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Ninh Thuan 1 Deal Revives Vietnam’s 2,400 MW Nuclear Plan

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A Russian-built, Russian-fueled nuclear plant creates multi-decade Rosatom dependency for fuel, maintenance, and waste management. Vietnam has not disclosed financing or fuel terms.
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Vietnam’s Aviation Sector Faces April Shock As China And Thailand Halt Fuel Exports

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Bamboo Airways is protecting trunk routes and high-yield tourism corridors while cutting frequencies, reflecting triage logic now driving network planning across Vietnam's aviation sector.
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Japan Trains Foreign Workers For Railway Maintenance

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The program supports long-term maintenance and safety of railway systems across the country.
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HSBC Weighs 20,000 Job Cuts As AI Targets Middle And Back Office Operations

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HSBC is assessing cuts of up to 20,000 roles as AI automation targets non-client-facing service center operations across Asia and globally.
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Hong Leong Islamic Bank Rebrands As HLB Islamic With New Wealth Stewardship Strategy

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Hong Leong Islamic Bank officially rebranded as HLB Islamic on March 12, 2026, aligning its identity with the parent HLB brand.
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‘Big Dawgs’ Hitmaker Hanumankind Set For April 2026 Asia Tour, Including Hong Kong

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Hanumankind takes his rising global momentum on the road, bringing a high-energy tour across Asia following the breakout success of “Big Dawgs.”
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Peak Energy Acquires Maiora’s Singapore Rooftop Portfolio As LNG Volatility Drives Corporate Solar Demand

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Peak Energy acquired nearly 10 MW of operating Singapore rooftop solar from Maiora on March 12, backed by Stonepeak's $84 billion infrastructure platform. The deal targets corporate buyers needing fixed-price locally sourced power.
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Thailand’s New Parliament Opens With Energy Policy Backlog Waiting For A Sitting Prime Minister

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Thailand's parliament opened March 14 with Bhumjaithai holding a coalition majority of around 291 seats. Two energy schemes requiring prime ministerial sign-off have been on hold since December.
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Grab Holdings Posts USD 200 Million Net Profit In 2025, Financial Services Revenue Climbs 37 Percent

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Grab Holdings posted its first full-year net profit in 2025, closing a decade of losses across Southeast Asia.
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Binh Son Refinery’s First Ethanol Batch Signals Vietnam’s Biofuel Supply Chain Coming Online

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Vietnam is moving its E10 bioethanol transition two months ahead of schedule to cut conventional gasoline use by 10 percent.
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Vietnam Supplies Laos 50 Million Litres Of Fuel As Thailand Cuts Exports By 25 Percent

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Laos imports all its refined fuel and sources 97 percent from Thailand. When Thailand cut exports, the country had nowhere else to turn fast.
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ASEAN Economic Ministers Issue Formal Hormuz Warning At March 13 Taguig Retreat

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The IEA released 400 million barrels on March 11, its largest emergency action ever, more than double the post-Ukraine intervention in 2022.
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CNTIC VPower’s Yangon Plants Reach 500 MW Output On Restarted LNG Supply Chain

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Myanmar's fifth LNG delivery to Thilawa sustains 500 MW for Yangon's industrial zones, with a sixth cargo due in April.
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Singapore Exchange Confirms Asian Government Bond Futures Launch Within Weeks

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SGX CEO Loh Boon Chye confirmed Asian government bond futures will launch within weeks. Singapore is building the hedging infrastructure for Asia's growing debt markets.
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Singapore Exchange Confirms Asian Government Bond Futures Launch Within Weeks

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SGX CEO Loh Boon Chye confirmed Asian government bond futures will launch within weeks. Singapore is building the hedging infrastructure for Asia's growing debt markets.
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Indonesia And Japan Sign Critical Minerals And Nuclear Energy Pact At Tokyo Forum

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Indonesia and Japan signed a critical minerals and nuclear energy cooperation pact at IPEM 2026 in Tokyo.
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New Bird Species Found In Japan For First Time In 45 Years

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Experts emphasized the importance of conservation following the rare discovery.
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Kredivo Group’s Timo Acquisition Tests Whether BNPLl Infrastructure Can Scale Into Full Digital Banking

