya Buys Frisian Flag and Loses Control of Itself
A Rp14.57 trillion share issue hands FrieslandCampina the largest single holding in the company buying its Indonesian da...
A Korean Chipmaker Lost $9.3m in Vietnam. That Was the Small Problem.
The subsidiary reported a net loss of KRW85.7 billion on KRW174 billion of revenue, and the parent injected capital two...
Singapore Welcomed Waymo and Capped How Fast It Can Deploy
The transport minister counted the jobs it would create. His own road authority said driverless cars will not arrive fas...
Grab Paid $1.49bn for a Lending Business It Chose Not to Build
The cash is only half the arrangement. What the remaining 40 per cent will cost has already been fixed by a formula, flo...
Ant International's 89.5% AI Adoption Claim Has No Audit
The adoption figures are precise to a decimal place and every one is the company's own. The headline product is an accou...
SBI Group Anchors the Final Round of dtcpay's US$25 Million Series A
Japan's SBI Group takes a position in a licensed Singapore stablecoin payments firm. Volume, merchants, revenue and valu...
Costa Rica Joins the Digital Trade Pact Singapore Started
The fifth party to DEPA, and the second to accede. Six applicants remain outside, including China, whose process opened...
VinFast Is Buying Its Founder's Property Company for $1.2 Billion
The filing says the price is at a discount to an independent valuation. It does not name the valuer, publish the valuati...
Temasek's Xora Led $53m Into Four-Month-Old Consultancy Hang Ten
Hang Ten has raised $85m since May and employs about 25 people. The bet is that enterprise AI is now held back by delive...
ByteDance's Half-Year Revenue Rose 30% to $120bn. Profit Fell to $20bn.
The gap is AI infrastructure, reportedly about $23bn this year. No filing sits behind any of these numbers, because the...
Bending Spoons Is Buying Miro for $1.355bn. Its Record Is Steep Staff Cuts.
Miro runs at about $600m in recurring revenue. After previous acquisitions the Milan company cut 75 per cent of WeTransf...
OpenAI Closed ChatGPT Ads to Image and Voice Rivals. Video Is Open, for Now.
Adobe learned through its account team that Firefly can no longer be advertised in ChatGPT. The two categories closed ar...
Positron Raised $875m to Build Inference Chips Around Laptop Memory
The Asimov chip uses LPDDR5X instead of the high-bandwidth memory everyone is short of. The argument is that a GPU waste...
OpenAI Postpones Its Listing, and the Reason Given Is Safety
Altman says going public now would be ill-advised and that alignment work comes first. Anthropic is expected to start ma...
The Pentagon May Lend $5bn for Data-Centre Parts, Not Data Centres
The Office of Strategic Capital would be making its largest single loan, aimed at the component bottleneck rather than t...
CXMT Took a Tenth of the DRAM Market. It Has No HBM to Sell.
Real relief for server and phone memory, and none at all for the shortage raising AI accelerator prices. The incumbents'...
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