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Malaysia eyes Huawei chips for $494m sovereign AI project
Telekom Malaysia already partners with Huawei on cloud infrastructure.
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TUI BLUE Han River Opens: A New Award-Winning Flagship for Hospitality Design in Asia
Dewan Architects celebrates the opening of TUI BLUE Han River, a landmark collaboration demonstrating how international hospitality expertise, strong operator alignment and local understanding can create unique destinations with lasting value. DA NANG, Vietnam , Sept. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- On 8 August 2026, TUI BLUE Han River officially opened its doors in Da Nang, marking an important milestone for both the city's hospitality landscape and Dewan 's growing portfolio across Southeast Asia. Hotel Main Entrance Developed by Thaigroup and operated under the international TUI BLUE brand, the 125
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Huawei and Partners Jointly Launch Four AI+ Healthcare Scenarios Solution across APAC
SINGAPORE , Sept. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- HIMSS26 APAC a flagship digital health event for the Asia-Pacific region at Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre in Singapore. During the event, Huawei hosted the "AI for Health, Health for All" forum, bringing together more than 100 healthcare leaders, experts, and partners from across APAC. At the forum, Huawei and its ecosystem partners jointly launched four AI+ Healthcare Solution Scenarios , combining digital and intelligent infrastructure with healthcare expertise to accelerate AI adoption in high-value clinical and hospital workflows. AI+
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Asian Junior Elite Series (AJES) Officially Launches
"Janet Lin Pathways Project" to Provide Full Support Series Tees Off in Beijing This November SINGAPORE, Sept. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Miles Group has officially launched the Asian Junior Elite Series (AJES), a premier competitive platform designed to deliver professional-grade tournament experiences and direct global pathways for rising junior golfers across China and Asia. The inaugural tournament will tee off November 18–20, 2026, at the Beijing Topwin Golf and Country Club. Tournament Format & Advancement System The inaugural AJES season opens with a 54-hole stroke-play tournament featurin
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Singapore banks court younger customers as more climb wealth ladder
Banks report younger customers are investing sooner, with more progressing into affluent wealth tiers
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Trump says Canada’s Bombardier cannot sell in US unless it builds there
Canada plans to introduce a wave of counter tariffs against the US on Thursday
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Volkswagen finds defence future for German plant amid major overhaul
Labour officials say the move could preserve about 1,400 of the site’s 1,800 jobs.
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New Huawei device is China’s answer to foldable iPhone
The Mate XT 2 has two folding mechanisms
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Yen hits seven-month high; dollar soft ahead of US inflation
[SINGAPORE/LONDON] The yen surged to a seven-month high on Monday (Sep 7), as traders appeared to reassess their outlook on the embattled...
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Google, Cathay Pacific use AI to tackle aviation’s top climate headache
The solution mitigates the warming effects of contrails by adjusting flight paths
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DBS, Citi bypass traditional banking hours in cross-border tokenised deposit trial
Standard cross-border settlement can take up to 2 business days due to time zones, weekend closures
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India’s central bank withdraws over six trillion rupees of bank liquidity after record spike
The surplus hits 11.6 trillion rupees on Sep 6, amounting to nearly 4% of the banking system deposits
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China insurer capital injections could boost stock investments, analysts say
Five state insurers to get 70 billion yuan, sooner than market expected
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Singapore, Hong Kong banks to benefit most as Asia capital markets deepen in H2: Morgan Stanley
In Asean, select Malaysian and Thai banks can benefit too, say its analysts
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Foxconn says third quarter to outperform market expectations on AI strength
Firm is Nvidia’s biggest server maker and a major Apple supplier
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Hormuz traffic dips to lowest since May after US, Iranian strikes on ships
Commercial tankers now being deliberately used as instruments of reciprocal economic pressure
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iX Biopharma closes in on US military approval for pain drug
The company says it expects to complete its Emergency Use Authorization submission in Q4
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Amazon Prime Air cargo plane crashes after overrunning Miami runway; at least 5 killed
Five people also injured in the crash, including three in critical condition
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China to pump US$54 billion into state banks, insurers
This move is part of a coordinated push by Beijing to shore up capital across its financial system
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German startup Isar reaches orbit in boost to Europe’s homegrown launch ambitions
Global players in satellite launch market include Elon Musk’s SpaceX and French ArianeGroup
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OpenAI acknowledges agents’ misuse of German wiki, pledges more transparency on AI incidents
OpenAI officials learned of the incident weeks ago but kept it under wraps
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Anthropic IPO launch shifts toward mid-October, sources say
This pushes back what some investors have said could be a US$2 trillion listing
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Musk pushes regulatory limits with Tesla's Cybercab robotaxi service
US regulators limit commercial deployment of vehicles that do not adhere to decades-old safety standards that were written for human-driven vehicles
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