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CHINA

Opinion & Features

China’s next soft-power export could be beauty

At the Summer Davos, Chinese Premier Li Qiang said Chinese technological advancements benefit the rest of the world.
Opinion & Features

To understand China’s growing confidence, look at the ‘Summer Davos’

Customers in a shopping area of Beijing. People have not shown much appetite for consumption, with retail sales performing especially badly in May 2026.
Opinion & Features

It’s too soon to breathe easy on China’s economy

May’s NODX growth figure also outperformed economists’ median forecast of 30.5 per cent year-on-year growth, a Bloomberg poll showed.
Singapore

AI demand to keep Singapore’s export growth robust despite Middle East uncertainty: economists

Singapore's total merchandise trade grows 39.7% in May, with both exports and imports increasing.
Singapore

Singapore’s key exports growth hits 22-year high of 38.4% in May

Recent surveys of purchasing managers have suggested US companies are stockpiling merchandise in an effort to front-run additional war-related price hikes.
International

US trade gap narrows as oil exports offset AI-driven imports

Nearly 40% of the EU’s total car production is for export, and the unit value of European auto exports is twice as high as that of imports from China.
Opinion & Features
THE BOTTOM LINE

Why Europe’s tariff plans on China won’t solve its trade problem

Singapore accounts for roughly 20% of global semiconductor equipment production. Its position across memory, advanced packaging and equipment becomes structurally harder to bypass as AI chip complexity increases.
Wealth & Investing
INVESTING GLOBALLY & PROFITABLY

NODX a macro tailwind, but can SGX-listed semiconductor stocks deliver?

US exports of goods increased 4 per cent in April.
International

US merchandise-trade deficit narrows on rise in exports

The lack of operational clarity in the shake-up of Indonesia’s commodities exports is showing up in trading activity, with fresh fruit bunch prices declining in Sumatra and Kalimantan.
Asean Business

Indonesia’s commodity export shake-up sparks industry alarm, investor jitters

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