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Geely, one of China’s biggest carmakers, resists the push to go all-electric

“You will lose a profit growth engine if you do not make petrol cars,” Geely Automotive Holdings' CEO said in a recent interview.

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South Korean court starts impeachment proceedings of President Yoon Suk-yeol over short-lived martial law

Courts have around six months to decide whether to uphold the impeachment. Elections must be held within two months if Yoon is removed.

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Work trends like AI are forcing Asian professionals to adapt, and fast: ‘The pace of change is speeding up’

Over 80% of Indian professionals report feeling overwhelmed by how quickly their jobs are changing, according to LinkedIn.

16.12.2024 3

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Inside the secret history of Design for Good, an alliance between companies with $4 trillion in market cap to devise solutions to the world’s biggest problems

Design for Good co-founder Ben Sheppard explains why big names like Microsoft, Nestle and DBS got involved.

14.12.2024 10

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Germany pushes for EV subsidies as a lifeline to save Europe’s flailing electric ambitions

"We need incentives to buy electric cars," said Chancellor Olaf Scholz as Germany's auto industry struggles to hit its ambitious electrification...

11.12.2024 10

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General Mills’s top designer refreshed the Pillsbury Doughboy and risked defying its No. 1 rule: ‘Don’t break the billion dollar brand’

If you think Poppin' Fresh looks different, you'd be right. Teman Evans explains why his team refreshed the mascot, now firmly a "boomer."

11.12.2024 10

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China’s rapid rollout of EVs has a downside: The cars all look the same

"You don’t really have a lot of time to actually come up with all new ideas,” said BAIC chief design officer Anthony Lo, previously of Ford and...

06.12.2024 10

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Cities are still trying to figure things out post-pandemic—and that’s providing an opportunity for design firms like Gensler

Mixed-use neighborhoods, 20-minute cities, and an office you might actually want to work in—these are Gensler's 2025 predictions for design in 2025.

05.12.2024 10

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Post-COVID life and China’s tough economy pushes a 95-year-old jewelry brand to embrace ‘wearability’ and a more casual consumer

“Everyone is a lot more casual. You have a lot fewer galas and things to go to," said Nicholas Lieou, Chow Tai Fook's design lead for high jewelry.

02.12.2024 10

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Trump’s victory could make life harder for Hong Kong—and that may be good news for Singapore’s banks

Banks like Singapore's OCBC are poised to gain from Chinese investment into Southeast Asia—now potentially supercharged by a new Trump trade war.

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How streamers helped designer Malin Leschly on her ‘winding path’ to become Logitech’s chief design officer

“Streamers want to look good, they want to sound good, and they want to have control over what they do,” she says.

24.11.2024 10

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CEOs and experts share how AI is shaking up the workforce—including an instance of ‘robots outcompeting humans in real time’

Chinese startups can develop digital avatars almost as good as human streamers using just a few minutes of footage, noted McKinsey's Rodney Zimmel.

14.11.2024 6

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How digging into data saved Coach’s famous Tabby bag from a premature end

Falling sales almost ended Coach's Tabby bag prematurely. Data helped save the viral handbag.

13.11.2024 10

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Architect Bjarke Ingels: I’ll have a construction site on the moon by 2032

The Bjarke Ingels Group is working with NASA on Project Olympus, an effort to construct buildings on the moon.

13.11.2024 10

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Singapore’s former UN ambassador says the world will be a ‘calmer place’ if Harris wins—but momentum is on Trump’s side

“At the end of the day, Trump is crazy but he’s not mad,” Kishore Mahbubani said Monday in a conversation with Clay Chandler, Fortune executive...

04.11.2024 10

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Apple darling Goodnotes expands to provide AI tools for ‘less technically inclined teachers’

The winner of Apple's 2022 "iPad App of the Year" award turned one of its meetings rooms into a mock classroom to figure out what teachers needed.

