Danantara and the return of the shareholder state
For decades, the dominant idea in corporate governance was that governments should regulate markets, while shareholders should own…
AI reckoning makes South Korean economy run for cover
TOKYO — South Korea has outrun the 1997 Asian financial crisis, the 2008 Lehman shock, and the 2013…
Blind spot: The hidden workers behind Indonesia’s digital boom
Today, Indonesia stands as one of the most formidable digital economic powerhouses in Southeast Asia. Bank Indonesia recorded…
Enter Helios: quantum computer sets high watermark for accuracy
In a laboratory in Broomfield, Colorado, 98 atoms are suspended in mid-air, held in place by electric fields…
What Indonesia’s finance chief really brought back from Beijing
When Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa landed in Beijing last week, the official agenda appeared straightforward: secure support…
Rupiah’s plunge pushes Indonesia’s manufacturers to the edge
Indonesia’s financial markets were jolted Monday (June 8) as the rupiah hit a new record low of over…
Bank of Japan squeezed by Takaichi, Trump and Iran war inflation
Speaking on Wednesday (May 27), Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda cautioned that central banks must prevent this…
MSCI’s Indonesia purge exposes a deeper market crisis
The May 2026 rebalancing by Morgan Stanley Capital International may go down as one of the most consequential…
Don’t use GDP to judge China’s strength – look at this instead
When President Donald Trump arrives in Beijing on May 14 for his summit with Xi Jinping, China will…
NVIDIA’s $2 billion sprinkler remaking the AI supply chain
These days, it seems that if NVIDIA needs something to be secured, it writes a US$2 billion check.…
Nvidia chip curbs turn Singapore into AI hub for China
The United States’ export controls aimed at restricting China’s access to Nvidia’s advanced artificial intelligence chips are unlikely…
Beyond hope and hype: five certainties in the AI storm
The just-published Anthropic paper by Massenkoff and McCrory is a genuinely careful, well-intentioned and much-needed piece of work.…