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Senior Editor, Corporate Signals
Sarah Tan tracks the operational adjustments of Asian multinationals and regional leaders. She focuses on strategic partnerships, investment activities, and industrial realignments.
sarah.tan@asiabizreview.comAPISWA, MPWT, IBC, and AAC sign a landmark road safety memorandum of understanding, advancing Cambodia's 2030 safety goals. This article analyzes the deep impact of this cooperation on Cambodia's economy, logistics, and regional investment landscape.
Asian retail industry has massive video data but fails to fully utilize it. This article analyzes how to transform cameras from security tools into real-time operational intelligence centers to improve conversion rates and customer experience.
Singapore is no longer just a fintech hub; it is turning into a testing ground for digital financial infrastructure. Tokenization, cross-border payments, and large-scale application of AI are becoming key trends for 2026.
This article analyzes the structural transformation of industrial park investment promotion communication from image display to evidence-driven approach. Combining cases from Singapore, the Netherlands, Germany, and the Middle East, it explores the reconstruction path of investment promotion logic in the Asian market.
According to PwC's latest M&A outlook, the Asia-Pacific region is the only region expected to see growth in industrial and service transaction volumes by 2026, with India and Southeast Asia becoming major beneficiaries of manufacturing relocation and supply chain diversification.
Singapore's M&A market shows polarization: large deals drive up total value, but deal count falls to a decade-low. Private equity and AI infrastructure are the main drivers, reflecting capital's increasingly selective allocation.
This week, funding for South Korean AI startups shows that capital is shifting from consumer-level applications to industrial AI infrastructure, such as security, trade, healthcare, and clean technology. The government is also promoting industry alliances and international cooperation, marking a new phase for the South Korean AI ecosystem.
A KPMG report points out that although demand in the Southeast Asian medical technology market is strong, internal supply chain complexity and regulatory fragmentation may constrain growth. Enterprises need to redesign end-to-end supply chain visibility, distribution partnerships, and localization strategies, while regional coordination urgently needs to be deepened.
Singapore's retail sales show superficial growth but are actually driven by gas stations, with non-essential consumption weak. Analysis shows energy costs eroding residents' purchasing power, weakening ASEAN tourism demand, and the retail industry faces structural divergence.
The 2026 Asia Innovation Excellence Awards return, focusing on companies that create measurable impact through transformative innovation, reflecting the evolution of Asia's business innovation strategies.
ExecuJet’s rising workload at its new Kuala Lumpur facility may appear on the surface to be simply an improvement in a single company’s capacity utilization, but behind it lies a reflection of the expansion of Asia’s business aviation fleet, the repatriation of maintenance demand within the region, and the long-term shift toward localized delivery of high-net-worth travel and corporate aviation services.
Driven by demand for artificial intelligence chips, growth, investment, and wages in Taiwan and South Korea are rising in step. This boom, which appears to be concentrated in the semiconductor industry, is in fact reshaping patterns of consumption, public finances, and capital flows across East Asia, and may further affect the redistribution of supply chains in Asia.
Against the backdrop of accelerating competition in ASEAN manufacturing, supply chain restructuring, and the relocation of AI and electric vehicle industries, the Philippines faces not only cost pressures, but also a renewed test of its industrial positioning and execution capabilities.
The APEC Ministerial Meeting on Trade once again showed that China and the United States still have differing priorities on trade, rules, and the digital economy. For Asia, this means that trade friction has not disappeared; it has simply shifted from the surface of tariffs to a deeper contest over supply chains, digital rules, and industrial competition.