03.11.2024 6

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‘When in doubt, turn to Xiaohongshu’: A social media platform and its young, female, Chinese user base transforms travel and shopping

Xiaohongshu cofounder and President Miranda Qu is ranked No. 60 on the Fortune Most Powerful Women Asia list this year.

08.10.2024 6

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Capital for Asia, rooted in Asia: How Singapore’s Jenny Lee wants to rethink venture capital

Lee shares her journey from building fighter jets to managing a $5 billion fund focused on Asian companies.

08.10.2024 7

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Alibaba adds $8bn in value on first day mainland Chinese investors can directly trade its Hong Kong-listed shares

Alibaba shares jumped 4.2% in Hong Kong on Tuesday after the company joined Hong Kong's Stock Connect scheme.

10.09.2024 10

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Just one Asian organization is among the top 20 largest donors in the world, as the region’s philanthropy lags the U.S.

The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust donated an average of $507 million a year, making it the top in Asia—and 15th globally.

09.09.2024 10

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Customer service chatbots are buggy and disliked by consumers. Can AI make them better?

Speakers at Fortune Brainstorm AI Singapore shared how how they're already using AI to make customer service faster and more useful.

10.08.2024 7

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Can Southeast Asian countries work together to regulate AI? ‘We love each other and yet…we’re always looking over our shoulder’

"Bigger markets in the region [are] leaning towards protecting their own domestic market," said Gullnaz Baig, executive director of the Angsana...

07.08.2024 9

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Singapore’s minister says AI is not the new oil—it’s way better

Singapore's minister for digital development and information explained why the country is poised to be an AI powerhouse.

30.07.2024 3

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China’s businesses are ‘noticeably ahead’ of the rest of the world when it comes to adopting AI—and preparing for the inevitable regulations

A survey from SAS finds that 80% of Chinese business leaders are already using GenAI in their organization's operations.

09.07.2024 6

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Japan may have escaped deflation only to risk stagflation instead, as the country's economy slumps for 3 straight quarters

Japan's economy shrank by an annualized rate of 2% in the first quarter of 2024, as a weak yen and inflation drag down spending.

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Overcapacity is a ‘fake concept’, says the international head of a major Chinese carmaker: ‘They don’t know what is happening in my house’

Chinese EV makers are pushing back against the idea that their success in making affordable cars is due to state help.

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Beijing narrowly escapes having to cover the debts of developer Country Garden

Last week, Country Garden revealed that it had missed an interest payment on onshore bonds guaranteed by a state-owned financial firm.

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A Chinese tech firm's PR chief apologizes after her social media posts demanding workers be available '24 hours a day' sparks outrage

Baidu's head of PR recently took to Chinese social media to tell workers not to complain about long business trips and to be available "24 hours a...

09.05.2024 20

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BYD reiterates that it has no plans to sell in the ‘very protective’ U.S.—but hopes that things might get ‘back to normal’ after the election

BYD Americas CEO Stella Li said the U.S. EV market was in a "confusing stage," citing policy uncertainty and slowing consumer adoption.

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Australia’s prime minister calls Elon Musk an ‘arrogant billionaire’ after the X owner accuses the country's government of censorship

Australia's social media watchdog is asking X to block content regarding a violent attack in Sydney last week for all users globally.

23.04.2024 10

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Beijing wants to make it easier for Chinese companies to list in Hong Kong

On Friday, China's top markets regulator announced several measures to more tightly connect Hong Kong's and mainland China's stock exchanges.

22.04.2024 20

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Apple CEO Tim Cook says ‘we’re investing’ in Indonesia fresh off his pledge to spend more on Vietnam suppliers, continuing his Southeast Asia charm offensive

After Vietnam, Cook then flew further south to Indonesia—and said Wednesday that he’s ready to “look at” the country’s manufacturing sector.

