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    Asia is one of the world’s least insured places, even as it’s battered by climate change and natural disasters

    Asia is one of the world’s least insured places, even as it’s battered by climate change and natural disasters

    Total losses from natural disasters across Asia-Pacific last year totaled $73 billion, yet just $9 billion was insured, according to Munich Re.

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    January 30, 2026

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    Russia’s war in Ukraine has turned South Korea into a manufacturing hotspot as it makes weapons faster and cheaper than the U.S.
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    Russia’s war in Ukraine has turned South Korea into a manufacturing hotspot as it makes weapons faster and cheaper than the U.S.

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    Cathay Pacific trainee pilots have damaged so many planes a U.S. flying school has banned them from solo flights
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    Cathay Pacific trainee pilots have damaged so many planes a U.S. flying school has banned them from solo flights

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    Singapore carves out a space in the chip supply chain with a new $7.8 billion plant from Europe’s NXP and a TSMC-backed manufacturer

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    A stray comment from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was enough to give Samsung’s shares a boost
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    A stray comment from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was enough to give Samsung’s shares a boost

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    UAE leader meets with Taliban official who faces a $10 million U.S. bounty over attack that killed an American citizen

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    United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby wants a new competitor to Airbus and Boeing—but think it’s ‘unlikely’ China’s COMAC fills the gap
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    United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby wants a new competitor to Airbus and Boeing—but think it’s ‘unlikely’ China’s COMAC fills the gap

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    Indonesia wants to start moving civil servants to its still-under-construction capital Nusantara by September. The city’s top officials just resigned
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    Indonesia wants to start moving civil servants to its still-under-construction capital Nusantara by September. The city’s top officials just resigned

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    Toyota halts sales of 3 cars after submitting faulty data during pedestrian-safety tests: ‘We apologize to our customers and all automotive enthusiasts’
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    Toyota halts sales of 3 cars after submitting faulty data during pedestrian-safety tests: ‘We apologize to our customers and all automotive enthusiasts’

    By Nicholas Takahashi, Supriya Singh and Bloomberg
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    Nobel laureate Paul Krugman agrees Beijing is making too much stuff: ‘The world will not accept everything China wants to export’
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    Nobel laureate Paul Krugman agrees Beijing is making too much stuff: ‘The world will not accept everything China wants to export’

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    China posts a surprise factory slowdown as Beijing tries everything from cut-rate mortgages to ‘cash for clunkers’ to get consumers to spend more
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    China posts a surprise factory slowdown as Beijing tries everything from cut-rate mortgages to ‘cash for clunkers’ to get consumers to spend more

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    Google promises $2 billion investment in Malaysia as Big Tech splurges on Southeast Asia spending
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    Google promises $2 billion investment in Malaysia as Big Tech splurges on Southeast Asia spending

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    Southeast Asia gets hit by the dealmaking slump, with a 39% drop in private equity deal value in 2023
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    Southeast Asia gets hit by the dealmaking slump, with a 39% drop in private equity deal value in 2023

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    Malaysia’s prime minister touts the country as a ‘neutral and non-aligned’ home for chip companies amid U.S.-China tensions
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    Malaysia’s prime minister touts the country as a ‘neutral and non-aligned’ home for chip companies amid U.S.-China tensions

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    China is ‘doubling down’ on local chip development with a new $47.5 billion fund: ‘The size of the fundraising speaks for itself’
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    China is ‘doubling down’ on local chip development with a new $47.5 billion fund: ‘The size of the fundraising speaks for itself’

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    Asia needs better education and social safety nets to grow rich as aging and AI threaten livelihoods, UN says
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    Asia needs better education and social safety nets to grow rich as aging and AI threaten livelihoods, UN says

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    A Chinese conglomerate loses control of its elite European soccer team, as Beijing fails to dominate the world’s favorite sport
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    A Chinese conglomerate loses control of its elite European soccer team, as Beijing fails to dominate the world’s favorite sport

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    An influencer known as ‘China’s Kim Kardashian’ is kicked off social media after Beijing imposes rules against showing off a ‘lavish lifestyle’

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    Beijing answers Biden’s CHIPS Act with the $47.5 billion Big Fund III—China’s largest-ever semiconductor investment fund
    Finance

    Beijing answers Biden’s CHIPS Act with the $47.5 billion Big Fund III—China’s largest-ever semiconductor investment fund

    By Gao Yuan and Bloomberg
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    8-person State Department team known as ‘The Firm’ aids countries when China cuts off trade: ‘We run a consulting firm that does not have to advertise’
    Finance

    8-person State Department team known as ‘The Firm’ aids countries when China cuts off trade: ‘We run a consulting firm that does not have to advertise’

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    Tesla CEO Elon Musk rejects Biden’s ‘not good’ tariffs on Chinese EVs: ‘Neither Tesla nor I asked for these tariffs’
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    Tesla CEO Elon Musk rejects Biden’s ‘not good’ tariffs on Chinese EVs: ‘Neither Tesla nor I asked for these tariffs’

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    France lost control of parts of New Caledonia so Macron is visiting to call for a ‘return to peace’ in world’s third-largest producer of critical EV metal nickel
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    France lost control of parts of New Caledonia so Macron is visiting to call for a ‘return to peace’ in world’s third-largest producer of critical EV metal nickel

    By Ben Westcott, Clara Ferreira Marques and Bloomberg
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    Taylor Swift performing on stage in Singapore.
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    Taylor Swift and Coldplay concerts may have saved Singapore’s economy from shrinking last quarter

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    Thailand welcomes home 2 illegally trafficked 1,000-year-old statues returned by New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art
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    Thailand welcomes home 2 illegally trafficked 1,000-year-old statues returned by New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art

    By Jerry Harmer and The Associated Press
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    The race to lead China’s AI sector heats up as ByteDance, Alibaba and Baidu offer their models at rock-bottom prices
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    The race to lead China’s AI sector heats up as ByteDance, Alibaba and Baidu offer their models at rock-bottom prices

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    China’s $10,000 BYD Seagull hatchback EV is coming for Europe’s carmakers in 2025
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    Apple slashes iPhone prices in China for the second time this year as local competition pressures its sales
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    Apple slashes iPhone prices in China for the second time this year as local competition pressures its sales

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    Samsung replaces semiconductor boss after it falls behind in critical AI chip market in ‘desperate attempt to inject new energy and fresh thinking’
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    Samsung replaces semiconductor boss after it falls behind in critical AI chip market in ‘desperate attempt to inject new energy and fresh thinking’

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    Chinese state media hints that Beijing might ‘hit back’ against European probes by targeting wine, dairy and aircraft
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    Chinese state media hints that Beijing might ‘hit back’ against European probes by targeting wine, dairy and aircraft

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    Beijing is spending $42 billion to save its slumping real estate sector. Analysts say it’s nowhere near enough
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    Beijing is spending $42 billion to save its slumping real estate sector. Analysts say it’s nowhere near enough

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