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Raffles Grand Hotel d’Angkor And Raffles Makati Partner In Exclusive Bar Takeovers

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This collaboration shows how hospitality can create cultural connections through taste, storytelling, and shared guest experiences.
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Siam Piwat Appoints The Bureau Of Wonders As International Public Relations Consultant For Siam Paragon Bangkok Watch Week 2026

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The appointment reflects Siam Piwat’s aim to position Bangkok Watch Week 2026 as a world-class luxury event.
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Chinese Companies Prioritize Supply Chain Resilience, AI And New Markets For Growth

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Chinese companies are looking beyond disruption by investing in strategies that can strengthen growth over the long term.
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ASEAN Nuclear Cooperation Advances With New MOU

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The Singapore-Indonesia nuclear MOU builds on ASEANTOM, the regional network coordinating radiation protection and nuclear safety standards across Southeast Asia.
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EMA Confirms Steepest Quarterly Electricity Increase This Year

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Singapore generates 95 percent of its electricity from imported natural gas, leaving household bills tightly linked to Gulf supply disruptions.
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Profitability First: Inside Qashier’s Capital-Efficient Growth Story

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With annualised recurring revenue up 61 percent, Qashier is positioning for a future Series B round.
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Havana Meets Singapore At NoMad’s New Tropicana Club

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Eleven Madison Park alum Josh Harnden joins NoMad as global culinary director ahead of the Singapore opening.
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Waldorf Astoria’s Second Southeast Asian Address Takes Shape In Kuala Lumpur

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An 8,019-square-foot Waldorf Astoria Suite anchors the hotel's all-suite accommodation strategy in the heart of Kuala Lumpur.
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Bahrain’s New Role As Asia’s Gateway To Europe

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Gatwick welcomes its 15th Asian route as AirAsia X relaunches Kuala Lumpur service after a 2012 withdrawal.
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AEON Credit Fined Over Delayed Account Freeze

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AEON Credit has since strengthened SOPs and retrained staff after BNM's RM520,000 penalty.
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Indonesia Tightens Oversight Of Financial Information Providers

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OJK's new framework gives Indonesian regulators power to restrict platforms that mislead financial consumers online.
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Indonesia’s Renewable Mix Beats 2026 Target Early

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State utility PLN faces fresh scrutiny over procurement delays even as the government unveils a new wave of clean energy projects.
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PayNow Generation 2 Report Signals Singapore’s Ambition To Build Infrastructure For AI-Driven Commerce

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Singapore benchmarks PayNow Gen2 upgrades against eleven payment systems including India's UPI and Brazil's PIX.
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Hoshino Resorts Completes Seven-Year Conservation Project

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Adaptive reuse meets luxury hospitality: Hoshino Resorts preserved red-brick domes, radial corridors, and arched gateways while converting Nara Prison into its tenth HOSHINOYA flagship.
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Thailand’s Luxury Outbound Segment Draws Renewed Attention From COMO Hotels And Resorts

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The appointment of Jocelyn Whiteside as global director of sales for Thailand and Hong Kong formalizes COMO's deeper push into one of Asia's most sophisticated outbound luxury markets.
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Indonesia’s B50 Program Draws Global Interest As World’s First Mandatory 50 Percent Biofuel Blend

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The BPDPKS collected IDR 17.4 trillion in palm oil export levies from January to May 2026, approximately 64% of its annual target, with B50 expected to increase FAME demand beyond the original 2026 allocation.
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IAEA Milestones Approach Guides Malaysia’s Phased Nuclear Infrastructure Development

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The IAEA Milestones Approach guides Malaysia's phased nuclear preparation, covering legal frameworks, regulatory infrastructure, and public engagement before any deployment decision is finalised.
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Amazon Web Services Adds Local Data Residency Support In Vietnam

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Amazon Web Services says the Hanoi Local Zone supports single-digit millisecond latency for eligible applications. That matters for financial-services use cases where speed, resilience and user experience are operational priorities.
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Clicx Bank Brings Virtual Banking From Licence To Market In Thailand

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Thailand’s first operational virtual bank is now live. Clicx Bank’s debut creates a practical benchmark for regulators and incumbents assessing the future of digital-only banking.
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Stripe Sessions 2026 Brings 288 Products And An Agentic Commerce Bet To Asian Merchants

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Cross-border settlement still costs up to 6.8% of transaction value in traditional correspondent banking models. Stripe is positioning stablecoins as its solution to that cost problem across Southeast Asia and beyond.
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Payoneer’s Indonesia And Philippines Operations Gain New Scale Under Nuvei Acquisition

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Nuvei explicitly named agentic commerce and stablecoin payments as key use cases the Payoneer merger is designed to address. The next payments infrastructure layer is being built now.
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Japanese Fans’ World Cup Cleanup Wins Plaudits

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Fans of the Japanese national team received admiration for helping maintain cleanliness after the World Cup match.
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Community By Design: How Mber Co-Living Attempts To Engineer Belonging Into A Singapore Residential Building

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Purpose-built, not converted. Mber Co-Living & Serviced Apartments resets the benchmark for long-stay accommodation development in Singapore.
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Japan’s POWERR Asia Gains Lao Backing As Tokyo Deepens Mekong Energy Engagement

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JICA is co-developing an Integrated Energy Master Plan with Laos for 2030 to 2050, targeting a diversified generation mix that reduces the country's structural dependence on seasonal hydropower.
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Laos Targets Baseload Diversification With First Binding Nuclear Cooperation Deal

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Rosatom specified the first deliverable is a preliminary feasibility study covering plant configuration, reactor type, and potential siting regions in Laos.
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ADB Financing Shift Opens Multilateral Capital To Southeast Asian Nuclear Programs

