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US, China Firms Vie For Slice of ASEAN Data Centre Market – ST
US, China Firms Vie For Slice of ASEAN Data Centre Market – ST

From Google, Amazon and Microsoft to Alibaba and Tencent, US and Chinese tech firms have set up or are building dozens of data centres in countries such as Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia

China Using Drones to Map And Survey Antarctica
China Using Drones to Map And Survey Antarctica

Scientists in Australia and other countries with a keen interest in Antarctica have been closely following China's activities in the southern polar region

Popular NFT Game Stepn Cuts Off China Users – CryptoSlate
Popular NFT Game Stepn Cuts Off China Users – CryptoSlate

Stepn lets users buy and trade NFTs and in-game crypto by walking or running in the real world and they then convert in-game earnings to other crypto or cash

Hong Kong’s Babel Defies Crypto Rout With $80m Fundraising
Japan’s Opn Payments Firm Secures $40m to Boost Asia Growth
Davos ‘Old Guard’ Greets Crypto Newcomers With Scepticism
US Bill Would Ban Digital Yuan from Google, Apple App Stores
Alibaba Earnings up on High Online Demand Amid Lockdowns
China Lockdowns Holding up New iPhones – Nikkei
Baidu Cloud, AI Services Draw $4.2bn in March Quarter

Fintech: The Big Picture

ASML in the Centre of the Chip War

With a market cap of$240 billion, chipmaker ASML is Europe’s most valuable tech company. Its market-leading position comes from its monopoly in Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV) machines which allow chipmakers to make smaller, faster and smarter semiconductors