AI Essay
Washington banned the chips. Chinese labs rent them in Thailand instead.
Washington will license the wire rather than the chip, and Commerce will do it by rule before the Senate ever votes.
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Founders Essay
The four checks that catch a bad co-founder before you sign
Sixty-five percent of startup failures are people problems. After Zilingo, and after paying that tax herself, a Singapore founder runs a four-part audit that fits inside a courtship.
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Health Essay
A breast-cancer drug approved in 2015 cut frailty in old mice. Palbociclib’s asset is its 11 years of side-effect data.
Palbociclib and an anti-RANKL antibody both posted ageing results in one August week, and the strongest thing either has going is a decade of human safety filings.
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AI Essay
Washington asked Canada to stop signing trade deals with anyone else. Ottawa walked.
Canada finishes its ASEAN agreement early, because Washington has just told Ottawa what that agreement is worth.
The numbers
Playbooks
Operators on the record — how a real SEA business actually makes its money, from the CÈ interview desk.
Artificial Intelligence
On the systems being built, and the sovereignty questions they are quietly asking of the region.
Essay
Washington banned the chips. Chinese labs rent them in Thailand instead.
Washington will license the wire rather than the chip, and Commerce will do it by rule before the Senate ever votes.
Essay
Washington asked Canada to stop signing trade deals with anyone else. Ottawa walked.
Canada finishes its ASEAN agreement early, because Washington has just told Ottawa what that agreement is worth.
Essay
Indonesia will set food and courier delivery fees by decree in September.
Perpres 27/2026 took the ojol commission from 20 percent to 8 on 1 July. The regulation due in September prices delivery, turns seven million drivers into MSMEs, and splits enforcement between two ministries.
Founders
Long, unhurried profiles of the operators shaping the region's next decade.
Essay
The four checks that catch a bad co-founder before you sign
Sixty-five percent of startup failures are people problems. After Zilingo, and after paying that tax herself, a Singapore founder runs a four-part audit that fits inside a courtship.
Interview
Jang Kều wins accounts by doing the job her customer is afraid of
Jang Kều has built a distribution company, a brand agency, a Singapore ingredients group and Vietnam’s best-known flood-housing programme on one move: take the part of the deal the other side cannot face. Where that move stops working is the useful part.
Essay
Kling AI sits in Beijing. Its round is 68% of Southeast Asia's AI year.
The region's AI total doubled on the strength of one Series D belonging to a Beijing company. It is the second time this year a Southeast Asian headline has described a single balance sheet.
Modern Health
Modern medicine, longevity, and the limits of optimisation.
Essay
A breast-cancer drug approved in 2015 cut frailty in old mice. Palbociclib’s asset is its 11 years of side-effect data.
Palbociclib and an anti-RANKL antibody both posted ageing results in one August week, and the strongest thing either has going is a decade of human safety filings.
Essay
Job insecurity raises coronary risk 19 percent. Your runway is the same exposure.
Uncertainty is metabolically expensive, and the brain bills the body. What the founders holding an undated question are actually paying.
Essay
NUS’s Dean Ho fasted 20 hours a day for a year. Resting heart rate fell 19 bpm.
DELTA put his estimated biological age at 31.8 against a chronological 45. The authors say that number lacks external validation, and the two markers underneath it do not.
Stoicism
An applied philosophy for people who still have to make decisions, treated as intellectual discipline rather than wellness.
Essay
Two days after a Cat A COE closed at S$128,501, Jardine agreed to sell Cycle & Carriage to an Indonesian petrochemical group.
On amor fati, and the S$265 million a 127-year-old Singapore car business fetched from an Indonesian petrochemical group.
Essay
Three lenders put up S$60m to buy Singapore SMEs off founders with no successor.
On dikaiosyne, and the August week three lenders priced your exit above your growth.
Essay
The Philippines’ AI hub starts digging in 2028. Your plan runs three years.
The view from above, applied to a 1,620-hectare AI zone in Tarlac and to the three-year plan you built on top of it.
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