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Southeast Asia's digital economy to hit $368 billion
In Southeast Asia, generative AI has become an essential part of daily life, actively used by 243 million people (58% of the working population) and scaling four times faster than the rollout of the mobile internet. This has major implications for…
From AI boom to economic bust
OXFORD — The divide between artificial intelligence (AI) fantasists and doomsters is growing. The fantasists believe AI will turbocharge growth and create a utopian world of abundance. The doomsters believe it poses an existential threat to…
Warner Cheuk urges businesses to seize potential of silver economy
Deputy Chief Secretary for Administration Warner Cheuk Wing-hing urged businesses to seize the massive potential of the silver economy as the purchasing power of the elderly grows steadily in Hong Kong. SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Speaking at a…
Six Charts That Explain the Forces Shaping China's Economy
China's breakneck economic growth – which lifted incomes at home and reshaped markets abroad – once seemed as inevitable as a law of nature. That presumption is now being tested. In March, China's government lowered its official 2026…
How the Trump administration's crackdown on international students could affect the economy
A new proposed $70,000 fee for international students who are seeking to work in the U.S. after graduation is the latest Trump administration policy targeting scholars from abroad. 'We've never, until now, seen this deluge of policies that have…
Voters wanted Trump I's economy. They got tariff chaos
First-term midterm elections are generally disastrous for the party in the White House. The 2018 midterm elections ended with mixed returns, seeing the Republicans lose control of the House while expanding their majority in the Senate. There are a…
Tightening the economic belt
My friend from Nyamiyaga called me the other day and suggested that we should start using the same car to work. The prices of fuel have become unbearable, the dollar is misbehaving, and our salaries are fixed. They cannot rise similarly. And I…
South Korea expands intelligence agency's economic security role
Oct. 20 (Asia Today) -- South Korea's National Intelligence Service is expanding its activities into economic security as the country strengthens its response to industrial technology theft, foreign-backed hacking and threats to critical supply…
Burnham government 'not working for the economy', PM's former advisor warns
A former adviser to Andy Burnham has warned a key plank of the government's economic plan does “not work” as he urged ministers to protect the Treasury's “headroom” in next week's Budget. Andy Haldane, a former chief…
How the 'Walmart effect' is major warning sign for the American economy
Walmart may be the siren before an economic storm - at least that's what one financial expert believes. Economist Jim Paulsen calls his theory the “Walmart Recession Signal” (WRS). When Walmart's stock goes up and shares of luxury…
Hong Kong promotes 'Finance +' to enhance real economy: Christopher Hui
Hong Kong is taking efforts to advance 'Finance + Trade' and 'Finance + Green Development' under its first five-year plan, aiming to make finance better serve the real economy, the Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury Christopher Hui…
Nobel Economics Prize 2026: How can Hall and Woodford's ideas help tackle today's economic challenges?
Updated - October 21, 2026 06:20 pm IST This year's Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to an American duo – Prof Robert Hall of Stanford University and Prof Michael Woodford of Columbia University – “for microeconomic…
China's Finance Minister calls for Asia-Pacific cooperation amid global economic challenges
Asia-Pacific economies must deepen macroeconomic policy coordination and practical cooperation to navigate mounting global economic challenges and geopolitical conflicts, Chinese Finance Minister Lan Fo'an said on Tuesday. SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH…
Adaptive capacity sustains China's economic resilience
A landscape design of the Annual Conference of Financial Street Forum 2026 in Beijing, October 19, 2026 Photo: VCG As China enters its 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-30) against a complex external environment, questions about the resilience of…
With France embroiled in protest, a look at the nation's economic standing by the numbers
Roiled by protests, France has drawn long looks from abroad at the state of its republic — both its divisive internal politics and economic decision-making. Mostly peaceful, if obstructive, school blockades by students this month morphed…
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