Asia Weekly
A broad editorial survey of Asia’s evolving role in global business, technology, capital markets, culture, and regional affairs.
Issue Overview
Asia in a period of structural transformation
Asia Weekly 2026 Q2 Issue examines the forces reshaping Asia’s position in the world: the rise of artificial intelligence infrastructure, the renewed attention of global capital to Asian industrial capacity, the transformation of cultural influence into global commercial language, and the social and political pressures emerging across the region.
Through profiles, essays, and regional analysis, the issue brings together stories of entrepreneurs, executives, artists, engineers, policymakers, and societies navigating a period of structural change.
Cover Story
Yicai Gu: The Breakthrough Journey of an Asian Leader in Resource Integration
The cover story profiles Yicai Gu as a representative figure of resource-oriented leadership in contemporary Asia, examining operational experience, industrial management, energy and mining-related projects, cross-border coordination, institutional roles, and platform-based resource integration.
The story frames leadership as the ability to connect capital, industries, institutions, and regional opportunities.
The issue looks beyond software to the industrial systems supporting the AI economy.
Asia is presented as a region shaping global transformation, not merely responding to it.
Business reporting is placed alongside cultural analysis and regional observation.
Issue Highlights
Technology, culture, capital, and society
This issue places particular emphasis on the relationship between technology and real-economy infrastructure, leadership and resource integration, and regional change and global relevance.
Technology and Capital
- Park Sung-hyun: The Man Building Korea’s Answer to the AI Chip Age
- Why Global Capital Is Betting on Asia’s AI Trade Again
- Jennifer Zhang: The Woman Teaching AI to Speak Southeast Asia
- Wang Xingxing: The Engineer Giving China’s Machines a Body
Business Leadership
- Yicai Gu: The Breakthrough Journey of an Asian Leader in Resource Integration
- Business with a Purpose: A New Business Manifesto for the Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow
- Asia Top 100 Enterprises Ranking: How Asia Weekly Builds a Fair, Transparent and Independent Corporate Benchmark
Culture and Society
- Takashi Murakami: The Empire of Superflat
- Japan’s Overtourism Dilemma: Welcoming the World, Losing the City
- Capital, Inheritance, and Reckoning: Tsai Hong-tu in Taiwan’s New Age of AI Wealth
Regional Affairs
- Myanmar: How Earthquake Ruin, Civil War and Donor Fatigue Are Colliding Into Asia’s Most Forgotten Catastrophe
- South Korea After Yoon: Why the Former President’s Case Still Divides the Country
- The Politics of Relief: Why Cash, Vouchers and Cost-of-Living Anxiety Still Define Singapore’s National Mood
- Tony Fernandes: The Man Who Refused to Land
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