Mukesh Ambani’s real power lies not only in the size of Reliance, but in how he uses its balance sheet. Profits from mature businesses can finance new industries long before public markets are ready to price them.
Japan does not lack capital. Its challenge is making that capital move. Through Hiromi Yamaji and the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Altair Media examines how governance reform, higher interest rates and changing corporate behaviour are reshaping the way Japanese capital is allocated.
Asia does not feed the world through sheer agricultural volume alone. Its real power lies in concentrated food flows — from rice and palm oil to aquaculture, coffee and spices — that global markets cannot easily replace.
In Kuala Lumpur, shopping malls have evolved beyond retail. Shaped by climate, mobility and urban density, they increasingly function as places where people meet, work and spend time—raising a broader question about how cities organise public life in the twenty-first century.
Samsung reported record profits and investors responded by selling. The reaction may reveal less about semiconductor demand itself and more about a changing market psychology as the AI economy moves from deployment towards productivity.
European companies and Chinese companies often compete in the same markets. Yet they frequently operate within very different economic architectures. Understanding those differences helps explain why debates about subsidies, trade and industrial policy have become increasingly central to relations between Europe and China.
The internet is no longer confined to apps, platforms and screens. Across Asia, sensors, embedded systems and connected infrastructure are transforming factories, cities and energy networks into realtime computational environments — reshaping how societies operate, govern and compete.
SK Hynix’s €7 billion EUV order from ASML signals a deeper shift in the AI race. As demand accelerates, memory — not compute — is emerging as the critical bottleneck shaping the next phase of global technology power.
Global supply chains are not collapsing but being rewired. As companies diversify production beyond China, a new manufacturing geography is emerging across Asia, linking Southeast Asia, India and East Asia into a more complex and resilient network of trade.
For decades, Europe built its digital world from the ground up. Fibre followed roads. Mobile masts followed population density. Connectivity was something engineers could point at — tangible, terrestrial and geographically bounded. When networks failed, the causes were usually visible: a storm, a cut cable, a damaged site. That mental model is no longer sufficient.
