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Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has lauded Mitsubishi Corp.'s investment of $700 million in energy firm Ayala Corp as among the largest foreign equity investments in the Philippines in recent years.

Infineon has completed its acquisition of Bengaluru-based C2i Semiconductors, adding digital power-management expertise for AI data centers.

Japan's Sumitomo Bakelite will expand production capacity for advanced semiconductor encapsulation materials for chip production at its plants in Suzhou, China, and Singapore, installing new production lines at both sites.

Chinese industrial robotics developer Changzhou Microintelligence has passed a Hong Kong Stock Exchange listing hearing, advancing its proposed IPO.

TCGX has closed an oversubscribed $600 million fund to invest across stages in Asia-based biotechnology companies and is opening Hong Kong and Shanghai offices.

Syfe has launched Income+ Max, a Singapore portfolio combining equities, bonds, gold and call options to target 8–10 percent annual distributions.

SQREEM Technologies (SQREEM), an AI-powered behavioural intelligence and data analytics company, has been appointed under the Singapore Government’s Whole-of-Government Digital Consumption Analytics Services Period Contract and Framework Agreement (2nd Edition).

The capital will be used to support developing economies in Southeast Asia, including Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia and Thailand, which rely on high-emitting fossil fuel power generation, to transit to a renewables-based future.

FPT, among the largest tech firms in Vietnam Vietnam, and South Korea's NAVER Cloud will jointly develop and sell artificial-intelligence (AI) services across Asia-Pacific.

Two American businesses, WEX Inc. and payments group Mastercard, will combine fuel, maintenance, tolling, and parking payments for vehicle fleets into a single system across Asia-Pacific.