Sarah Chew covers Southeast Asia’s technology, fintech, digital policy, and AI adoption landscape for RECATOOLS. Her work focuses on how regulation, platform shifts, and emerging technologies affect businesses, consumers, and digital markets across Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines.

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Aerial view of Manila, with high-rise towers lining a brown river and dense low-rise housing spreading behind them.
ASEAN Tech

The Philippines May Make Its National ID the Age Check for Social Media

The statistics authority says PhilSys can confirm an age threshold without exposing a name. The privacy commission wants the check to return yes or no, and nothing else.

16 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
Jakarta's high-rise skyline at dusk, with office and residential towers under a pink and blue sky.
ASEAN Tech

Indonesia Says X Has No Office There, and May Make Platforms Open One

X had locked about 250,000 under-16 accounts against an estimated seven million. Indonesia's minister says platforms may be required to keep a representative office.

15 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
A rendered grey ballot box with red arrows converging on it — illustrating a platform built to steer voters towards a result.
ASEAN Tech

An Istanbul Firm Built a Voter-Targeting Platform for All 222 Malaysian Seats

Anthropic says the operators used census data, a thousand fake X accounts and a fake news site — and pitched Malaysia's communications regulator. The MCMC says that is not its business.

14 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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ASEAN Tech

Philippine Telcos Will Spend $2.2bn in the Year Their Moat Was Removed

A new law lets competitors build networks without an act of Congress. The three incumbents answered by committing $2.2bn to reach households first.

14 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
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ASEAN Tech

Malaysia Ranks Second in ASEAN. The Index Is the Operators' Own.

The GSMA placed Malaysia behind Singapore on infrastructure, data governance, cybersecurity and AI policy. Three of those four pillars score policy, not outcomes.

13 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
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ASEAN Tech

ASEAN's Digital Agreement Is Worth $2 Trillion. Four Per Cent Have a Plan.

A survey of 184 firms found 35 per cent had not heard of DEFA and 49 per cent had heard of it and not looked at it. The respondents are the well-resourced ones.

12 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Finance

DeepSeek Hired Bankers. That Is Not the Same as Filing to List.

Four underwriters for a STAR Market float, a pre-IPO round near $74.5bn, and no prospectus. The reports do not agree on whether the listing lands this year or in 2027.

11 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
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Finance

Forus Raised Less Money at Three Times the Price, Four Months Later

A $150m Series C at $3bn follows a $160m Series B at about $1bn in May. The founders sold roughly five per cent instead of sixteen.

9 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Finance

Mistral Raised €3 Billion. The Gigawatt by 2030 Is Not Funded Yet.

Mistral's Series D is led by Samsung at a valuation above €21 billion, nearly double last year's. The money is for compute, and TCS committed about $7.4 billion for a comparable gigawatt campus this month.

9 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Finance

Asian Chip Stocks Rallied on GPT-6 Astra. The Independent Index Scored It Flat.

MSCI Asia Pacific rose 1.3 per cent on compute-demand optimism. Artificial Analysis put Astra at 61, exactly its predecessor's score, at 2.5 times the token price.

8 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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