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  • Signage of Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX) is pictured outside the company headquarters in Singapore on March 23, 2023. (Photo by Roslan RAHMAN / AFP) (Photo by ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP via Getty Images)Commentary

    Southeast Asian startups shouldn’t have to go to the U.S. for capital. Here’s how to help them raise money closer to home

    By Jenny Lee and Ng Yao Loong
  • Brian Kim, founder of Kakao Corp., center, arrives at the Financial Supervisory Service in Seoul, South Korea, on Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. South Korean authorities arrested Kakao Chief Investment Officer Bae Jae-hyun last week for alleged stock price manipulation connected to a high-profile bidding war over K-pop agency SM Entertainment Co. earlier this year. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    Founder of one of South Korea’s biggest internet companies indicted over K-pop stock-rigging scandal

    By Shinhye Kang, Jenny Lee, and others
  • SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – JUNE 18: Doctors participate in a rally against the government’s medical policy on June 18, 2024 in Seoul, South Korea. The Korean Medical Association (KMA) launched a one-day walkout involving medical professors at the “Big 5” hospitals in Seoul, as well as community doctors. The walkout is in support of trainee doctors who have remained off the job since February, in protest of the government’s medical school enrollment hike plan. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)Leadership

    20,000 doctors are walking off the job in South Korea to protest making it easier to get into medical school

    By Jenny Lee and Bloomberg
  • NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 06: Cardi B attends the 2024 Met Gala Celebrating “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)Finance

    Cardi B TikTok helps stock in South Korean maker of spicy instant noodles jump by 30%

    By Shinhye Kang, Jenny Lee, and others
  • A doctor holds a placard reading “Stop populist medical policy!” during a rally to protest against the government’s plan to raise the annual enrolment quota at medical schools, near the presidential office in Seoul on February 21, 2024. Pregnant women had C-sections cancelled and cancer treatments were postponed on February 21, as the number of South Korean trainee doctors to walk off the job over proposed reforms swelled, officials and local reports said. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP) (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images)Leadership

    Korean doctors are some of the best-paid in the world. Now many are refusing to work to protest plans to make it easier to attend medical school

    By Jenny Lee, Seyoon Kim, and others
  • GERMANY-IT-TELECOM-CONSUMERS-SHOW-IFATech

    Internet of Things means never having to search again

    By Jenny Lee and Hans Tung