Penang’s new air cargo park is built on a 42-hectare site, with main construction scheduled for the first quarter of 2027 and a Free Commercial Zone warehouse targeted for 2029. The Malaysian Investment Development Authority published those dates on 29 October 2026 in its description of the Penang International Logistics Aeropark (PILA). The project is […]
Day: November 12, 2026
Southeast Asia ecommerce GMV: how channels split in 2026
Three published readings of southeast asia ecommerce gmv are routinely placed in the same chart, and they do not describe the same thing. e-Conomy SEA 2026 puts digital economy GMV at US$368 billion for 2026, up 17 per cent, with ecommerce at US$226 billion, up 18 per cent. Momentum Works records 2025 platform ecommerce GMV […]
Indonesia PT PMA minimum capital: the 2026 rules
Under Pasal 26(10) of BKPM Regulation No. 5 of 2025, the pt pma minimum capital floor for a foreign-investment limited liability company in Indonesia is Rp2.500.000.000,00 per company, recorded in the official 698-page PDF as modal ditempatkan/disetor. Pasal 26(2) of the same regulation sets a separate investment-value test above Rp10,000,000,000, computed per five-digit KBLI and […]
Vietnam industrial park costs: North vs South in 2026
CBRE put the average asking rent for northern industrial land at US$143 per square metre per lease cycle in Q2 2026, up 2.9% year on year, against US$185 in the south, up 3.7%, and that north-south split is the only published anchor for a vietnam industrial park cost model. Net absorption in the north reached […]
Thailand’s Senior Care Boom Has a Billing Problem: Who Pays When 45 Percent Retire With Nothing
Nursing homes ran at 81 percent occupancy in 2025 while the state allowance pays 600 baht a month. An arithmetic check on Thailand’s silver economy. The lobby of a mid-range nursing home in Chiang Mai does not look like the site of a funding crisis. The intake paperwork is thorough, the nurses are certified, the […]
The UAE Put AI in Every Public School Classroom and Four Myths Spread Faster Than the Curriculum
From kindergarten stories to Grade 12 prompt engineering: what the 2025-2026 UAE AI curriculum requires, and what it never promised. Walk into a Year 3 classroom at Dubai British School Jumeira Park on an ordinary weekday and you will see a seven-year-old chatting with an AI-generated Willy Wonka, while another child interviews a virtual polar […]
Global Wealth Added 89 Fortunes a Day. The Door to Professional Money Management Has a Queue.
713,626 UHNW individuals in 2026 and Singapore family office approvals at 10.5 months: three paths into wealth infrastructure and what each truly costs. Walk the corridor of any family office gathering in Singapore this year and the same queue shows up in conversation after conversation. A founder who sold a logistics business in 2024 is […]



