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Beijing, 16 August 2026 – Affluent county-level economies are emerging as pockets of consumer strength while China’s wider domestic-demand recovery remains uneven. Industrial clusters, entrepreneurship and improving services…
Singapore, 16 August 2026 – Singapore has raised its 2026 economic growth forecast to 4.5%–5.5% after stronger first-half activity, with artificial-intelligence demand supporting electronics, precision engineering and trade-related…
Tokyo, 16 August 2026 – Japan’s strategy debate increasingly links credible deterrence with economic renewal. Security capacity depends on a productive economy, while investment confidence benefits from a…
Hong Kong, 16 August 2026 – Hong Kong’s Northern Metropolis University Town has expanded beyond 1,000 hectares, with 19 proposals from local institutions and phased tendering and development…
Singapore, 16 August 2026 – More than 40 investors face potential exposure of up to S$4 million after Nozomii Vending’s founder Lim Jian Bin was declared bankrupt on…
Jakarta, 15 August 2026 – Indonesia’s headline growth rate has reached its strongest pace in 13 years, but the composition of expansion and evidence from jobs, inequality and…
Beijing, 15 August 2026 – China has lodged stern diplomatic protests with Japan after Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi visited the controversial Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo and Prime…
Tokyo, 15 August 2026 – Japan’s defence minister, Shinjiro Koizumi, visited Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine on the anniversary of the country’s 1945 surrender, reviving a recurring diplomatic fault line…
Singapore, 15 August 2026 – Singapore’s civil defence authorities have introduced a new ambulance that can be rapidly reconfigured to carry as many as two patients, expanding operational…
Tokyo, 14 August 2026 – Brookfield is entering Japan’s housing market through a US$627 million transaction covering assets in four urban centres, expanding the global investment group’s exposure…
