A 450MW Batam Deal Is About Half the Island's Generating Capacity
Firmus, Nvidia and DayOne plan 360MW and up to 170,000 accelerators at Kabil, on a 450MW supply agreement. Batam's insta...
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The US Robot Ban Exempts Everything Already Approved
Every model authorised before 28 July keeps selling, so the American shelf does not empty. And the content rule names US...
Viettel Won Dominican Spectrum. It Has Not Built Anything Yet.
The award is 240 MHz across three bands for twenty years, which is a serious national allocation. It is also a regulator...
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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...
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...
Two Incidents Account for Half of the Philippines' 335 Million Exposed Records
Credentials are not records, records are not people, and 255 incidents are not evenly distributed. Reading Viettel's H1...
Vietnam's AI Law Has Been In Force Since March, And The Deadlines Start Next Year
Southeast Asia's first standalone AI law took effect on 1 March, applies to foreign as well as domestic entities, and gi...
The Project Linking ASEAN's Payment Systems Has A Company, A Tender And Two Go-Live Dates
Nexus would connect India's UPI, Singapore's PayNow and Thailand's PromptPay through one hub. Governance sits in a Singa...
The Philippines' AI Hub Would Need 16 Per Cent Of Luzon's Grid
Pax Silica at New Clark City is projected to require 3 gigawatts of electricity and 130 million litres of water a day. S...
Vietnam's Sovereign AI Data Centre Plan Starts At 20 Megawatts
A joint venture has announced a US$1bn, 100 MW national network built in three phases, beginning with 10-20 MW at Da Nan...
Three Philippine Rivals Want To Build One US$500m Undersea Backbone
PLDT, Globe and Converge have proposed a national submarine cable from Batanes to Palawan with seismic sensors built in....
Sea Grew Revenue 48 Per Cent, And The Loan Book Grew 62
Q2 revenue of US$7.8bn and Shopee GMV of US$38.3bn lead the release. The number that describes the company is Monee's US...
STT GDC Raised US$1.37bn For Johor, And Three Of The Four Lenders Are Regional
A green financing facility for a 166 MW campus at Nusa Cemerlang, coordinated by UOB Malaysia with OCBC, Standard Charte...
Skyro Reached Break-Even In Philippine Consumer Lending, Which Almost Nobody Does
About US$180 million disbursed in the first half, 1.9 times a year earlier, and operating profitability four years after...
MariBank Is Exporting a Model That Has Not Worked at Home Yet
Sea's Singapore digital bank lost S$55.6 million in 2025 and has about three years of its profitability window left. It...
An AI Data Centre Pact for Four ASEAN Markets, With No Capacity, Cost or Date
A SoftBank subsidiary, a Singapore developer and a Malaysian HPC firm will build AI data centres in Malaysia, Thailand,...
Manus Moved to Singapore. Beijing Blocked the Sale Anyway.
Meta is unwinding a US$2 billion acquisition that Chinese regulators blocked, and users have until 23 August to save the...
Vietnam's High-Risk AI List Takes Effect Tomorrow. Compliance Is Not a Defence.
Six sectors, mandatory conformity assessment, local presence for foreign providers - and strict liability for damages ev...
Indonesia Wants a Gigawatt. Singapore's Entire Market Is 1.46.
Zankore targets a gigawatt of AI computing capacity within three years, starting with 200MW at Batang in 2027. Set again...
CoreWeave Is Building 360MW in Indonesia. It Will Own the Compute.
Three facilities, 360 megawatts, online in 2028. The buildings will be in Indonesia and the machines inside them will be...
Sixty-One Years Against the Odds. Majulah Singapura, and Go Beyond.
Singapore turns 61 today, and the reasonable forecast in 1965 was failure. Rather than assert that the country has done...
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