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FashionValet, early e-commerce pioneer and Malaysian startup poster-child, sold in fire sale
Cut-price deal for 15 year-old company underscores difficulties of a maturing e-commerce market—and the hammer blow Covid dealt offline retail
Aug 29, 2024
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Ka-Kay Lum
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Jon Russell
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Indonesia arrests Gojek founder in digital education corruption case
Ex-minister Nadiem Makarim accused of bypassing rules to push Google Chromebooks in nationwide schools program
Sep 8, 2025
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Jon Russell
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China obstructs India’s manufacturing rise with Foxconn bans
Beijing is playing hard ball, while Indonesia takes Apple to task and the US goes after Tencent
Jan 13, 2025
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Jon Russell
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How China’s DeepSeek quietly outpaced the US in the global AI race
“Small” AI startup shows how China can compete with Silicon Valley and Southeast Asia’s startup woes continue
Jan 27, 2025
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Jon Russell
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Gojek’s Vietnam exit signals a new chapter in its battle with Grab
GoTo’s decision to leave Vietnam is rare move based on logic, and not rivalry, narrative or money—and that’s new
Sep 5, 2024
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Jon Russell
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Tech In Asia gets the exit and acquirer we all expected
Singapore Press Holdings is the obvious buyer at a $30 million price tag
Nov 2, 2023
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Jon Russell
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Tencent has a new blockbuster game on its hands
Black Myth: Wukong races to 10M sales; head of $14B crypto scam is arrested and more
Aug 26, 2024
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Jon Russell
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The Sequoia Empire is over—what next?
Goodbye Sequoia, hello HongShan and Peak XV
Jun 9, 2023
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Jon Russell
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Amazon failed in Southeast Asia because it never even tried
The US firm lacked stomach for a disjointed region that lacks infrastructure and requires patience
May 12
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Jon Russell
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Meta’s $2.5B Manus deal is historic for Asia, but it isn’t Singapore’s win
Chinese AI startups find a new path but with their domestic market surging, do they even need it?
Jan 5
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Jon Russell
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DayOne: The Singapore flip riding the AI wave to a multi-billion IPO
China’s top data centre company is writing a case study for successful international business spinout
Mar 5
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Jon Russell
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VNG, Vietnam’s first tech unicorn, hit with mystery investigation
VNG has new CEO, Alibaba to accept WeChat and Malaysian fund responds to ATR
Sep 9, 2024
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Jon Russell
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