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KEY TAKEAWAYS The Deal That Wasn’t: A Merger Conceived in Ambition, Rejected on Valuation Picture the scenario that Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah presented to Kuala Lumpur’s...
On a Saturday morning at the edge of Ipoh’s old racecourse, the air smells of Ipoh white coffee, damp timber, and something else — something harder...
The US-Iran conflict of 2026 crashed oil markets, froze the Strait of Hormuz, and pushed developing nations from Pakistan to Egypt toward economic collapse. A deep...
“WHY are there so few exits in South-east Asia?” This is a fair and increasingly common question from limited partners in venture capital (VC). With disappointing...
The Meeting That Signals More Than Courtesy When Chinese Ambassador Jiang Zaidong called on Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif at the Prime Minister’s House in Islamabad...
In the early 1980s, something extraordinary was happening in rural China. Incomes were surging. Families who had known only collective poverty under Mao Zedong’s commune system...
The shipment arrived at Changi before dawn — sixteen pallets of PAMP Suisse bars, crated and heat-sealed in Zurich, routed through a cargo carrier that had...
Indonesia’s manufacturers face a double blow: a Middle East energy shock closing the Strait of Hormuz and a deepening domestic gas crunch forcing factories to run...
Beijing’s export-control probe into Meta’s acquisition of the agentic AI startup is the sharpest test yet of who owns the talent and technology produced by China’s...
The city-state’s leader heads to “Asian Davos” as US-China rivalry reshapes every calculation in the Indo-Pacific Every March, the small coastal town of Boao in China’s...