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Australia’s Mogami order is also a test of its shipbuilding capacity

Australia has bought a Japanese frigate design. The politically important industrial promise is that later ships will be built domestically, subject to Henderson’s consolidation. The designated yard is currently proving itself on much simpler vessels.

1 October 2026 · Australia · Japan

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Indonesia’s child-safety rule puts risk filing alongside under-16 deactivation

PP TUNAS requires electronic-system operators to assess and file their child-safety risk profile. Services classified as network and social-media services must deactivate under-16 accounts unless the minister decides otherwise. Komdigi said TikTok had already deactivated about 1.7 million accounts in Indonesia.

22 September 2026 · Indonesia · ASEAN

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Korea makes the memory. Taiwan packages it. Japan enables the yield.

TSMC is adding packaging capacity rapidly, but C.C. Wei still says packaging is limiting customers’ growth. SK hynix is shipping HBM4 under long-term contracts while demand still exceeds supply. Tokyo Electron’s HBM tools sit in the manufacturing layer that helps the join yield.

24 September 2026 · Korea · Taiwan · Japan

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Snowflake in ASEAN: The data layer beneath the AI boom

Southeast Asia's AI opportunity is partly constrained by the fragmented data companies are trying to run models on. Snowflake is selling infrastructure for that problem, as firms move from experimenting with AI to putting it into the business.

15 September 2026 · Singapore · Indonesia · Malaysia · Thailand · ASEAN