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

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The exclusive takeover brings together two iconic Raffles properties for a celebration of craft, culture, and connection.
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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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Siam Paragon Bangkok Watch Week 2026 continues to build momentum with The Bureau of Wonders supporting its global PR efforts.
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Chinese Companies Prioritize Supply Chain Resilience, AI And New Markets For Growth

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DP World’s trade insights point to a clear shift among Chinese firms toward resilience, technology, and global expansion.
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Singapore Builds Nuclear Expertise Through Indonesia Deal

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Joint training, personnel exchanges, and technical meetings will now formalize what has long been informal cooperation between Singapore and Indonesia's nuclear regulators.
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Why Singapore’s Electricity Relief Will Wait Until Q4

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Even with a US-Iran ceasefire in place, EMA says Singapore's tariff relief will not arrive until Q4 2026 at the earliest, due to pricing lags.
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Cocoon Capital Backs Qashier Again In Series A+ Extension

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Cocoon Capital, IFP Securities and BlackSoil Global back Qashier's next phase of regional expansion.
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Hilton Brings NoMad To Asia-Pacific For The First Time

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Hilton moves NoMad Singapore's opening timeline forward to late 2026 amid strong construction progress.
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Waldorf Astoria Kuala Lumpur Enters A Crowded Luxury Corridor

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Hilton's Waldorf Astoria brand expands into Malaysia, entering direct competition with established luxury addresses across the KLCC and Bukit Bintang corridors.
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Fourteen Years Later, AirAsia X Tries London Again

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Bahrain is emerging as AirAsia X's bridge between Southeast Asia and Europe, starting with this new Gatwick route.
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AEON Credit Faces Fine For Sanctions Screening Lapse

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Malaysia's central bank says staff oversight gaps led to AEON Credit's sanctions compliance breach.
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Indonesia Moves To Regulate Financial Social Media Content

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Indonesia's new POJK No. 6 of 2026 puts financial institutions on the hook for what their influencer partners say.
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Geothermal And Solar Anchor New Indonesia Energy Drive

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Indonesia targets 5.15 GW of geothermal capacity by 2030 as new presidential-backed projects launch across the archipelago.
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MAS And ABS To Pilot PayNow-NETS QR Interoperability As Singapore Targets Seamless Merchant Payments

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Deep-linking in PayNow QR codes could soon streamline online checkout steps for Singapore consumers and merchants.
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HOSHINOYA Nara Prison Launches A New Conservation Model Linking Tourism Revenue To Heritage Preservation

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Each suite at HOSHINOYA Nara Prison combines nine to eleven former solitary confinement cells, starting at USD 233 per guest per night.
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Precision Over Volume: How COMO Hotels And Resorts Is Rethinking Luxury Distribution In Southeast Asia

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COMO Le Beauvallon on the French Riviera and COMO Cordeillan-Bages in Bordeaux are positioned to capture Thai demand for gastronomy, wine, and heritage travel.
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BPDPKS Subsidy Mechanics Under Strain As B50 Demand Exceeds 2026 Annual Allocation

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Indonesia's B50 mandate is projected to save IDR 157.28 trillion in foreign exchange in 2026, a 17.9% increase over the IDR 133.3 trillion saved under the B40 program in 2025.
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Tenaga Nasional Berhad Data Center Load Applications Exceed 11 GW Amid Nuclear Readiness Push

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Tenaga Nasional Berhad has received data center power applications exceeding 11 GW, more than 40% of Peninsular Malaysia's installed capacity, intensifying the search for firm baseload supply.
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Amazon Web Services Opens Hanoi Local Zone For Low-Latency Workloads

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AWS’s Hanoi Local Zone supports compute, storage, networking and selected services closer to end users. The launch gives financial-services operators another infrastructure option for digital products and regulated workloads.
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Clicx Bank Tests Thailand’s Appetite For Branchless Banking

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Clicx Bank enters the market backed by Krungthai Bank, Advanced Info Service and PTT Oil and Retail Business. The combination brings banking, telecoms and retail infrastructure into Thailand’s first virtual bank model.
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Stripe Payments Foundation Model Targets Fraud And Commerce Complexity In Asia-Pacific

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Stripe's AI Payments Foundation Model, trained on tens of billions of transactions, improved card testing attack detection by 64% in early deployment. AI is now embedded in the payment stack, not layered on top.
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Southeast Asia Freelancers And SMBs Face Infrastructure Shift As Payoneer Moves Under Nuvei

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Payoneer shareholders are set to receive USD 7.40 per share in cash, a 44% premium to the stock's unaffected price on June 8. The board approved. The strategic logic is clear.
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Japanese Fans’ World Cup Cleanup Wins Plaudits

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The cleanup activity showcased a culture of responsibility and respect that has become associated with Japanese football fans.
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Singapore’s Long-Stay Accommodation Market Gets Its First Ground-Up Co-Living Property In Serangoon

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From ice bath to infrared sauna: Mber's GYMber wellness facility signals where long-stay residential amenity design is heading in Singapore.
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Laos Endorses Japan’s POWERR Asia Framework Days Before Signing Russia Nuclear Pact

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POWERR Asia, launched April 15 at Japan's AZEC Plus Summit, commits approximately USD 10 billion to emergency and structural energy resilience across ASEAN and partner states including Laos.
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Russia Extends Nuclear Footprint In Southeast Asia With Laos Power Agreement

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Laos, which derives over 70% of electricity from hydropower, is now formally pursuing nuclear as a firm-baseload diversification option with Russian support.
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Vietnam’s Ninh Thuan 1 Agreement Marks Region’s Clearest Nuclear Commitment

