The Vibe Asia

A growing global audience meets Hanumankind on tour, as his music crosses borders and cultures.

HSBC is already ahead of its US$1.5 billion cost-savings target. The AI workforce review comes from a position of financial strength, not distress.

HLB Islamic CEO Dafinah Ahmed Hilmi says financial planning should follow a customer's full life arc, from a child's first savings to legacy arrangements.

Thailand's solar water pump program for 700,000 rai of farmland was part of Anutin's flagship rural energy agenda. Like the DPPA, it needs NEPC approval and has been frozen since parliament dissolved in December.

With 50.5 million monthly transacting users, Grab's platform scale is now backing a profitable business model.

Vietnam had six ethanol plants on paper. Fewer than half operate near capacity. The accelerated rollout will test whether supply meets the policy timeline.

The Arkema VPPA on Jurong Island, the Maiora portfolio acquisition, and the advanced VPPA discussions with unnamed industrial buyers form a coherent platform strategy: aggregate distributed capacity, offer standardized contracts, scale from a bankable balance sheet.

Geopolitical tensions and a global bond selloff are accelerating demand for Asian rate hedging tools. SGX's imminent product launch is timed to meet that institutional need.

Japan's METI and Indonesia's ESDM ministers signed two memoranda covering minerals and nuclear energy in Tokyo.

The Lao-Vietnam deal includes border fuel storage, shared pipelines, and power grid infrastructure linking both countries' energy systems.