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Who are Asia’s main arms exporters? – The diplomat

By Frank M. EverettMay 22, 2026

The world is a more dangerous place than ever. At least that’s what most governments seem to believe, given the…

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Gulf energy crisis reveals Southeast Asia’s renewable energy dilemma – The Diplomat

By Frank M. EverettMay 13, 2026

A surge in global fuel prices following disruptions around the Strait of Hormuz has revealed how Southeast Asia still relies…

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Pakistan’s growing role in West Asia’s changing geopolitical landscape – The Diplomat

By Frank M. EverettMay 8, 2026

In 2021, after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, Pakistan was sidelined in major international capitals and seen as a desperate…

Technology

Google announces partnership with Sea to develop AI tools for Sea’s Shopee, Southeast Asia’s most dominant e-commerce platform, and Garena, Sea’s gaming unit (Stanley Widianto/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 21, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: OpenAI’s $100B Funding Round, OpenClaw Acquisition, AI Productivity Question — With Aaron Levie The Big…

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Report: Private financing for Southeast Asia’s digital economy grew 15% year-on-year, behind global growth of 25%, to $7.7 billion in the 12 months to June 2025, 70% below the 2021 peak of $27 billion (Jun Yuan Yong/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 11, 2025

Jun Yuan Yong / Reuters: Report: Private financing for Southeast Asia’s digital economy grew 15% year-on-year, behind global growth of…

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Several of Asia’s biggest tycoons and conglomerates are joining the data center race as tech giants plan $240 billion in large-scale expansion in APAC over the next five years (Jonathan Burgos/Forbes)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 8, 2025

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: OpenAI bailout?, Elon’s $1 trillion payment deal, Amazon continues perplexity The Big Technology Podcast takes…

Families of Tiananmen victims barred from visiting graves on anniversary – Radio Free Asia

Moscow’s new military partner has something Russia needs more than its allies – The Diplomat

How Japan is gradually rebalancing its foreign policy – The Diplomat

2026 was a crazy year for Southeast Asian stock markets – The Diplomat

Vietnam’s quiet strategy during the Shangri-La dialogue – The Diplomat

Ulta Beauty (ULTA) First Quarter 2026 Results

Markets in ‘greed’ mode as AI companies prepare for IPOs

Victoria’s Secret (VSXY) Q1 2026 Results

Prices of Audemars Piguet watches stable after collaboration with Swatch

McDonald’s MCD unveils its growth strategy

Trump’s ballroom is dead and his battleships may be sunk

Massive defeat for Trump as his militarization fund dies

Democrats figured out how to kill Trump’s weapons fund

It’s time for the 25th Amendment as Trump thinks the latest dementia screening was an intelligence test

Interior Secretary Breaks Down and Admits Trump Is Stealing America’s 250th Birthday

Bitcoin fell as much as 7% over 24 hours to fall below $67,000 on Tuesday for the first time since April, following Strategy’s first BTC sale since 2022; MSTR fell 9% (Bloomberg)

a CoreWeave-linked data center raised $900 million via five-year junk bonds, priced at par for a 7.5% yield, as the industry increasingly shifts to high-yield bonds (Gowri Gurumurthy/Bloomberg)

Microsoft launches MAI-Thinking-1, its first advanced reasoning model, trained “from scratch on clean data, without distillation of third-party models” (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Internal position: Guy Rosen, Meta’s chief information security officer who previously oversaw Meta’s election integrity work, will leave in the coming months (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

Meta Expands Teen Account Safety Features to Limit Harmful Content on Instagram, Facebook and Messenger, including Nutrition, Weightlifting and Anxiety (Eli Tan/New York Times)

Browsing: Asias

Who are Asia’s main arms exporters? – The diplomat

Gulf energy crisis reveals Southeast Asia’s renewable energy dilemma – The Diplomat

Pakistan’s growing role in West Asia’s changing geopolitical landscape – The Diplomat

Google announces partnership with Sea to develop AI tools for Sea’s Shopee, Southeast Asia’s most dominant e-commerce platform, and Garena, Sea’s gaming unit (Stanley Widianto/Reuters)

Report: Private financing for Southeast Asia’s digital economy grew 15% year-on-year, behind global growth of 25%, to $7.7 billion in the 12 months to June 2025, 70% below the 2021 peak of $27 billion (Jun Yuan Yong/Reuters)

Several of Asia’s biggest tycoons and conglomerates are joining the data center race as tech giants plan $240 billion in large-scale expansion in APAC over the next five years (Jonathan Burgos/Forbes)