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In 2019, the global trading system imposed 55 discriminatory trade policies on companies operating inside it. By 2024, that figure...

Chinese-backed operators hold 58.4% of Johor's data centre capacity. Washington's AI chip Affiliates Rule returns in November 2026. Malaysia's non-aligned...

TNB has signed 7,100 MW of data centre electricity agreements and holds applications beyond 11,000 MW. Malaysia's water regulator has...

RM342 billion in approved digital investments. Second-largest developing-economy destination for digital FDI in the world, behind only India. The numbers...

Indonesia built Danantara to fix its governance credibility problem. The MSCI crisis has revealed the paradox: the fund's borrowing capacity...

While markets fixate on Indonesia's MSCI deadline, two compounding crises are running simultaneously - a budget haemorrhaging IDR 6.7 trillion...

On 27 January 2026, MSCI gave Indonesia four months to fix its markets or face demotion. Regulators moved fast. A...

Southeast Asia's corporate disposal cycle was already building before oil hit USD 100. The Hormuz shock has added a new...

When oil hit USD 100, Southeast Asia's CFOs were already managing three simultaneous capital pressures: a structural shift to all-cash...

The Strait of Hormuz was not closed by missiles alone. It was closed by the withdrawal of a piece of...