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• AI upends Singapore’s ‘quant Olympics’

  07-10-2026 23:00 via ft.com
  Nigerian student Victor Ayebameru takes first place in competition that identifies future hedge fund stars
  
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• Šefčovič goes to Beijing with a final plea to avoid an EU-China trade war

  08-10-2026 07:00 via ft.com
  Also in this newsletter: Burnham travels to Berlin to win EU friends
  
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• EU’s top trade envoy in China for tense talks over cars

  08-10-2026 06:37 via ft.com
  Brussels blames Beijing’s surging exports for the loss of tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs
  
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• EU envoy lands in China for last-ditch talks over car exports

  08-10-2026 06:37 via ft.com
  Brussels blames Beijing’s surging exports for the loss of tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs
  
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• World’s worst performing market must be ‘obviously more transparent’, wealth fund admits

  08-10-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Danantara’s chief investment officer says domestic institutions will support market that has been the world’s worst performer this year
  
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• The fertility clinic on Taiwan’s front line 

  08-10-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  China’s reproductive restrictions are sending women across the Strait to freeze their eggs
  
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• Oil companies are full speed ahead in the Middle East

  08-10-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Western groups look to new investment opportunities despite the chaos and heightened risks caused by the conflict with Iran
  
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• Japan’s small-cap cull is an opportunity for AI funds

  08-10-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Finding needles amid haystacks is a task for AI
  
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• Japan was never normal — and it’s not going to be now

  08-10-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  The LDP needs to rethink decades of small-business policy for an era of far bigger problems
  
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• Indonesia sovereign wealth fund calls for stock market transparency

  08-10-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Danantara’s chief investment officer says domestic institutions will support market that has been the world’s worst performer this year
  
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• Samsung profit surges ninefold to $80bn on AI chip demand

  08-10-2026 02:29 via ft.com
  World’s largest memory-chip maker posts record earnings for the three months to September
  
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• China races to build data centres in bid for AI supremacy

  08-10-2026 02:15 via ft.com
  Beijing is rolling out computing infrastructure at breakneck speed in Inner Mongolia
  
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• China races to build AI data centres across energy-rich hinterland

  08-10-2026 02:15 via ft.com
  In the first report of a three-part series, how Inner Mongolia became the engine room for the nation’s vast AI ambition
  
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• China slaps down EU request for voluntary curbs on hybrid car exports

  07-10-2026 18:56 via ft.com
  European Commission now considering temporary limits to control surging shipments that could trigger serious trade conflict
  
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• Japan beer giants raided over alleged price-fixing cartel

  07-10-2026 14:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Asahi, Kirin and Suntory confirmed their premises were searched by Japanese competition authorities.
  
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• Sri Lanka's ex-first lady arrested over alleged misuse of children's hospital donations

  07-10-2026 11:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The 73-year-old has been arrested over allegations that a charity she is linked to misused donations.
  
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• Japan to slash hundreds of stocks from Topix index in record revamp

  07-10-2026 10:15 via ft.com
  Move set to leave benchmark with under 1,000 constituents
  
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• India's opposition leader dragged on to bus as police break up protest

  07-10-2026 09:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Opposition leaders allege that CEC Gyanesh Kumar manipulated voter rolls to favour PM Narendra Modi's party.
  
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• India raises interest rates for first time in 3 years

  07-10-2026 09:04 via ft.com
  RBI points to higher inflation and energy costs as it shifts to ‘tightening’ outlook
  
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• Pornhub returns to Australia but only for adults with Apple devices

  07-10-2026 06:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The world's most popular porn site went dark in March in Australia due to age verification laws.
  
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• Former Australian bishop jailed for sexually abusing young men

  07-10-2026 06:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The former Bishop of Broome is one of the most senior Catholic clerics in the world to face sex abuse charges.
  
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• Japanese city accused of inflating census as country's population shrinks

  07-10-2026 05:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  As a result, Toyama city may have received more funding from the central government than it should have.
  
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• The taxman comes for China’s offshore riches

  07-10-2026 04:27 via ft.com
  The crackdown has rattled the country’s wealthiest people and the businesses in Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo that manage their money
  
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• India’s motorbike billionaire steering the tussle at Tata

  07-10-2026 04:14 via ft.com
  Venu Srinivasan cast the crucial vote in a boardroom battle that has captivated the corporate world and drawn in New Delhi
  
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• A beautiful Himalayan bird is changing its voice due to human activity, research shows

  07-10-2026 01:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A sharp increase in human activity is affecting the way the Himalayan monal lives and communicates, studies show.
  
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• Many Nepalis swept away in the floods aren't officially dead, leaving families in limbo

  07-10-2026 00:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Relatives are finding themselves with no compensation and facing an administrative nightmare.
  
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• FirstFT: Crypto company known for risky ‘perps’ vexes Singapore

  06-10-2026 23:35 via ft.com
  Also in today’s newsletter: Indian protesters demand electoral chief resigns and former German spy chief arrested for treason
  
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• ‘Most dangerous product in crypto’ vexes Singapore

  06-10-2026 23:00 via ft.com
  City-state averse to risk and scandal tries to distance itself from homegrown Hyperliquid Labs and its popular ‘perps’
  
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• Indian protesters demand electoral chief resign over alleged voter roll fraud

  06-10-2026 12:03 via ft.com
  Pressure mounts on PM Narendra Modi after youth-led unrest forced education minister’s exit
  
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• Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey trigger mutual defence pact over Houthis

  06-10-2026 12:02 via ft.com
  Turkey has not yet ratified agreement, making deployment of ground troops unlikely for now
  
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