ASEAN Tech News

ASEAN Tech 4 min

ASEAN TECH · 1 Jun 2026 —

Thailand's First Virtual Bank Licence Goes to CLICX — KTB, AIS, and OR Joint Venture Launches 19 June

Thailand's first virtual bank licence has been issued: CLICX — the KTB, AIS, and OR joint venture — received its operati...

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Sarah Chen

1 Jun

ASEAN Tech 4 min

ASEAN TECH · 1 Jun 2026 —

Grab Takes Majority Control of Indonesia's Superbank as Singtel Transfers Its Stake to GXS

Grab Holdings will consolidate Indonesia's Superbank — a six-million-customer digital lender with IDR 24 trillion in ass...

SA

Sarah Chen

1 Jun

ASEAN Tech 5 min

ASEAN TECH · 1 Jun 2026 —

Vietnam Proposes Crypto and Digital Assets as SME Loan Collateral in $144 Billion Credit Market

Vietnam's Ministry of Finance is consulting on draft legislation that would let SMEs pledge digital assets, virtual asse...

SA

Sarah Chen

1 Jun

ASEAN Tech 5 min

ASEAN TECH · 1 Jun 2026 —

IBPAP to Revise Philippines IT-BPM Roadmap as AI Outpaces 2022 Assumptions

IBPAP announced at the National AI & Skills Summit on 1 June 2026 that its 2022 industry roadmap — which projects US...

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Sarah Chen

1 Jun

ASEAN Tech 4 min

ASEAN TECH · 30 May 2026 —

Hong Kong's First Astronaut Is a Police Computer-Forensics PhD — and She's Now Aboard China's Tiangong Station

When Shenzhou-23 lifted off on 24 May 2026, one of the three people aboard was Lai Ka-ying — a serving Hong Kong Police...

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Sarah Chen

30 May

ASEAN Tech 13 min

ASEAN TECH · 22 May 2026 —

Singapore Orders Critical-Infrastructure Cybersecurity Reviews as Frontier AI Cuts Exploit Development From Months to Hours

On 5 May 2026, Singapore CSA formally wrote to CII boards requiring AI-resilient cybersecurity reviews — citing the new...

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RECATOOLS Editorial

22 May

ASEAN Tech 8 min

ASEAN TECH · 20 May 2026 —

MAS Issues Binding GenAI Banking Guidelines — Five-Bank Sandbox, Cross-Border Implications for ASEAN Finance

The Monetary Authority of Singapore published its long-awaited binding guidelines on generative AI use by banks on Tuesd...

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Sarah Chen

20 May

ASEAN Tech 8 min

ASEAN TECH · 19 May 2026 —

Grab Rolls Out ML Dispatch v3 Across Six SEA Markets — Driver Earnings Up 4%, Indonesia Drivers Cry Foul

Grab's revamped dispatch system began rolling across Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines and Vietnam o...

SA

Sarah Chen

19 May

ASEAN Tech 7 min

ASEAN TECH · 8 May 2026 —

Southeast Asian Airlines Enter an AI Transformation Era as Singapore Airlines, Malaysia Airlines and Scoot Modernise Cabins and Operations

Singapore Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, Vietnam Airlines, Thai Airways, and Scoot have all announced cabin upgrades and o...

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RECATOOLS Editorial

8 May

ASEAN Tech 9 min

ASEAN TECH · 8 May 2026 —

Singapore's Semiconductor Firms Eye US Expansion as AI Boom Reshapes Global Chip Supply Chains

Singaporean semiconductor companies are establishing US operations to capture AI chip supply chain opportunities, spurre...

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Jeffrey Tan

8 May

ASEAN Tech 8 min

ASEAN TECH · 8 May 2026 —

ASEAN+3 Finance Ministers Chart Unified Cross-Border Payment Future as Tokenisation Emerges as Next Frontier

The 29th ASEAN+3 Finance Ministers' Meeting endorsed connected cross-border payment architecture and tokenisation, with...

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Jeffrey Tan

8 May

ASEAN Tech 8 min

ASEAN TECH · 8 May 2026 —

From Johor to the World: How the JS-SEZ Is Becoming Southeast Asia's AI Infrastructure Powerhouse

The Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone is rapidly evolving into Southeast Asia's primary AI infrastructure cluster, d...

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RECATOOLS Editorial

8 May