Asia

Bangladesh Votes in High-Stakes Elections to Decide Its Future

AI, Investment

SoftBank Vision Fund Has Gained $2.4 Billion as OpenAI Bet Pays Off

AI, Investment

Zhipu’s 30% Jump Shows Investors are Buying Into China’s AI Push

ByteDance, TikTok’s Parent Company, Is Developing AI Chips in Collaboration with Samsung Electronics

AI

Alibaba Wants Robots to See, Think, and Move Because “Physical AI” is Unstoppable

Taiwan Wants the U.S. to Understand That Relocating Chip Supply Chain is “Impossible”

Greece, India Sign Defense Industry Co-operation Pact

India, Malaysia Pledge to Deepen Trade and Defence Ties

Health, Healthcare

Bangladesh Records a Nipah Death. Why Does the Virus Keep Resurfacing?

Investment

Mukesh Ambani Wants You to Choose Stocks Over Gold

India Cements Trade Ties Across Four Continents With Five Major Agreements

Finance

Apple Records Impressive Financial Growth in Q1 as iPhone Sales Rebound in China, India

Health, Healthcare

Nipah Virus Cases in India Prompt Heightened Screening Across Asia

Health, Healthcare

The Nipah Virus Is Spreading, and So is Growing Concern over Another ‘Global Pandemic’

Business

EU and India Seal Landmark Free Trade Agreement After Two Decades of Talks

AI

Strong Investments in AI Infrastructure Cause AI-Related Stocks to Surge in China

Taiwan Invests $250 Billion as the U.S. Ramps up Local Manufacturing of Semiconductors

AI

China Wants to Investigate Meta’s $2 Billion Acquisition of AI Startup Manus

Infrastructure

TSMC Begins Mass Production of ‘Most Advanced’ 2nm Chips

AI, ArtificialIntelligence

Why Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Is Acquiring Singaporean AI Startup Manus

Finance, Funding

Chemonics-Backed Higala Closes US$4mn Seed Round as Platform Prepares to Transform Digital Payments in the Philippines