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Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto apologised on Sunday for the transboundary haze from forest and land fires in his country that has affected Singapore and Malaysia, according to a statement from the Indonesian Presidential Secretariat. The statement, issued late on Sunday following the first day of the 49th Asean Leaders’ Summit in Manila, said Prabowo had conveyed the apology on behalf of the Indonesian government and people while assuring regional leaders that his country had done its...

Support has continued to build across the tech industry for Jensen Huang, with figures including Elon Musk rallying behind the former Nvidia CEO and an unverified online petition calling on the board to reinstate the company’s founder. Organisers of the “Stand with Jensen” campaign, who describe themselves as Nvidia employees, partners and shareholders, urged the board to “bring Jensen back while an independent investigation establishes the facts”, according to an open letter on the initiative’s...

As the technology world debates how Nvidia is likely to fare without Jensen Huang, analysts keep returning to the same analogy: the departure of legendary CEO Steve Jobs from Apple. The similarities between the two cases are clear: a top American tech company forced to move on from a visionary leader. And Apple’s history is all the more intriguing given it replaced Jobs twice – with dramatically different results. Huang resigned from Nvidia on Thursday amid media reports of his alleged...

Megaspeed, the Singaporean company caught in the Nvidia controversy, has pushed back against reported claims about its supply chain practices and distanced itself from former CEO Alice Huang. The firm said in a statement on Sunday that it “conducts legitimate and lawful business” and had hired external legal counsel to investigate media reports concerning its business, supply chain and global operations. Megaspeed said Huang officially left the company on August 30, 2025, and no longer had any...

The South Korean government said Nvidia’s existing partnership commitments to Seoul remain intact despite disgraced CEO Jensen Huang’s departure from the artificial intelligence giant. However, uncertainties linger as remarks by Elon Musk and others suggest that much of the cooperation may have relied on Huang’s personal verbal commitments. The Ministry of Science and ICT said it held a meeting with Nvidia officials on Friday, a day after Huang resigned as the company’s CEO, and confirmed that...

Malaysia’s plans to allow registered refugees to work legally have raised hopes among their communities that have long relied on precarious informal employment to survive, even as Thailand’s experience suggests that such a move is only part of the solution. Thailand has reportedly thousands of refugees taking up formal jobs under a scheme introduced last year. As for Malaysia’s initiative, refugee advocates say it will need clear registration procedures and workplace safeguards to make it...

China has ushered artificial intelligence into its cinemas, but the country’s first fully AI-generated feature film has flopped at the box office. Made with no human actors or camera crew, Sanxingdui: Future Past brought in just around 1.8 million yuan (US$270,000) after three weeks in theatres, according to Chinese box office data tracker Beacon Pro. The figure was well below the film’s reported budget of tens of millions of yuan. The 100-minute sci-fi film is set in a world decades in the...

Alina Radulescu, 38, has stayed in Italy, the United States and Thailand for months at a time. Now, the IT consultant from Romania shares a co-living space in Seoul with 11 other digital nomads – and says she’s never been happier. “There’s a certain vibe in Korea,” she said. “These days, I’m just so happy when I realise that I’m living here.” Her affinity for South Korea grew gradually through friends in Romania and dance classes where her teacher played K-pop. She first discovered Korean...

China, India, Pakistan, Indonesia and Japan didn’t join the singing contest in Bangkok. That left some of the region’s best-known musical cultures out of the mix.

So far, the contest’s organizers have kept politics offstage. The European edition shows how difficult that can be.

South Korean police said on Sunday they had launched an investigation after the top scorer in a national tax accountant exam confessed to using artificial intelligence to cheat. The test taker, who ranked first in both rounds of the national qualification exam held in April and July, submitted a written confession through his lawyer and acknowledged using AI to obtain answers during the tests. He scored 397.5 out of 400 points in the first round, getting just one of 160 questions wrong, sparking...

For some ⁠people, the blue, green and white striped socks hanging near the entrance of a FamilyMart convenience store may look more like an emergency purchase than a fashion statement. Yet the 390 yen (US$2.44) socks have become one of Japan’s best-known products at convenience stores, which are usually the go-to for snacks and drinks. With 40 million pairs sold since 2021, they have helped FamilyMart reinvent itself as a lifestyle brand in the competitive conbini market. Now, Japan’s...