Rounding up top investing articles from around the web, including articles shared on Twitter. North Korea’s Kim orders military to accelerate war preparations: State media (Straits Times) North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered its military, the munitions industry and the nuclear weapons sector to accelerate war preparations to counter what he called unprecedented confrontational moves by the US, state media said on Dec 28. Speaking on the policy directions for the new year at a key meeting of the country’s ruling party on Dec 27, Mr Kim also said Pyongyang would expand strategic cooperation with “anti-imperialist independent” countries, news agency KCNA reported. S’pore’s start-ups a top draw in region in challenging year; investors eye AI, green tech in 2024 (Straits Times) The Republic was the largest venture capital market in South-east Asia in the first nine months of 2023, with local venture-backed firms accounting for 64 per cent of the region’s total deal volume, up from 56 per cent in the same period in 2022,...