By: Logan Pierce – AsiaPresswire – The numbers tell one story and the streets tell another. In the first full year after the borders reopened, Thailand welcomed visitors in the tens of millions again, a figure that travels well in headlines and government press releases. Walk the strip near a…
By: Robert Sterling – AsiaPresswire – A single number explains why the world keeps mistaking Saudi Arabia’s construction market for a certainty. In one recent year the kingdom awarded construction and infrastructure contracts worth well over a hundred billion dollars, a sum larger than the entire annual building output of…
By: Christian Brooks – SeaPRwire – A sourcing director I worked with spent the first half of last year moving part of his assembly line out of southern China. The arithmetic was convincing. Vietnamese factory wages sat around a third of what he paid in Dongguan. The workforce was young…
By: Logan Pierce – SeaPRwire – A founder I know sat in a co-working space near Tanjong Pagar last spring, staring at a spreadsheet that would decide where his company’s regional headquarters would live for the next five years. His startup sold inventory software to mid-sized retailers across Asia. The…
Indonesia – October 21, 2026 – (AsiaPressWire) – Indonesia banned the export of unprocessed nickel ore in January 2020, pulling forward a deadline that had originally been set for 2022. Five years on, it is the most consequential industrial policy experiment in Southeast Asia, and the clearest test anywhere of whether…
Hong Kong – October 21, 2026 – (AsiaPressWire) – In May 2026, a Boston Consulting Group report carried a line that the city’s financial establishment had been working toward for three years: Hong Kong had overtaken Switzerland as the world’s largest cross-border wealth management centre. Cross-boundary wealth booked there rose 10.7…
Logan Pierce – AsiaPresswire – In May 2026, a Boston Consulting Group report carried a line that the city’s financial establishment had been working toward for three years: Hong Kong had overtaken Switzerland as the world’s largest cross-border wealth management centre. Cross-boundary wealth booked there rose 10.7 percent in 2025…
Robert Sterling – AsiaPresswire – Indonesia banned the export of unprocessed nickel ore in January 2020, pulling forward a deadline that had originally been set for 2022. Five years on, it is the most consequential industrial policy experiment in Southeast Asia, and the clearest test anywhere of whether a commodity-producing…
Christian Brooks – SeaPRwire – Johor Bahru spent most of its modern history as Singapore’s industrial periphery — a place where palm oil estates and light manufacturing absorbed overflow labour from across the strait without ever becoming anything like a destination. Commuters knew it as a traffic jam and a…
Robert Sterling – SeaPRwire – A hotel in Cebu lost a booking last March because of a QR code. Not a broken one — a missing one. A guest from Singapore stood at the front desk with her banking app open, ready to pay, and there was nothing to scan.…
By: Alistair Kroon – SeaPRwire – Stolen goods from the streets already sit on sale screens. French protests turned violent on 17 October. Shops were smashed. Luxury brand stores were hit hard. Vehicles burned. More than two thousand people were arrested according to the Interior Ministry. President Macron condemned the…
By: Adrian Cole – SeaPRwire – Sovereign debt power remains tilted. The fifteenth International Monetary Forum opened at Nankai University’s Balitai campus. It formed part of the 2026 Tianjin Five Avenues Financial Forum series. Nankai University and Renmin University of China co-hosted the event. They released the RMB Internationalization Index…
By: Robert Sterling – SeaPRwire – One strong month does not rewrite a decade of capital flight. German industrial output just jumped 2.0 percent month on month. That is the best reading in seventeen months. Construction drove almost all of it with a 9.3 percent surge after seasonal adjustment. The…
By: James Vance – SeaPRwire – Marketing teams still spend more time wrestling software than closing deals. Dashboards multiply. CRMs demand constant feeding. Email tools sit in separate tabs. Campaign data lives somewhere else entirely. People become the glue holding fractured systems together. That friction is the real cost of…
Marking a historic milestone for foreign property ownership in Makkah, Thakher Development completes the SAR 2 billion sale of the 1,461-room Novotel Thakher Makkah and 14 development plots to Indonesia’s sovereign wealth fund. MAKKAH, Saudi Arabia – SeaPRwire – Thakher Development, the master developer of the Thakher Makkah megaproject, has…
By: Logan Pierce – SeaPRwire -Enrollment opens October 17. The course launches October 26. Tryllium announced the joint effort between its clients ISNation and performance coach Dr. Ellen Reed. The product is called Prepare to Perform. It is a structured sports mental training course for athletes at every level. Athletes…
By: Alistair Kroon – SeaPRwire – The letter landed nine days before the vote. On October 18 Trump posted an open letter to Israeli citizens on Truth Social. He gave Benjamin Netanyahu complete and full support. He said Iran has already been systematically destroyed militarily and economically. Unless they change…
By: Gavin Thorne – SeaPRwire – Half a million people took to French streets on October 17. Organizers put the number at eight hundred thousand. The grievances were rising living costs, scarce education resources and worsening public services. Parts of the protests turned violent. Shops were looted. The one-hundred-forty-three-year-old city…
By: TechVanguard – SeaPRwire – Hank Robotics just joined the 2026 U.S. Chamber of Commerce CO-100 list. The Miami firm is one of one hundred recognized American businesses. It sits among the ten Tech Innovators honorees. Founded in 2024, the company uses drones and robotics for commercial exterior work that…
By: Gavin Thorne – SeaPRwire – The pause landed first. President Trump signed an executive order on October 16 that holds off the new round of large-scale economic sanctions Congress passed against Russia. He told lawmakers the delay serves U.S. national interest. Bipartisan members called the move irresponsible. White House…
