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Australia’s first Trump-branded hotel planned for Gold Coast

Higher work pass salary thresholds for foreigners won’t dent housing market, AI push can power private home prices

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Asia sees ‘temporary’ tariff relief, trade-hub Singapore to benefit despite direct hike: analysts

Indonesia posts rare January budget gap as spending jumps 26%

Seatrium up 4.2% on S$50 million savings target ahead of full-year earnings

China, India among winners after US court blocked Trump tariffs

Thai exports jump most in four years on AI-led electronics boom

Sunway, IJM and the politics of consolidation in Malaysia

Singapore core inflation eases to 1% in January, below expectations

SK Hynix boss pledges to boost output of AI memory chips

Bitcoin falls below US$65,000 in latest bout of tariff uncertainty

India’s new lending curbs seen squeezing trading firms

The court says no: the Supreme Court’s rebuke of Trump’s tariff gambit

Capitaland Investment dragged into red by China asset losses: What are the hits and misses?

China monitoring Trump’s new trade moves after US court defeat

Gold rises as dollar falls on US Supreme Court tariff verdict

DBS partners Granite Asia to provide capital, financing for high-growth companies in Asia

Dollar falls as traders sell US assets on trade policy risks

Blue Owl anxiety rattles the US$1.8 trillion private credit market

New Zealand retail spending beats estimates as economy recovers

Oil slides on Iran nuclear talks, fresh US tariff uncertainty

Choppier waters ahead: Singapore SMEs brace for tougher US trade landscape as tariffs rise to 15%

UK risks being the biggest loser from Trump’s tariff changes

UK graduate jobs drop below 10,000 for first time: report

Singapore’s STI up, Hong Kong stocks surge as Asia rises after Trump’s new tariffs

CapitaLand Ascott Trust expands Japan portfolio with 4.6 billion yen acquisition

Singapore's edge intact amid Trump's 15% tariff threat, but support measures on standby

Quantum tech investor QAI Ventures eyes fresh bets in Singapore, India

Stocks to watch: UOI, Seatrium, Parkway Life Reit, Clas, Raffles Medical, Vicom, Concord New Energy

South Korea’s early exports surge as AI boom fuels chip demand

Seatrium targets over S$50 million in savings through asset divestments

Rolls-Royce to return as much as £1.5 billion to shareholders in buyback: report

US tells partners to honour tariff deals as Trump regroups

Raffles Medical H2 profit rises 21.7% to S$38.5 million; shares surge 5.9% to one-year high

Trump pegs new tariffs to a payments crisis experts doubt exists

Digital Core Reit pivots to ‘offensive’ strategy, targets doubling asset base in 3 years

SGX must find ‘sweet spot’ in culling underperforming firms as regional peers tighten curbs: market experts

Baltic Exchange Shipping Insights

No more cheap kopi: the price of Johor’s investment boom

Nasdaq consolidates below key highs

DBS, OCBC, UOB may grab attention as Fed shifts stance, copes with new tariff uncertainty

Seoul apartment prices gain further ahead of BOK meeting

No tsunami threat after earthquake of magnitude 7 strikes Borneo

India delays US trade talks after Supreme Court rejects Trump tariffs: source

Law enforcement kills armed man seeking to enter Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort: officials

YESTERDAY

At an AI summit, India tries to find a way between the US and China

Hollywood merger threatens movie theatres just as they recover

Malaysia’s anti-graft chief questioned in shareholding probe

Indonesia faces record share sales to meet free-float goal

Gold gains as traders mull next Trump moves after tariff ruling

Xi gains upper hand before Trump summit after US tariff reversal

Singapore-based Piece Future helps startups leverage unused patents

Champagne, concierges and emergency sand: How the ultra-rich travel

Ascott, Frasers scale up in China rental housing to tap fast-growing market

Data centre S-Reits stay resilient on AI tailwinds

India’s AI summit: Where big ambitions met hard realities

Seniors in over 80,000 private homes can tap subsidies for ageing-friendly fittings from April

Asian economies weigh impact of fresh Trump tariff moves, confusion

China defies global ‘AI scare trade’ as investors chase winners

Customised battery packs for Tesla OBUs meet international safety standards: LTA

DBS to impose 12-hour cooling period for adding new payees, raising daily transfer limits

‘Not how humans act’: How agentic AI is changing cyberattacks

US Justice Department probes Netflix’s power over film-makers in Warner Deal review

Trump doubles down on closing tax loophole for cheap imports

How a US$15 million Chinese pork deal turned into a cautionary tale for foreign investors

Trump’s trade gamble will continue despite US Supreme Court rebuke

Trump says he will increase global tariffs to 15% from 10%

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Smart money is winning as tariff whiplash, AI grip Wall Street

Cyber stocks slide as Anthropic unveils Claude security tool

Neymar says he may retire by end-2026

Detroit auto industry spared from Trump’s latest tariff programme

OpenAI expects compute spend of around US$600 billion through 2030: source

Wikipedia founder sees no threat from Musk’s Grokipedia

6 takeaways from the US Supreme Court’s tariff decision

China’s Shenzhen cracks down on risky gold trading amid wave of defaults

US tariffs on Singapore expected to stay unchanged as Trump imposes new 10% global levies

Trump tariff reversal could cut costs for US energy firms but will likely leave broader flows unchanged

Hello, kitty: Japan’s US$20 billion cat boom

Trump furious after Supreme Court upends his global tariffs, vows new 10% levy

Oil: Brent rises late, settles higher and with weekly gain on Iran-US jitters

Europe: Stoxx 600 hits record after US Supreme Court strikes down Trump tariffs

Wall Street ends higher after Supreme Court rules against Trump tariffs

Why two-thirds of Singapore’s wealthy fear their legacy won’t last – and what must change

Small states, big choices: Singapore’s approach to sovereignty in the age of AI

Reasons to worry about America’s investment position with the rest of the world

Retirement isn’t a finale – it’s a strategic pivot

Chinese wellness operator House+ Bubble opens 24-hour spa complex in Perennial Business City

Asia’s next great leap won’t come from more technology, but better leaders

Why Asia’s family offices are moving to multi-hub models

Explainer: Trump’s options after the US Supreme Court says his tariffs are illegal

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