17.04.2024 10

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Apple loses its spot as the world's top seller of smartphones after tough China competition from brands like Xiaomi and Huawei

Korea’s Samsung sold the most phones in Q1 2024, according to research firm IDC, as Apple loses market share to Chinese competitors.

15.04.2024 30

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Huawei continues its comeback from U.S. sanctions, unveiling a new laptop with a homegrown OS and AI—and an Intel processor

Huawei is pushing its way back into China’s tech sector with an array of homegrown, high-end products.

12.04.2024 10

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Alibaba shares jump after founder Jack Ma says the company is successfully fixing the 'diseases of a big company'

Ma is being more vocal about Alibaba's direction as the Chinese tech giant struggles to implement its ambitious restructuring plans.

10.04.2024 10

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The CEO behind the world’s #2 TV brand thinks the U.S. is driving deglobalization, thanks to Biden's tech controls on China

"We are really talking about deglobalization of technologies, represented by the U.S.,” TCL founder Dongsheng Li said Wednesday.

01.04.2024 20

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Larry Summers, a 'friend of China,' warns Beijing that its actions are making it hard for people like him to push for stronger ties

Summers compared the U.S. and China to “two guys who don’t like each other much" stuck in the same lifeboat "a long way from shore."

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Worsening tensions between China and the U.S. will make Hong Kong and its ‘unique status’ even more important, says the city’s top financial official

“We are different from the rest of China, in terms of our way of doing things in business," Chan said on Wednesday at the Fortune Innovation Forum.

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Paytm once had India's largest IPO. Now a central bank crackdown could kill its business: 'A risk that the political system couldn’t take'

As India's markets boom, regulators are targeting the country's shadow banks. Paytm, once Indian startup royalty, is getting the brunt of it.

10.03.2024 10

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Akira Toriyama's death is being felt around the world as global leaders and millions of fans remember one of Japan's most influential icons

“I wanted to make manga like yours! I wanted to be like you!” Masashi Kishimoto, author of the Naruto series, said of Toriyama on Friday. 

08.03.2024 10

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Why Japan's stock market is breaking 35-year records even as its economy falls into recession: Welcome to the investing world of 'not that bad'

The stock market is not the economy—just look at what's happening in Japan. 

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Huawei shrugs off U.S. sanctions to take top place in China’s smartphone market—but its new AI chips might be an even bigger achievement

Huawei is staging a comeback as investments in domestic manufacturing of smartphone and AI chips appear to pay off.

06.02.2024 10

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Lionel Messi no-show in Hong Kong costs organizers $1.9M in government grants

The furore around Inter Miami's decision to bench its biggest stars is the latest blow to Hong Kong's drive to repair its post-COVID image.

05.02.2024 20

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India speaks over 100 languages. Microsoft wants AI to bridge its linguistic gaps

AI doesn't work very well with more obscure languages. Microsoft's researchers are trying to change that.

28.01.2024 20

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Beijing is asking banks not to ‘blindly withdraw loans’ to China’s troubled real estate developers as Evergrande faces critical liquidation hearing

The looming liquidation hearing over indebted developer Evergrande could undo confidence again.

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Nippon Steel appeals to ‘an alliance that advances shared values’ between the U.S. and Japan as it tries to sell its $14.1 billion deal for U.S. Steel

Nippon Steel's president promised not to shift U.S. jobs overseas as he defends his play for U.S. Steel from Congressional blowback.

23.01.2024 20

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Alaska Airlines’s faulty Boeing door plug was made in Malaysia—and that’s complicating investigations into why it ripped off mid-flight

“We have no indication right now of where in the process this occurred,” said NTSB chair Jennifer Homendy.

18.01.2024 7

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China set to overtake Japan as world's top auto exporter

And Chinese car exports are set to grow from here, predicts UBS.

10.01.2024 7

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China’s carmakers need to design electric cars twice as fast as established companies if they want to survive the country's cutthroat EV market

Established car companies may take five years to develop a new model. Chinese EV companies need to do that in half the time.

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