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The Batam Investment Awards 2026 were held on Oct. 30 at the Grand Mercure Batam Centre as part of the 55th anniversary celebrations of the Batam Free Trade Zone Authority (BP Batam), recognizing businesses whose contributions extend beyond capital investment to technological innovation, employment creation, environmental responsibility and long-term economic development. 	(All images courtesy of BP Batam)
The Batam Investment Awards 2026 were held on Oct. 30 at the Grand Mercure Batam Centre as part of the 55th anniversary celebrations of the Batam Free Trade Zone Authority (BP Batam), recognizing businesses whose contributions extend beyond capital investment to technological innovation, employment creation, environmental responsibility and long-term economic development. (All images courtesy of BP Batam)`
Economy

Batam celebrates 55 years of industrial transformation

The celebration comes as the island’s investment reaches Rp 59.73 trillion in the first nine months of 2026, representing 85.33 percent of its annual target.

9 hours ago
Tech premium

E-commerce drives Indonesia’s 16% digital economy growth

Indonesia’s e-commerce market continues to expand despite economic and regulatory headwinds as platforms compete for increasingly price-conscious consumers while businesses look to artificial intelligence and digital finance for further growth.

9 hours ago
Regulations premium

Govt to reassess B50 biodiesel mandate amid supply, funding concerns

The higher blend has raised concern among palm oil industry players that increased domestic consumption could squeeze feedstock supplies and weigh on exports.  

12 hours ago

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Government to maintain fuel subsidies despite rising expenditure

The government has reaffirmed its intention not cut fuel subsidies despite surging global oil prices, banking on strong revenue growth to get the 2026 state budget safely to the finish line.

15 hours ago
Regulations premium

RI-Singapore discuss joint action on tax evasion, transfer pricing

The neighboring countries plan stronger data-sharing and joint measures to tackle corporate tax compliance issues.

15 hours ago
Companies

Microsoft outage spills into Asia-Pacific business hours

The outage hit government agencies in Australia, Japan and the United States, as well as companies including OpenAI and Anthropic. It is the second disruption to Microsoft's 365 services this year, raising concerns that repeated failures could push corporate clients to question Microsoft's reliability.

16 hours ago
Companies

Nvidia CEO Huang quits after affair with suspected China spy

Huang was a central figure in the boom set off by the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT in 2022, with Nvidia’s processors, once designed for video game graphics, becoming the crucial ingredient for building AI models.

19 hours ago
Markets

Dollar near 19-month high on Fed hike bets, yen tests 160

The dollar held near a 19-month high on Friday after a strong week of gains on rising bets of a larger Federal Reserve rate hike, pushing the Japanese yen back near the key 160 mark that has left traders on alert for intervention.

21 hours ago
tech

WIDTH, Nawadata partner to support compliance and risk management

WIDTH is an artificial intelligence-driven, all-in-one compliance and risk decision intelligence platform while Nawadata builds software for banks and financial institutions.

2 days ago
tech

France claims Iran behind 'unprecedented' cyberattacks on fridges

France on Monday said Iran's Revolutionary Guards were behind cyberattacks on supermarket fridges in the country last month, vowing sanctions on a European level against Tehran over the first such large-scale cyber-sabotage on French territory.

3 days ago
tech

Google unveils $15b data center investment in Malaysia

Malaysia accounts for more than half of under-construction data center capacity among Southeast Asian countries, including Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam.

1 week ago
tech

Crypto exchanges call for quick moves to bolster defenses after Binance heist

The industry will need to move urgently, analysts and industry executives said, as United States President Donald Trump's regulators promote deeper integration of digital assets into the financial system, raising the stakes for an industry with a history of big hacks.

1 week ago
economy

China's trade surplus soars past $1 trillion as AI boom powers exports

China's trade surplus surged past US$1 trillion in the first 10 months as a global race to build AI infrastructure buoyed sales of high-tech products and helped offset weak domestic demand, even as imports to the world's second-largest economy grow at a faster pace that its exports

3 days ago
companies

Microsoft outage spills into Asia-Pacific business hours

The outage hit government agencies in Australia, Japan and the United States, as well as companies including OpenAI and Anthropic. It is the second disruption to Microsoft's 365 services this year, raising concerns that repeated failures could push corporate clients to question Microsoft's reliability.

16 hours ago
companies

Nvidia CEO Huang quits after affair with suspected China spy

Huang was a central figure in the boom set off by the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT in 2022, with Nvidia’s processors, once designed for video game graphics, becoming the crucial ingredient for building AI models.

19 hours ago
markets

Dollar near 19-month high on Fed hike bets, yen tests 160

The dollar held near a 19-month high on Friday after a strong week of gains on rising bets of a larger Federal Reserve rate hike, pushing the Japanese yen back near the key 160 mark that has left traders on alert for intervention.

21 hours ago
markets

Asian stocks fragile, Nvidia plummets as board to decide CEO's fate

Global stocks wobbled at the start of Asian trade on Thursday, while Nvidia shares plunged in after-hours trading on news that its board may oust longtime CEO Jensen Huang.

1 day ago
markets

Bonds reel as hot inflation fuels jumbo Fed hike fears

Global bonds tumbled and the dollar stayed firm after a hot United States inflation print and hawkish central bank rhetoric raised the risk of an outsized half-point rate hike from the Federal Reserve next month, though stocks remained resilient.

2 days ago
markets

Tech stocks stage partial rebound while dollar gains after US jobs data

Tech shares rose Friday, recovering a fraction of losses from the prior session's rout as the dollar rallied after better than expected US jobs data.

6 days ago

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