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FinAccel's prior minority stake in Timo has converted into full ownership, consolidating Kredivo's Vietnam position under one entity.
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2C2P And M-PAY Bring Multi-Channel Payment Orchestration To Sun PhuQuoc Airways In Vietnam

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The M-PAY and 2C2P partnership for Sun PhuQuoc Airways is set to expand beyond Vietnam into other Asian markets in later phases.
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Laos Ministry Of Industry And Commerce Eliminates Diesel Excise Tax As Fuel Station Closures Hit 42 Percent Nationwide

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Laos' BRT network in Vientiane is being extended to the railway station and airport under emergency directives. Infrastructure decisions accelerated by a crisis rarely get reversed.
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Indonesia’s Nuclear Ambitions Get Japanese Institutional Backing As NEPIO Formation Remains Pending

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Japan holds 254 days of oil reserves. Indonesia holds approximately 21–23 days. That gap is part of why Indonesia's nuclear and geothermal agenda, backed by Japanese capital and technology, carries strategic urgency.
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British Airways Returns To Melbourne After Two Decades With A Kuala Lumpur Hub Strategy

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British Airways added 3,300 Bangkok and Singapore seats in March, reflecting Southeast Asia's rising strategic weight.
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Why The Wealthiest People Protect Empty Time Like A Financial Asset

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The structural difference between someone earning income and someone building wealth often comes down to this: one fills every quiet moment, the other guards it.
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EBANX Opens Singapore APAC Headquarters After Record 48% Payment Volume Growth In 2025

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EBANX will open its Singapore APAC headquarters on March 24, backed by a full MAS Major Payment Institution license and 48% payment volume growth in 2025.
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How The February 2026 Middle East Airspace Crisis Rewrote Asia-Europe Aviation Overnight

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When Dubai goes dark, the Asia-Europe corridor has to find a new path. Singapore Airlines and Cathay Pacific are structurally positioned to absorb that shift — but rising operating costs are applying pressure from the other direction at the same time.
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Qantas Suspends Perth–London Nonstop As Gulf Airspace Crisis Forces Singapore Reroute

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Qantas suspended its famous non-stop QF9 Perth–London service from March 4, 2026. The Boeing 787-9 could no longer sustain full payload on the detour around closed Iranian and Iraqi airspace. Three extra hours and a Singapore fuel stop later, one of aviation's most ambitious routes is operating on a very different map.
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Mastercard Move Adds China Bank Account Rails, Filling A Key Gap In Its APAC Payment Network

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Mastercard Move and Bank of Shanghai establish bi-directional cross-border payment flows between China and global markets, adding domestic bank account rails to Mastercard's existing China network.
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Cherry Trees Begin To Blossom In Japan This Season

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Cherry trees are beginning to bloom, bringing the country closer to peak sakura viewing.
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DBS Extends SecureFX To All Corporate Customers In Singapore As FX Volatility Rises In 2026

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DBS has extended SecureFX to all corporate customers in Singapore, giving businesses of all sizes access to FX rate-locking for cross-border payments through DBS IDEAL.
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Southeast Asia And Asia Pivot To Coal As Hormuz Closure Destroys LNG Demand Across The Region

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The Asian thermal coal benchmark rose 13.2 percent in March. LNG prices doubled. The spread between the two fuels is now driving every grid dispatch decision across Southeast Asia.
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Four Hundred Million Barrels: What The IEA Release Can And Cannot Do For Asia

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Brent hit $119 on March 9. The IEA announced 400 million barrels on March 11. By March 17, Brent was back above $100. The Strait is still closed.
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Cape EMS Berhad Pivots From Electronics Assembly To Clean Energy Infrastructure Under CEB 2.0 Strategy

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No investment quantum or contracted project value was disclosed alongside the March 16 announcement. For investors and analysts tracking Cape EMS's CEB 2.0 progress, the next material data point will be evidence of anchor customers and Cape Renewables revenue appearing in the income statement.
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Bank Indonesia Drops Rate-Cut Language As Iran War Locks Rupiah Policy Into Stability Mode

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Indonesia's central bank now faces simultaneous pressure from a geopolitical shock, two sovereign rating downgrades, capital outflows, and rupiah weakness approaching crisis-era levels. Bank Indonesia's March 17 hold is the opening frame of a more complex monetary story.
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Japan Starts Releasing Oil Reserves

