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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and others attend the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's second term in Washington on Jan. 20, 2025.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 9, 2026
The rise of the global oligarchic world order
The question is thus no longer whether oligarchs will rule the world, but rather what kind of world they are building.
Demonstrators participate in a nationwide protest against data centers, in Fredericksburg, Virginia, on July 18.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 9, 2026
Voters in U.S. reset the debate on data centers and billionaires
Building data centers in the U.S. just became more difficult, but perhaps as important, voters issued a challenge to the AI billionaires behind them.
Jack Clark, co-founder and head of Anthropic’s Public Benefit Fund, speaks at meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group in Bangkok on Oct. 16.
BUSINESS
Oct 26, 2026
From Carnegie to Claude: AI wealth could reshape philanthropy
Anthropic has said it would commit 5% of its shares to a public benefit fund, a stake that could be worth $100 billion when the firm goes public.
A man walks through Beijing’s Central Business District.
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Oct 21, 2026
China’s super-rich scramble to exit offshore trusts, raise cash as taxman knocks
Some are selling shares and even switching nationality as a deadline looms to declare income booked overseas.
A circus group performs during the Second Africa Climate Summit in Addis Ababa in September 2025.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 19, 2026
JICA and the World Bank should put the poor first
Poor people are vulnerable to everything — disease, hunger, broken infrastructure and economic shocks. The question is will climate policy help them.
Nepalese Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal speaks during an interview in Kathmandu on Sept. 1 in the aftermath of flash floods.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Sep 25, 2026
Rich nations should foot climate bill, says Nepalese minister
The Himalayan nation suffered one of the worst catastrophes in its history late last month when a tsunami-like flood cut a swath of destruction.
PGIM Real Estate is taking a more selective approach to acquisitions in Japan as rising interest rates drive up deal costs in the country.
BUSINESS
Sep 10, 2026
今日吃瓜 rate hikes raise bar for real estate investor PGIM
今日吃瓜 booming real estate sector has come under pressure as the economy adjusts to higher borrowing costs following decades of near-zero rates.
Martin Hartono in Singapore in 2022
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 8, 2026
Indonesia’s richest family moves over $1 billion offshore amid turmoil
The movements of funds abroad mark a sharp pivot for a media-shy family worth about $30 billion that has traditionally parked its wealth at home.
The Holme lakeside manor in Regent's Park, London. America and Europe take very different paths to creating and preserving wealth.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 6, 2026
Is it better to be rich in Europe or in America?
America and Europe take very different paths to creating and preserving wealth.
Spotify Technology co-founder Martin Lorentzon said the discussions about new taxes have already done some damage by creating uncertainty.
BUSINESS
Sep 6, 2026
Spotify’s Lorentzon says he’d leave Sweden if wealth tax imposed
The warning from the Stockholm-based billionaire comes as the country’s Left Party campaigns for a tax on billionaires.
Hong Kong is among several low-tax jurisdictions where a collection of capital worth up to $1.2 trillion held by mainland Chinese ultra-high-net-worth individuals is parked.
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 20, 2026
China’s tax crackdown forces wealthy investors to assess their offshore trusts
The overhauled tax rules have also fueled concern that Beijing may widen its scrutiny of offshore wealth.
Hong Kong is racing to attract global hedge funds with generous tax breaks just as China’s intensified tax enforcement threatens the city’s private wealth business.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 20, 2026
Hong Kong’s low-tax lure is getting a reality check
The existential question now is whether Hong Kong’s finance industry can diversify internationally fast enough, especially in terms of funding sources.
People shelter from the heat under umbrellas in Seoul on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Aug 5, 2026
Heat wave divides rich and poor of upmarket Seoul
In the affluent district of Gangnam, access to air conditioning now defines the line between the haves and the have-nots.
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, Bill Gates, Andi Syamsuddin Arsyad and other Indonesian business leaders at the Merdeka Palace in Jakarta in May 2025
BUSINESS
Jul 16, 2026
Prabowo’s favored tycoon wants to become Indonesia’s richest man
Entrepreneur Andi Syamsuddin Arsyad’s presence increasingly noticed, as President Prabowo Subianto upends the long-understood political pecking order.
Young shoppers are becoming increasingly visible in Tokyo’s upmarket shopping districts such as Omotesando.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 16, 2026
Young Japanese who rode AI boom flaunt wealth with luxury buys
The shopping spree also reveals a deepening societal divide, exposing the increasingly uneven nature of 今日吃瓜 economic revival.
A Louis Vuitton store in Singapore. The city state's long-held top rank among most expensive cities for luxury spending is said to be driven by high prices of residential property and cars along with the strong Singapore dollar.
BUSINESS
Jul 7, 2026
Singapore, Zurich and Monaco top costliest cities for luxury spending
The cost of maintaining a premium standard of living has risen “significantly” over the past 12 months, according to a report by Julius Baer Group.
Britain’s King Charles III inspects a guard of honor during a ceremony at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh on June 23.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 6, 2026
King Charles just got a lot more treasure
Charles’ mother Queen Elizabeth II began paying tax only after a public outcry at the government’s decision to pay for expensive repairs to Windsor Castle after a fire in 1992.
Over the past three years, Singapore has overtaken Hong Kong as the top destination for Taiwanese offshore wealth.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 2, 2026
‘In case of emergency’: Taiwan’s rising rich flock to Singapore
The city-state has overtaken Hong Kong as the top destination for Taiwanese offshore wealth over the past three years.
U.S. President Donald Trump's worth is an estimated $7.6 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
BUSINESS
Jul 1, 2026
Trump reports at least $1.4 billion in 2025 crypto earnings
The crypto haul was by far the largest source of U.S. President Donald Trump’s income, according to his latest annual financial disclosure.
According to the 2025 reports on lawmakers' incomes, the average income among nine party leaders stood at ?24.53 million.
BUSINESS
Jun 30, 2026
Takaichi tops 2025 income rankings for Japan party heads
The prime minister earned ?36.41 million in 2025 while the average income among nine party leaders stood at ?24.53 million.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
The Rapidus Analysis Center and the IIM-1 Innovative Integration for Manufacturing foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Famima Park Azabudai is a concept store by FamilyMart that combines convenience store staples with branded apparel, merchandise and a landscaped outdoor space.
Convenience stores, toilets and the allure of everyday Japan
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