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Singapore bars Alice Huang from re-entry as Asia-Pacific governments absorb Nvidia-Huang fallout

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TechCrunch's survey of Asian capitals finds Singapore barred Alice Huang from re-entry after investigating Megaspeed's chip-export declarations and determined she'd knowingly provided inaccurate information about her role, though prosecutors lacked evidence of offenses in February. South Korea got Nvidia to reaffirm its 260,000-GPU commitment and joint AI projects, Taiwan said Nvidia's planned overseas HQ remains on track, Japan pledged close monitoring of the chipmaker's supply role, and Beijing rejected espionage allegations as 'groundless' while flagging concerns over $3B in Chinese AI projects built on restricted Nvidia processors.