Asia in Focus

Asian banks extended more than USD 17 billion to Gulf borrowers in 2025, a record. The Iran conflict froze much...

AirAsia plans to cut Q3 capacity by 20%-25%, then restore it to pre-war levels in Q4. The plan works if...

AirAsia's Q2 2026 foreign exchange loss ran to MYR 331.0 million, nearly 40% of its total net loss. Fuel was...

Jet fuel hit USD 183 a barrel in Q2 2026. AirAsia lost MYR 830.5 million, Cebu Pacific PHP 5.5 billion,...

Malaysia’s data-centre boom is attracting billions of dollars of debt, but the next test will not come when the buildings...

Four companies beat expectations in the same 13-day window in July 2026. All four were sold off anyway. This is...

The Proof Gap Trade showed why the market is punishing AI capex it cannot verify. Three data-backed signals, drawn from...

Chip stocks lost USD 1.3 trillion in a week despite record earnings. Four research houses say enterprise AI still cannot...

Vietnam's registered FDI jumps 58% to $38.1 billion, Indonesia and the EU target Q4 signing for their long-delayed trade pact,...

On 6 May 2026, FATF said Singapore's results needed to be sharper. Its answer: widen COSMIC, the cross-bank data-sharing platform....