Lorelai Jacinto had worked as a domestic helper in Riyadh for two and a half years before she flew home to the Philippines on September 19, increasingly worried that the conflict in the Middle East was making it unsafe to stay. “When the conflict with Iran happened, I started feeling like it wasn’t safe there any more because I was right there in Riyadh myself, so the bombing, the missiles, were closer to us,” Jacinto told This Week in Asia. “I got worried, I got scared that maybe I wouldn’t be...

The cryptocurrency sector experienced a severe and sudden decline over the last 24 hours. Bitcoin fell 2.28 per cent to US$81,370.58. The broader digital asset ecosystem mirrored this downward trajectory, dropping 2.22 per cent to a total valuation of US$2.74 trillion. An unexpectedly hot United States inflation report drove this widespread selloff across all major […] The post Institutional buyers face a massive test at the US$81,000 Bitcoin support level appeared first on e27.

Here is an uncomfortable finding for anyone building a 2027 marketing plan this month: audiences are warming to advertising, and marketers are growing less sure that theirs works. That tension sits at the centre of Kantar’s Media Reactions study, published on 2 October and based on interviews with more than 800 senior marketers and 23,000 […] The post Every dashboard is green. So why can’t anyone say what worked? appeared first on e27.

Malaysian property tycoon Lee Yeow Seng is making waves as one of the most aggressive buyers of commercial real estate in Singapore, and he is not done yet. His IOI Properties Group is in exclusive talks and due diligence to purchase two property assets – Chijmes, a retail venue inside a former Catholic convent in its civic district, and the nearby Capitol Kempinski hotel, CEO Lee said in an interview. He declined to disclose how much a final agreement will value the two assets at, citing...

Malaysian property tycoon Lee Yeow Seng is making waves as one of the most aggressive buyers of commercial real estate in Singapore, and he is not done yet. His IOI Properties Group is in exclusive talks and due diligence to purchase two property assets – Chijmes, a retail venue inside a former Catholic convent in its civic district, and the nearby Capitol Kempinski hotel, CEO Lee said in an interview. He declined to disclose how much a final agreement will value the two assets at, citing...

Every few weeks, another report tells the same story about Southeast Asian tech: capital has fled, deals have dried up, and the region’s startup engine has stalled. The most recent numbers make the case forcefully. Zero dedicated regional private equity funds reached final close in the first half of 2026. Three pan-Asian mega-funds — EQT, […] The post Southeast Asia’s funding winter is real. Its building winter isn’t appeared first on e27.

For many companies expanding into Southeast Asia, hiring is no longer the hardest part. The bigger challenge is often what comes after: setting up a local entity, complying with employment regulations, running payroll and moving money across borders without unnecessary delays or excessive costs. Singapore-headquartered TalentHero, co-founded by Oliver Lewis (CEO) and James Miles (COO), […] The post TalentHero, DeeMoney form Thai JV to connect hiring, payroll and payments appeared first on e27.

Southeast Asia’s online shoppers spent the better part of a decade being nudged to stop handing cash to the courier. They are finally listening, though not in any single, tidy way. Cash-on-delivery (COD), long the default in markets where card ownership was thin and trust in online merchants thinner, made up about half of e-commerce […] The post Cash-on-delivery is dying in Southeast Asia. Six different wallets are taking its place appeared first on e27.

Singapore will “keep its options open” on taking legal action against errant companies as air quality in the city state significantly deteriorated this week due to choking haze stemming from Indonesian wildfires. The government is collecting data on the haze as it weighs possible action under its Transboundary Haze Pollution Act, Sustainability and Environment Minister Grace Fu told local media on Wednesday evening. The law, enacted in 2014, targets those responsible for causing or condoning...