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The future of audit: Governance safeguards quality and trust in AI era
Business, Lee Boon Teck, Published on 05/03/2026
» Auditing has long been the cornerstone of transparency and accountability in business. For much of its history, it has been a manual craft: imagine auditors working in conference rooms, sifting through piles of paperwork, and validating financial statements. This process, which relied on sampling, involved examining a subset of transactions as a proxy for the organisation's activities -- it was effective but limited by time and scale.
The AI tipping point for banks
Business, Mark Micallef, Published on 13/01/2025
» Generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) is rapidly transforming the financial services landscape. What began with experimental projects in 2024 is now gaining serious momentum, with many institutions moving Gen AI into full-scale production and seeing tangible results from their investments.
Chinese students a bonanza for listed international school
By Yoojung Lee and Anuchit Nguyen, Bloomberg News, Published on 06/07/2023
» The growing number of wealthy Chinese leaving their homeland has been a boon for Thailand’s only SET-listed school operator and turned its chief executive officer into a multimillionaire.
FDI to fuel a China-Asean shared future
Business, Giorgio Gamba and Mark Wang, Published on 13/06/2023
» In 2013, President Xi Jinping announced an initiative for China to work with Asean countries for a 21st century Maritime Silk Road to build a closer China-Asean community with a shared future.
Solving the energy challenge
Business, Paul Everingham, Published on 26/10/2022
» As Thailand's delegation prepares to travel to COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt in early November, it is crucial that we reflect on, and learn from, the momentous world events that have disrupted commitments made at the last climate summit in Glasgow less than a year ago.
How realistic are China's semiconductor ambitions?
Asia focus, Keun Lee, Published on 18/07/2022
» When US President Joe Biden landed in South Korea last month, he headed straight for Samsung's massive semiconductor factory outside Seoul. There, he met with South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and Samsung Electronics vice-chairman Lee Jae-yong, and praised the construction of a US$17-billion Samsung semiconductor factory in Texas. The economic and strategic importance of semiconductors could not have been made any clearer.
For EV battery makers, it's go small or go home
Business, Nick Carey and Paul Lienert of Reuters, Published on 12/07/2022
» CAMBRIDGE, England: In the race to go electric, carmakers have focused on range to ease consumer anxiety over charging infrastructure, but battery makers are already working on the smaller, longer-lasting and cheaper batteries of the future, which also charge more quickly.
How Bricks Might Save Clicks
Jinjoo Lee, Published on 25/04/2022
» The future of e-commerce could be coming to a local mall near you.
China's two traps
Asia focus, Keun Lee in Seoul, Published on 21/03/2022
» When Deng Xiaoping launched China's strategy of "reform and opening up" in 1978, economists in the West had their doubts. In their view, a vibrant market economy was fundamentally incompatible with China's authoritarian political system.
Ukraine War's Global Economic Impact Will Hit Poorest Hardest, OECD Says
Business, Paul Hannon, Published on 19/03/2022
» Russia's invasion of Ukraine will be felt by households around the world through higher energy and food prices, with disruptions to trade and fragile confidence contributing to a significant weakening of global economic growth, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Thursday.