ASEAN Tech

Indonesia's OJK Fines Unnamed Parties Rp2.1 Trillion Over DSSA Trading and BREN, CUAN Share Allocations

Indonesia's market regulator says shares were manipulated and IPO allotments steered to disguised buyers. It came a day after MSCI floated demoting the country's stock market.

19 Oct 2026 · 6 min read

ASEAN Tech

Singapore Serves Haze Notices on Seven Indonesian Firms

NEA's notices order the companies to fight fires and stop burning. Fines or charges are within consideration, Grace Fu said, but cross-border cases are hard to investigate.

17 Oct 2026 · 4 min read

Finance

Doubling times from the rule of 72 fit interest compounded once a year

The rule of 72 estimates the years money takes to double by dividing 72 by the yearly interest rate. It works best when interest is added once a year; with an APR compounded monthly it gives 2.6% to 3.85% too many years at every rate from 0.5% to 30%.

16 Oct 2026 · 6 min read

ASEAN Tech

Singapore Says It May Act Against the Firms Behind the Haze. Its 2015 Haze Cases Are Still Open

PM Wong cited the Transboundary Haze Pollution Act as unhealthy air persisted. Four investigations from the 2015 haze are still open.

16 Oct 2026 · 5 min read

ASEAN Tech

Malaysia Has Fast-Tracked 27 Data Centres Worth RM226 Billion. It Did Not Say How Much Power They Need

Sixteen of the projects are in Johor. A parliamentary reply detailed 4,053 jobs and local content, while earlier figures put data centres at 31% of electricity by 2035.

15 Oct 2026 · 4 min read

ASEAN Tech

Singapore and Google DeepMind Build a Scam Detector That Reads Chats Only on Your Phone

GovTech fine-tuned Gemma on local scam conversations to warn users in real time without sending messages to anyone. It is not yet in any app.

15 Oct 2026 · 4 min read

ASEAN Tech

Singapore Wants Organisations to Finish Switching to Quantum-Safe Encryption by 2035

The Cyber Security Agency asks exposed organisations for a migration plan by the end of 2027, gives critical infrastructure until 2031, and offers a grant for pilots.

14 Oct 2026 · 4 min read

ASEAN Tech

Indonesia Passed a Law to Give Its Government One Set of Data, and Parliament a Veto on Sending It Abroad

The One Data law sets a single national reference for budgets and welfare, a 24-hour incident-reporting deadline, and a new agency answering to the President.

12 Oct 2026 · 4 min read

Finance

IFRS 16 puts leased equipment on a lessee's balance sheet

Under IFRS 16 and its Singapore and Malaysian equivalents, a lessee records most equipment leases as an asset and a debt, so the lease expense runs higher in the early years and lower in the later ones. IRAS usually allows a deduction for the contractual lease payments instead, and a SaaS contract that gives only access to the software is a service contract.

7 Oct 2026 · 6 min read

ASEAN Tech

Singapore Will Not Demand Early Access to Frontier AI Models, but Signals Tougher Rules for Risky Uses

A written reply to Parliament says a rigid requirement could backfire. Essential services may face independent testing and tighter oversight. No agent attack on government has been reported.

7 Oct 2026 · 4 min read