SEAWeekly - Ep 33: Budget Credibility, Kota Kinabalu, and the AI Budget Signal
Emily Chen talks with Chloe Tan about why ASEAN budget season is now a credibility test at the funding line, not a competition in headline spending. Most of the episode stays with Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines, before a shorter detour through Kota Kinabalu travel logic and enterprise artificial intelligence budgeting to show how low-friction execution wins across very different lanes.Full transcript and links are available at https://seaweekly.com/podcasts/southeast-asia-weekly/2026-10-11-budget-credibility-kota-kinabalu-ai-signal/
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