Singapore Refreshes Its National AI Strategy: 10 Priorities, Four Missions, and a Bet Against a Two-Speed Economy
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Singapore Bets on Being AI's Neutral Ground — Just as US Chip Rules Put the Middle Under Scrutiny
As Singapore AI Week and SuperAI 2026 open with a pitch to be 'neutral ground' for a fracturing AI industry, fresh US ch...
Singapore's Regulator Just Opened the GenAI Data Question — Founders Should Read That as a Signal, Not Wait for the Fine Print
On 2 June 2026 the PDPC opened a public consultation — closing 1 July 2026 — on proposed guidelines for using personal d...
CSA Flags GlobalProtect Auth-Bypass CVE-2026-0257 as Critical While Attackers Forge VPN Cookies in the Wild
Singapore's CSA rates a GlobalProtect authentication-bypass flaw critical (9.1) — sterner than Palo Alto's own HIGH rati...
Indonesia’s AI Ready ASEAN Pact Turns AI Literacy Into Regional Infrastructure
Indonesia’s new AI Ready ASEAN agreement with the ASEAN Foundation shows how AI adoption in Southeast Asia is becoming a...
Mastercard Switches On AI-Agent Payments in Singapore and Malaysia
Mastercard has taken agentic commerce live in its first two ASEAN markets, letting verified AI agents pay on a cardholde...
Sea's three engines fire at once: Shopee, Monee and Garena drive a 47 per cent revenue jump
Singapore's Sea Limited posted first-quarter revenue of US$7.1 billion, up 47 per cent, as its e-commerce, fintech and g...
Threat Brief, Week of 18 May 2026: Suspected State-Backed Espionage in Malaysia, a Malware-Signing Takedown, and the Defender Itself Under Fire
Our weekly threat read: suspected state-backed espionage against Malaysian government networks, a Microsoft malware-sign...
The AI SOC arms race lands in ASEAN: Flocks, Claude, and the agentic security stack of mid-2026
On 6 May 2026, ThreatBook launched Flocks and SafeSkill into an AI SOC category that already includes Claude-backed Acce...
HealthTechX Asia 2026 Convenes 50+ Speakers and 90+ Partners in Singapore — MOH National Digital Health Update Headlined
HealthTechX Asia's second edition ran 6–7 May 2026 at Sands Expo, with more than 50 speakers and 90 startups and corpora...
Malaysia Fintech 2030 Launches Talent-Pipeline MoU at Money20/20 Asia in Bangkok
The Fintech Association of Malaysia's MoU with Manaf Gardner Associates, announced at Money20/20 Asia on 2 May 2026, nam...
ASEAN+3 Finance Ministers Chart Unified Cross-Border Payment Future as Tokenisation Emerges as Next Frontier
The 29th ASEAN+3 finance ministers' meeting backed building on local currency payment systems and pursuing tokenisation,...
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