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GMR Group to explore opportunities for airports, adjacent biz in West Asia, Eastern Europe

GMR Group chairman G M Rao sees significant international airport opportunities. The company will explore growth in West Asia and Central Asia. Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia also present expansion possibilities. GMR Airports aims to scale up its asset-light portfolio globally. This strategy supports sustainable growth and financial discipline for…

The Economic Times

Meta's Sandhya Devanathan exits after decade-long stint, to join OpenAI

Devanathan joined Meta in 2016 when the company's Singapore office had roughly 300 employees. Over her tenure, she worked across the ecommerce and gaming sectors in APAC, leading teams across India and Southeast Asia.

The Economic Times

Is Toyota Bringing It's Adorable Tiny Truck to America as a UTV? I Hope So

Toyota recently brought one of its Hilux Champ pickups to the Offroad Expo, a truck built for Southeast Asia, and full of Kei-car styling and size. But it's teasing that it could bring the truck to the States. But would it be classified as a UTV?

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Asia’s founders are going global faster, sometimes even before they're sure what their business is, says Stripe's SEA MD

To help businesses expand, Stripe is announcing partnerships with an array of Southeast Asian payment processors like ShopeePay, GCash, and TrueMoney.

Fortune

50 years ago, small centre for animals was set up in hills of Santa Clarita Valley, outside Los Angeles, today globally recognized institutions look after rare, endangered gibbons

Gibbons face increasing threats from habitat destruction where they're normally found, in the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia. Wildlife trade is also a threat, with gibbons being captured from their parents as babies and sold as pets.

The Economic Times

New Economic Gateways: How Capital Is Redrawing Asia's Urban Map

Developing Asia captured around 40% of global FDI in 2025 as Southeast Asia overtook East Asia, with integrated urban development reshaping investment flows.

International Business Times

Southeast Asia's budget airlines eye recovery but fuel scars linger

HONG KONG - Southeast Asia's budget carriers are hoping the worst of ‌the Middle East-driven fuel shock is behind them but face a difficult second half as margins remain under pressure and strained household budgets threaten demand, airline executives and analysts said.

Bangkok Post

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The AI boom is lifting economies across Asia. But for Southeast Asia, it might just be a ‘short-term blip’

Economists studying the region are worried that AI’s gains won’t be evenly shared across Asia.

Fortune

TPIPP ramps up Thai clean power investments

TPI Polene Power Plc (TPIPP), Thailand's largest waste-to-energy power plant developer, is intensifying its renewable energy investments to support the country's ambitions of becoming a leading digital hub in Southeast Asia.

Bangkok Post

Thailand seeks new path to end deadly southern insurgency, negotiator says

Thailand is ready to shift its approach to a slow-burn insurgency ‌in its Muslim-majority deep south and revitalise a peace process, Bangkok's chief negotiator said, as violence simmers in one of Southeast Asia's longest-running conflicts.

Bangkok Post

Donor fatigue guts demining in Asia, as active conflicts draw away funding

Land mines and unexploded bombs from conflicts of the last century still plague parts of Southeast Asia, claiming lives and limbs each year

The Independent UK

Photos show Cambodian children attend school in floating villages along the Tonle Sap lake.

On Cambodia’s Tonle Sap, the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia, getting anywhere has always meant navigating the water. It isn’t any different for schoolchildren.

The Independent UK

In 2015, Indonesia's devastating El Niño fires burned 2.6 million hectares and sent toxic haze across Southeast Asia. 11 years later, restoration efforts had helped cut burned peatland area by 70% in 2023 compared with 2019, showing the value of rewetting

Indonesia is facing renewed wildfire concerns as a strong El Niño brings the prospect of reduced rainfall in 2026. The country’s devastating 2015 fires burned about 2.6 million hectares and sent pollution across Southeast Asia, highlighting the vulnerability of degraded peatlands. Restoration efforts established after that disaster have focused on…

The Economic Times

Irrawaddy Dolphins of Chilika Lake: India's Rarest Cetacean in Brackish Waters

A Dolphin That Defies Easy ClassificationRoughly 150 Irrawaddy dolphins live in Chilika Lake, making this the largest known population of the species in any single enclosed water body on earth. They are not the acrobatic, open-ocean dolphins of wildlife documentaries. Orcaella brevirostris, the Irrawaddy dolphin's scientific name, has a blunt,…

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A Soil Bacterium Now Established on the Gulf Coast Is Behaving Differently Than Its Southeast Asian Relatives

New CDC laboratory work found that Western Hemisphere and African strains of the melioidosis bacterium differ sharply in virulence in mice.

The Conversation

Emerging anti-immigration sentiment in Japan obscures a surprising history of strategic engagement with Islam

A recent increase in anti-immigrant sentiment in Japan has led people from some religious and ethnic groups who were not born in Japan to face hostility. Hate speech has spread on social media, and some mosques have been targeted with abusive messages.

Bangkok Post

Connecting the physical and digital worlds

Happitat, a project by Axtra Happitat Co Ltd, a subsidiary of CP Axtra, has launched one of Southeast Asia's largest and highest-resolution indoor digital displays, spanning 385m² with an ultra-fine P1.8 pixel pitch, and opens its doors on Aug 21.

The Economic Times

Thai man spots strange-looking rocks near pond; scientists say they are bones of 100-million-year-old dinosaur, biggest in Southeast Asia

A Thai man's discovery of strange-looking rocks near a shrinking pond led scientists to identify the fossilised remains of Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis, a 100-million-year-old dinosaur estimated to have weighed up to 28 tonnes and measured around 27 metres long, making it the largest dinosaur identified in Southeast Asia.

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India's Fishing Cat Is Losing Its Bengal Wetlands Faster Than Any Other Habitat

A Cat Built for WaterThe fishing cat, Prionailurus viverrinus, is not a cat that occasionally wades in. It is built for water the way a tiger is built for cover. Its forepaws are partially webbed. Its coat has two layers, a dense, water-repelling undercoat beneath longer guard hairs, so it…

Times Life

India's Most Secretive Feline: What Science Has Actually Documented About the Clouded Leopard

A Cat That Rewrote the Anatomy of ClimbingThe clouded leopard's canine teeth are the longest, relative to skull size, of any living cat on earth. That single biological fact has been confirmed, measured, and published, and it is one of the few things about this animal that science can state…

Bangkok Post

SCG reinvents business model amid foreign competition

The construction materials industry in Southeast Asia is grappling with mounting challenges as foreign factories relocate production bases to the region, often operating under less stringent regulatory and quality standards.

Bangkok Post

Asean's green growth push

Southeast Asia stands at a critical juncture where the transition to a green economy is not only an environmental imperative, but also a strategic necessity for long-term economic resilience and social equity.

Bangkok Post

Thai PM vows new gun law after deadly school shooting

Within hours of a shooting rampage on the outskirts of Bangkok that left at least eight dead, Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul on Friday vowed to introduce a new firearms control law in Southeast Asia's largest gun-owning nation.

The Economic Times

Thai teen kills 8 in rampage at home and school before shooting himself

A 14-year-old Thai student fatally shot his grandparents before attacking a school. He killed at least six people and himself at Debsirin Nonthaburi School. Fifteen individuals sustained injuries during the tragic incident which unfolded on Friday. This marks Thailand's worst mass killing since 2022. Gun violence remains a persistent concern…

Fortune

Ooredoo teams up with Nvidia and Nokia to launch 1 GW AI platform in Indonesia

In an exclusive interview with Fortune, the CEO of Qatar’s Ooredoo reveals why Southeast Asia represents the next big play in its transformation from traditional telco to leading digital infrastructure provider

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