Singapore Weighs Legal Action Over the Haze. Malaysia Says That Would Mean Severing Ties
Timor-Leste has shut schools and the region's haze monitor is at its highest alert. Singapore's environment minister say...
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UnionPay Says Its QR Network Reaches Every ASEAN Country
The figure was disclosed at a trade fair in Nanning, not audited. A 90 per cent fall in fraud at pilot banks arrives wit...
ASEAN Pulls Its Upgraded Trade Pact Forward. The Date Is Not Settled.
Singapore's deputy prime minister named the end of this year. The host country's own readout of the same meetings gives...
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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...
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 thos...
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...
Vietnam Will Teach AI in Every Grade. The Compulsory Core Is 12 Periods.
Every grade, 50,000 institutions, 27 million students. Then read the allocation: 12 periods a year, which is roughly one...
The Planned US Chip Tariffs Would Tax Assembled Laptops and Servers, Not Just Chips
A tariff on semiconductors sounds like a tax on wafers. The plans reported this week reach the finished laptop, phone an...
Vietnam and Singapore Named Six Technology Fields and Zero Dollars
Six domains named at a first strategic dialogue, with no funding, timelines, targets or institutional mechanism attached...
Malaysia's 6GW Data Centre Pipeline Is Announcements, Not Connections
Malaysia leads a regional pipeline of more than 6GW. Its own utility reports 8.3GW of pipeline, 3.8GW under construction...
ASEAN's Record $4.12m Breach Cost Comes From 26 Companies
IBM discloses the sample size and the coverage drops it. The comparisons inside the study — 123 days faster detection wh...
Vietnam Wants Design Work Now, Not Just Assembly
Hanoi pressed Qualcomm and Samsung to deepen AI and semiconductor investment. The $500bn Samsung export figure being quo...
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