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China fines Trip.com $992m over online hotel-booking monopoly
South Korea President Lee hosts US tech summit, calls for new AI era
Singapore’s young workers cling to side hustles to survive the AI age: ‘it’s exhausting’
Putting the ‘K’ back in K-pop: how Rescene charmed South Korea
T3 signal expected between 1pm and 3pm on Saturday, classes to be suspended
Investment with Chinese characteristics: how Beijing’s money is reshaping tech ventures
Long before the Silk Road, silkworm cocoons already existed in Uzbekistan
Why Japan’s scenic Tohoku region is still a tourist outlier
Malaysia set to produce its first human vaccine from 2028
Chinese weight-loss trend of mixing tea with enemas sends many to hospital
Family office of Henderson Land boss to fast-track Central Asia green energy plans
Trump cites ‘white, male, Christian’ audit in Smithsonian disclaimer push
Indonesia’s Bali financial hub ‘a matter of survival’: economic tsar
Saudi strikes Houthi sites in Yemen as conflict flares
Amid Hormuz woes, China tests Central Asian land corridors to bypass maritime chokepoints
Nvidia, Palantir, Meta warn against ‘premature restrictions’ of open-weight models
No poaching, just ‘enticing environment’: Fukuoka, capital of Japan’s ‘Silicon Island’
From tech visas to ‘gold card’, scholarships: Fast track to working in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan
The great tech manhunt: East Asia’s billion-dollar race for ASEAN talent
South Korea’s hunt for 100,000 tech workers