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GE Vernova and Hitachi formalized their BWRX-300 push into Southeast Asia in March 2026. The 300 MWe SMR now has two governments publicly backing its regional market entry.
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Deel’s DLUSD Wallet Brings Stablecoin Payroll Infrastructure To Southeast Asia’s Contractor Workforce

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Deel now lets employers, employees, and contractors transact in stablecoins under a single global compliance framework.
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LexisNexis Risk Solutions: APAC Digital Finance Platforms Face Accelerating Deepfake And Bot Threat

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Generative AI scams surged 456% across APAC, turning deepfake fraud into a live operational risk for regional banks.
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From 4 Stars In 2023 To 11 In 2026: How Vietnam’s MICHELIN Trajectory Compares To The Region

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Ho Chi Minh City's Tales by Chapter joined the MICHELIN Green Star community in 2026, recognized for a zero-waste philosophy sourcing ingredients from an eco-farm in Da Lat and the restaurant's own rooftop garden.
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Laos Wind Project Becomes A Test Case For AI-Integrated Regional Energy Infrastructure

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Envision Energy moves from turbine supplier to integrated system operator on the Monsoon Wind site in southern Laos.
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Inside HiTHIUM’s Bid To Lead Vietnam’s Undersupplied Battery Storage Market

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Vietnam's Circular 62 created ASEAN's first two-part tariff for grid-scale storage. Suppliers are now responding.
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With Flow And OTL, Fireblocks Moves To Set The Standard For Institutional Stablecoin Commerce

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Flow handles wallet verification, sanctions screening, conversion, and reconciliation in one integration, no dedicated crypto team required.
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Airwallex’s Second Acquisition Of 2026 Deepens Its Case Against Fragmented Finance Stacks

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Finance teams managing multi-entity operations across Southeast Asia get one fewer vendor gap with this acquisition.
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MISC Wins FSRU Contract For Malaysia’s New Lumut Terminal

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MISC ordered a USD 330 million FSRU from Samsung Heavy Industries for the Lumut terminal, due February 2029.
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Indonesia Surpasses April Renewable Target But Coal Remains King Of The Grid In 2026

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Indonesia's renewable energy gains in 2026 are substantially driven by biodiesel blending in transport, not new grid-connected generation. The methodology shapes what the percentage actually means.
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Japan’s Takaichi Seeks Maritime Cooperation Among Island States

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The Japanese leader highlighted maritime cooperation as a key priority for countries that depend heavily on the marine environment.
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Neobanks, AI, And Digital Assets Drive Fintech’s Next Phase As BCG-FT Partners Report Finds Record Profitability

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Fintech now accounts for 4% of global financial services revenues as the regulatory gap with banks continues to narrow.
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Myanmar’s Upstream Bid Round: Geopolitical Barriers Shape Who Can Respond

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Publicly available details on specific blocks, timelines, and tender terms remain limited. The Global New Light of Myanmar is the primary source.
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BESS Monetization Critical To Unlocking Grid Flexibility In Southeast Asia: FESSIA Report

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With ASEAN’s storage market still underdeveloped, FESSIA is calling for clearer policies that can attract investment and improve project bankability.
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How Aspire Is Betting That Global Founders Need A Different Kind Of Business Bank

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Southeast Asian fintech is going west. Aspire's U.S. launch signals that the region's B2B platforms are ready for global competition.
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BBTF 2026 Draws 407 Buyers From 44 Countries As Bali Pushes Tourism Distribution Inland

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Bali drew 6.95 million visitors in 2025. BBTF 2026 is Indonesia's platform to spread that demand across 13 provinces.
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Indonesia Targets Energy Sovereignty Through Solar, But Tariff Gaps Block Private Capital

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Four years after launch, Indonesia's diesel replacement program has zero signed power purchase agreements.
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Eight Sailings, One Strategy For Visit Malaysia 2026

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Adora Mediterranea is a 2,680-passenger vessel formerly operated as Costa Mediterranea, now repositioned as a flagship of China's domestic cruise market since its rebranding in July 2024.
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The Race For Asia’s Skies: Why Hong Kong’s Terminal 2 Opening Is More Than An Infrastructure Story

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Fifteen airlines begin relocating check-in to HKIA Terminal 2, ahead of the 2026 summer travel peak.
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Inside SATS’s 27-Country Network And The Strategy Driving Its Cargo Volume Gains

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Despite Middle East flight disruptions cutting into Q4, SATS delivered its strongest full-year earnings in company history, demonstrating the resilience of diversified ground handling networks.
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Singapore-IEA Training Programme Turns 10 With 160 Officials From 23 Countries Focused On Subsea Cables

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Two priorities dominated the May 2026 edition: subsea interconnection governance and cross-border Renewable Energy Certificates trade frameworks for ASEAN.
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Tenaga Nasional Advances LTMS Regional Energy Trade Framework

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Malaysia's peninsular grid hit a record 21,049 MW peak demand in 2025, surpassing Energy Commission projections by more than 1,600 MW.
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From Models To Agents: Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen Conference Signals A Strategic Shift In Enterprise AI

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Alibaba Cloud's new Skills portal makes over 60 cloud products accessible to AI agents via MCP formats.
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Amazon Commits USD 33 Billion To Cloud And AI Infrastructure Across Four ASEAN Markets

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More than USD 64 billion in projected GDP contribution and 56,300 annual jobs in the data center supply chain. Amazon's Southeast Asia investment signals that hyperscale cloud is now core economic infrastructure, not just a technology layer.
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Thailand Frames LNG Crisis As An Accelerant For Solar Adoption

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Thailand's draft 2026 Power Development Plan targets renewables above 50 percent of total generation capacity.
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