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Indonesia is fielding proposals from Rosatom covering conventional reactors, SMRs, and floating nuclear power units. Geography and grid topology are shaping which technologies get traction.
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Deel And Stripe Complete End-To-End Stablecoin Payroll Infrastructure With DLUSD Contractor Wallet

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Deel completes its stablecoin infrastructure stack, connecting payroll funding, salary payouts, and contractor wallets on one platform.
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LexisNexis 2026 Cybercrime Report: Account Takeover Attacks Surge 216 Percent Globally, APAC Exposed

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The 2026 LexisNexis Cybercrime Report confirms fraud is scaling faster than the defenses protecting Southeast Asia's digital financial infrastructure.
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NOM In Ho Chi Minh City Wins Inaugural MICHELIN Opening Of The Year Award As Vietnam’s Dining Scene Matures

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Vietnam's Bib Gourmand list expanded to 72 establishments in 2026, adding 11 new venues across Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, and Da Nang that offer quality cooking at accessible prices.
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From Turbine Supplier To System Operator: Envision Energy’s Bet On Laos

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Laos' hydro-heavy power export model carries dry-season risk. Adding wind, solar, and storage at Monsoon is designed to reduce that structural exposure.
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From Policy Target To Market Entry: HiTHIUM Moves Into Vietnam’s Storage Frontier

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8-hour storage systems go where 2-hour systems cannot: overnight demand, multi-hour weather events, grid resilience.
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Fireblocks Flow And OTL: The Infrastructure Bet Behind Institutional Stablecoin Scale

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Asia leads global stablecoin adoption at 56% institutional live rate; Flow gives regional PSPs the infrastructure to capture that volume compliantly.
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Leapfin Founders Join Airwallex In Deal That Targets Multi-Entity Finance Complexity

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Airwallex Singapore posted 107% revenue growth in FY2025; the Leapfin acquisition signals a push into financial operations depth.
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Malaysia Builds Third Regasification Terminal As Domestic Output Declines

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Peninsular Malaysia's domestic gas output is declining. Analysts flagged 2029 as the year import demand exceeds current regasification capacity.
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Biodiesel Blending And Hydropower Drive Indonesia’s Renewable Progress

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Indonesia's acting Director General of Electricity told parliament this week that fossil fuels still require accelerated displacement. His ministry's own data showed the country exceeding its renewable target on the same day.
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Japan’s Takaichi Seeks Maritime Cooperation Among Island States

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Takaichi stressed that stronger partnerships are essential in addressing climate change and protecting marine resources.
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BCG And FT Partners Identify Southeast Asia As Key APAC Growth Driver In 2026 Global Fintech Benchmark Report

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Asia-Pacific led all global regions in fintech revenue growth in 2025, driven by digital banking and crypto trading across Southeast Asia.
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Myanmar’s Ministry Of Electricity And Energy Issues Open Call For International Oil And Gas Exploration

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The firms most likely to respond to Myanmar's tender are from China, Thailand, India, and Russia — not the sanctioning Western bloc.
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BESS Monetization Critical To Unlocking Grid Flexibility In Southeast Asia: FESSIA Report

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For the Philippines, BESS ancillary services could help lower system costs while opening major Solar plus BESS revenue opportunities by 2030.
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Aspire Brings Singapore-Built B2B Finance Platform To The United States

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From MAS licensing to SEC registration, Aspire has built one of the most extensive regulatory stacks among ASEAN-origin B2B fintechs.
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From Locavore NXT To National Strategy: How Indonesian Restaurants Are Reshaping Tourism Policy

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BBTF 2026 produced roughly 1,300 business appointments across 44 countries, building Indonesia's export-ready tourism product.
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PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara Faces A Procurement Problem At The Heart Of Indonesia’s Energy Transition

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Indonesia's 100 GW solar directive is six times larger than PLN's own decade-long grid expansion plan.
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China’s Cruise Reach Extends To Port Klang

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Itineraries range from two to five nights, with stops at Penang, Langkawi, Phuket, and Nha Trang, before a final repositioning voyage returns the ship to Guangzhou.
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Fifteen Airlines, One Terminal, One Summer Peak: HKIA’s T2 Transition Begins

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HKIA ranked eighth globally by international seats in 2025, well behind Dubai and Singapore Changi.
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SATS Posts Record Earnings Amid Geopolitical Turbulence, Raising Questions About Long-Haul Resilience

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With 225-plus stations across 27 countries, SATS handled 9.65 million tonnes of cargo in FY2026, covering routes accounting for more than half of global air cargo volume.
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A Decade Of ASEAN Grid Capacity Building: What 1,600 Energy Officials Have Been Trained To Build

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Six subsea power cable projects across ASEAN are currently at advanced stages of negotiation as the regional grid push accelerates.
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Tenaga Nasional Q1 FY2026: Earnings Dip Quarterly On Tax Normalisation

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Malaysia's data center electricity demand is projected to reach 12.9 GW by 2030, rising to 20.9 GW by 2040 per government estimates.
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Alibaba Cloud’s Singapore Launch Draws Institutional Backing

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Over 1,000 Singapore SMEs gain access to Qwen AI tools through a new NTUC and ST Telemedia partnership.
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Amazon’s Long Bet: USD 33 Billion In Southeast Asia Cloud Capacity

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Amazon trained 2.7 million people on cloud skills across Southeast Asia since 2017. The USD 33 billion investment announced this week adds physical infrastructure to that human capital base, with fintech as a primary beneficiary.
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Thailand’s PEA In Bank Talks For Green Loans

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Thailand expanded its rooftop solar buyback from 90 MW to 500 MW. Financing rates may prevent hitting that target.
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