Vanguard FTSE Developed Asia Pacific ex Japan UCITS ETF Distributing WKN: A1T8FT ISIN: IE00B9F5YL18

South Korean artificial-intelligence startup RLWRLD (pronounced “real world”) is working with to create an extensive library of human expertise, harvested from skilled workers across industries, to develop AI brains for robots that could be coming to industrial sites and homes. It collects similar data from logistics workers at CJ, capturing how they grip, lift and handle goods in warehouses, and from staff at a Japanese convenience store chain Lawson, tracking how they organize food displays.

https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-ai-robots-rlwrld-c3e00f5264e109b8b767559e9e09c3dc

https://www.focus.de/politik/ausland/groesser-und-billiger-als-f-35-neuer-kampfjet-greift-die-vormacht-der-us-modelle-an_2accbb0d-5faa-49e5-af9d-a29f17c5ba0a.html

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/hungry-sell-uae-slips-hidden-oil-tankers-through-strait-hormuz-2026-05-07/

Samsung Electronics hat im ersten Quartal die Erwartungen übertroffen. Wie die Nomura-Analysten CW Chung und Eon Hwang in einer Research Note schreiben, profitierte das Unternehmen dabei von dem anhaltenden Superzyklus bei Speicherchips. Starke Preise für DRAM- und NAND-Speicherchips sorgten demnach für erhebliche Einnahmen. Zusätzlich habe ein schwächerer koreanischer Won die Halbleitersparte angekurbelt. Gleichzeitig sanken jedoch die Betriebsgewinne in den Sparten Mobilfunk und Haushaltsgeräte im Jahresvergleich, da die Speicherpreise stiegen und der Wettbewerb sich verschärfte.

https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3348642/australia-and-japan-face-jet-fuel-supply-crunch-china-cuts-exports

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/indonesias-social-media-curbs-kids-set-saturday-few-know-how-it-will-work-2026-03-27/

In its analysis published on Sunday, strategic advisory firm BowerGroupAsia said Singapore’s semiconductor industry might come under increased scrutiny, with the city state producing one in 10 chips worldwide and 20 per cent of global semiconductor equipment output

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3347044/us-trade-probes-risk-alienating-asean-casting-doubt-future-deals

Tesla hat nach Angaben der US-Regierung eine Liefervereinbarung zum Bau einer Batteriezellenfertigung im Wert von 4,3 Milliarden Dollar unterzeichnet. Der Elektroautohersteller und die südkoreanische LG Energy Solution werden in Lansing/Michigan gemeinsam eine Produktionsstätte für Lithium-Eisenphosphat-Batteriezellen errichten. Die Produktion soll 2027 starten, wie das Innenministerium mitteilte. LFP-Batterien bieten eine sicherere, langlebigere und kostengünstigere Alternative zu herkömmlichen kobaltbasierten Batterien. Die neue Lieferbeziehung könnte für Tesla im Hinblick auf Importzölle wichtig sein. Überdies will das Unternehmen seine Abhängigkeit von China verringern.

Hyundai laid out an aggressive road map: a US robot manufacturing plant with annual capacity of 30,000 units by 2028, with pilot deployments beginning at its Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America in Georgia.

https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10685783

A combination of a strong initial public offering (IPO) market and bond sales has helped put Hong Kong’s financial health back in the black sooner than expected, with analysts expecting a robust pipeline of listings to be key to sustaining the city’s surplus. In his budget speech on Wednesday, Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po said the city was previously expected to record a HK$67 billion deficit for the 2025-26 financial year, which ends on March 31, but emerged with an estimated HK$2.9 billion consolidated surplus.

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3344776/hong-kong-records-hk29-billion-consolidated-surplus-2025-26-heres-how

China and the Philippines may soon start joint coastguard patrols in the South China Sea after years of tensions over the disputed waters, according to a Philippine senator. Erwin Tulfo, chairman of the Senate’s foreign relations committee, met Chinese ambassador Jing Quan on Monday, and said afterwards that the two countries’ coastguards were expected to sign a memorandum of agreement by the end of March.