Asia Intelligence Brief for Friday: South Korea's market fell sharply as a fight over who profits from the AI chip boom collided with a global technology slump; Japan's central bank nears a near-certain rate rise, and India and Southeast Asia held steady.

Asia Intelligence Brief for Thursday: Asian stock markets slipped a day after Japan's record, led by a sharp fall in technology shares and an 11% drop in SoftBank; the Japanese…

The sell-off was biggest in South Korea, where the Kospi index sank as much as 7 per cent. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.