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Eco World Development Group’s first residential project in Singapore will test whether buyers will pay enough to support attractive margins after a costly land acquisition.
China is making intelligent connected new-energy vehicles a central part of its next industrial upgrade, with a government plan spanning 2026 to 2030.
SoftBank Group is reportedly exploring more than US$11 billion of high-yield bond issuance as it deepens its artificial-intelligence investments.
Digital wealth platform Syfe has surpassed S$20 billion in assets under management, a scale milestone supported by investment and trading activity across several markets.
Seatrium has allocated S$200 million to a new share-buyback programme, twice the size of the S$100 million programme it completed at the start of September.
Sea has told Singapore-based employees that MariBank will become the salary-crediting bank for its October payroll, placing a related digital bank at the centre of an internal payment policy. The instruction has drawn questions about employee choice and how far a corporate group should go in directing staff toward an affiliated financial product.
The United States, Japan and South Korea have launched a new economic-security consultation, bringing industrial policy and supply-chain resilience closer to the centre of their diplomatic agenda. Their foreign ministers met on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly and agreed to coordinate more closely against economic coercion, disruptive export restrictions and policies they say create harmful overcapacity.
Thailand’s weekly arrivals rose 5.72% as Malaysian and Japanese holiday travel lifted short-haul demand, although the year-to-date total remained lower.
A Shanghai vehicle-to-grid exercise shows privately owned electric cars can support peak demand, advancing China’s distributed-energy opportunity.
The yuan reached its strongest level in more than three and a half years as China allowed greater appreciation ahead of the Trump-Xi summit.
