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Companies look to AI to enable financial resilience amid global volatility: DBS survey
[SINGAPORE] Businesses around the world are rethinking long-term strategies as volatility rises, with generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) tools of particular interest, based on the findings of a global...
mm2 Asia evaluating all available options, including winding up Cathay Cineplexes
[SINGAPORE] Cathay Cineplexes parent company mm2 Asia said on Thursday (Jul 17) that it is evaluating all available options to address its financial challenges, including winding up the cinema...
Japan’s Sega eyes return to 1990s gaming glory
[TOKYO] The big-screen success of 1990s video game speedster Sonic the Hedgehog has brought new fans to Japan’s Sega, which says it is poised for a comeback after two...
Chinese shipyards’ market share falls to 52% amid US port fees concerns, says Bimco
[SINGAPORE] The market share of Chinese shipyards dropped by almost a third from January to June this year amid concerns about upcoming fees on Chinese ships entering US ports,...
China probes US$100 underwriting fee amid Xi price war clampdown
[BEIJING] China is investigating some of the nation’s top investment banks over bond underwriting fees that hit below US$100, as regulators expanded a crackdown on a long-standing price war...
Scale AI to cut 14% of staff following Meta investment
[SAN FRANCISCO] Scale AI is laying off hundreds of employees from its data-labelling business, one-month after Meta Platforms invested US$14.3 billion in the startup and hired away its chief...
How Chinese consumer brands are muscling into South-east Asia
EVERY tourist arriving in Ho Chi Minh City visits the 110-year-old Ben Thanh Market. Its surrounding streets pulse with local eateries, coffee joints, and souvenir shops.Yet amid these Vietnamese...
Fed’s Williams says tariff economic impact is only just starting
[NEW YORK] Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams said Wednesday that monetary policy is in the right place to allow central bankers to monitor the economy...
New details in Air India crash probe shift focus to plane’s captain: WSJ
Published Thu, Jul 17, 2025 · 08:05 AMA COCKPIT recording of dialogue between the two pilots of the Air India flight that crashed last month indicates the captain turned...
Haagen-Dazs maker prices debt for 4.4 billion euros payout to owners
[NEW YORK] Froneri International, the maker of Haagen-Dazs ice cream, is wrapping up commitments for a debt deal to help fund one of the largest shareholder payouts on record,...