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The government’s decision highlights efforts to secure domestic energy supply during international tensions.
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Indonesia’s Kredivo Takes Full Control Of Vietnam’s First Digital Bank Timo

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Two acquisitions in two months: GajiGesa in February, Timo in March. Kredivo Group's regional consolidation strategy is moving fast.
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How Salmon Bank Is Building One Of The Philippines’ Most Capitalized Challenger Bank Platforms

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Philippine digital banking is getting more competitive. Salmon Bank's recapitalization is one of the clearer signals that challenger banks are playing a long game.
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How EBANX’s MAS Licence And Singapore HQ Position It For APAC’s Next Growth Phase

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With a MAS licence secured and a headquarters set to open, EBANX is building the regulatory and operational foundation for its next phase of APAC expansion.
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Republic Act 12120 At The Center Of Philippines Energy Crisis Response As Senate Weighs Fuel Tax Relief

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Manila is in parallel talks with Indonesia on coal supply and with First Gas Power Corporation on uncommitted domestic gas volumes as it manages an LNG supply shock with no single domestic fix.
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Nam Dinh Vu Industrial Park Chosen For GE Vernova’s Third GlobalHVDC Manufacturing Site

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Vietnam's annual power investment requirement exceeds $27 billion through 2030 under the Revised PDP8. The GE Vernova HVDC plant is among the first foreign manufacturing investments calibrated to that infrastructure scale.
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Vietnam’s Decree 72/2026: How An Emergency Tax Cut Exposed The Limits Of Price Stabilisation Policy

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Vietnam cut fuel import taxes to zero and deployed its Price Stabilisation Fund within the same week.
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Thunes Names Technology And Finance Leaders As Cross-Border Payments Race Intensifies In Asia

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Thunes appoints a new CTPO and CFO as it scales AI across a 130-plus-country payments network.
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Singapore Gulf Bank Expands SGB Net To Include Regulated Stablecoin Settlement For Institutions

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Singapore Gulf Bank expands SGB Net to support regulated stablecoin settlement for institutional clients across Asia and the GCC.
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ShopeePay Enters Cross-Border Payments Via Alipay+ Integration

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ShopeePay launches cross-border QR payments via Alipay+, reaching 150 million merchants across 100 markets instantly.
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IFC Invests USD40 Million In Zetrix AI To Build Malaysia’s Blockchain Public Infrastructure

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IFC invests US$40 million in Zetrix AI to build blockchain and AI public infrastructure across Malaysia and ASEAN.
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Malaysia’s Largest IPO In Nine Years: How Sunway Healthcare Priced RM2.86 Billion In A Contested Market

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Malaysia's largest IPO in nine years is fully subscribed. Sunway Healthcare Holdings Berhad confirmed its RM1.45 price on March 9, with the retail tranche closing 5.57 times oversubscribed — 77,236 applications received for 1.51 billion shares against 230 million available.
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Vietnam’s FDI Disbursement Hits Five-Year High

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Vietnam opened 2026 with $3.21 billion in realized FDI, the highest two-month disbursement in five years.
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Singapore EMA Warns Of Higher Electricity Tariffs After Qatar LNG Halt

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Singapore sourced nearly half its LNG from Qatar in 2025. That supply is now offline.
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ASMC Seasonal Forecast Places Southeast Asia Heat And LNG Supply Shock On A Collision Course

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ASMC projects 80 to 100 percent probability of above-normal heat across Indonesia and Malaysia through May 2026.
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Bank Indonesia’s Sweeping Payment System Overhaul Takes Effect March 31 As Industry Faces First Compliance Deadlines

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PBI 10/2025 is part of a longer agenda. Bank Indonesia's Blueprint for Indonesia Payment System 2030 is a multi-year roadmap for digital integration and risk-based supervision.
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DBS Bank Activates 12-Hour Cooling Period For High-Risk Digital Transactions Effective March 7

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Singapore's Shared Responsibility Framework, which took effect December 16, 2024, makes the 12-hour cooling period a formal duty for financial institutions. DBS Bank's March 7 activation brings it into full compliance.
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