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Japan’s Manufacturing Retreat Remains Anchored to China
By Wan Ge in Tokyo On July 30, Japan’s Cabinet Office lowered its forecast for real GDP growth in fiscal…
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AI · Asia · Factories | A Chip’s Journey Across Asia: Who Makes It, Who Packages It and Who Installs It
By Jiuri in Tokyo The raw material used to make semiconductor chips is ultra-high-purity silicon with a purity level of…
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AI · Asia · Factories | They Do Not Write Code, but AI Cannot Function Without Them
By Wan Ge in Tokyo Inside the cleanroom of a semiconductor packaging and testing plant in Penang, Malaysia, 23-year-old technician…
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Central Asia’s Settlement Hub: Hong Kong or Hainan?
By Meng Linna in Kazakhstan Economic and trade ties between Central Asia and China are deepening rapidly. In 2025, trade…
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AI · Asia · Factories | AI Is Not Replacing Workers—It Needs More of Them
By Wan Ge in Tokyo Introduction | “The AI investment boom is driving an expansion of Asian manufacturing, with semiconductor…
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Kazakhstan Sets Its Sights on Becoming Eurasia’s Digital Hub
Yuanyin reports from Tokyo Geneva, July 2026. At the United Nations’ AI for Good Global Summit, the slogan displayed at…
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A New Asian Economic Landscape | Restructuring: A Transformation Already Underway
Wan Ge reports from Tokyo With more than half of 2026 already behind us, Asia’s economy presents a picture that…
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Japan Accelerates Its AI Strategy as Robotics Giants Join NVIDIA in the Race for Physical AI
By Wan Ge in Tokyo Artificial intelligence has recently become almost synonymous with the global arms race in large language…
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A New Asian Economic Landscape | Growing Pains: AI Disruption in India and Japan’s Industrial Malaise
Killy reports from Tokyo Beside the asphalt road leading to Manyata Tech Park in Bengaluru, Rajesh, a masala tea vendor,…
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A New Asian Economic Landscape | Hong Kong’s Recovery and Surging Foreign Trade
Wan Ge reports from Tokyo On the 36th floor of an office building on Queen’s Road Central, a newly established…
