Vietnam Edged Past Thailand in the Global Innovation Index. WIPO's Own Ranges Call It a Tie.
The 2026 rankings put the two neighbours one place apart, inside overlapping confidence intervals. Singapore held 5th, a...
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Singapore's Newest Chip Fab Opened in Record Time. Volume Production Starts in 2027.
VSMC, owned by Vanguard and NXP, opened its Tampines plant after 22 months of construction. It is in trial production no...
The Philippines Blocked Discord for a Day, Without a Court Order
The block followed a 24-hour ultimatum over child safety and ended after the platform promised new measures. The legal b...
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Thailand's Top Court Rules Ballot Barcodes and QR Codes Did Not Break the Secret Vote
The unanimous ruling keeps February's election valid. Identifying a voter would need three locked records linked, and fu...
Thailand's THIM Immigration App Reads Your Passport Chip and Scans Your Face
THIM launched formally on 25 September with the digital arrival card on board. The bureau plans to add visa extensions a...
Amazon's Vietnam Satellite Licence Covers Testing Dishes, Not Selling Internet
Hanoi granted Amazon Kuiper a nationwide private network on 23 September to test terminals made in the country. Starlink...
Ho Chi Minh City Utility Warns Data Centres It May Cut Power in Tariff Dispute
The dispute is over which electricity rate applies, and 11.35 billion dong is owed. The same week, a US-funded study beg...
Singapore's Second and Third Mobile Operators Confirm Talks
StarHub and Keppel told the exchange on 23 September that they are discussing M1, while stating there is no certainty wh...
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...
The Philippines Gets Its First Big AI Cluster in 2027
The deployment takes Aolani past 48,000 accelerators and 100 megawatts. The split between the two countries, the sites a...
An Investor Paid Above Market for Enablence's Vietnamese Chip Capacity
Enablence sold 3,226,000 shares at C$7.75 to a single buyer for about C$25 million. A Foxconn unit has been building its...
LionsBot Said Profitability Was a Year Away. The Loss Grew.
Revenue rose 19.3 per cent in 2025 while the net loss widened to S$21.25 million, against a stated ambition to break eve...
Singlife Says AI Cut Handling Time 30%. It Never Published the Baseline.
A year on from launch there is still no starting figure and no headcount, so the improvement has nothing public to be me...
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...
Singapore Is Testing Excavators With No One in the Cab
JTC wants one operator supervising two machines. The reason it gives is not cost, and the trial is running where nobody...
Anthropic Opens in Singapore on the Strength of One Statistic
Nine roles, a general manager hired from Google Cloud, and a per-capita usage figure the company measured about its own...
Indonesia Sets Child-Safety Fines at 6% of Global Revenue
A foreign platform is measured against its worldwide turnover; an Indonesian medium firm against a fixed ceiling of abou...
Green SM Calls Jakarta Its First International Market. It Is Not.
The press release went round the world with that claim attached. Underneath it is the part that matters: what Vingroup i...
The Philippines Froze Its Own Tech Budget to Summon Zuckerberg
Lawmakers deferred their own technology department's 2027 budget to force Meta to answer on child safety. The lever they...
Data Centres Took 4% of Peninsular Malaysia's Power; Moody's Sees 31% by 2035
Meeting that needs 14 to 17 gigawatts of new capacity at up to RM95 billion, while 13 gigawatts of existing plant expire...
Plaud Bets S$20m That Singapore Can Teach Its AI to Code-Switch
A wearable recorder company put its regional base at Marina Bay because Singapore meetings change language mid-sentence,...
OpenAI Is Funding an NTU Tool That Predicts What People Do With Handouts
Trained on a million people's actual spending records, not surveys. Half the grant is model credits, and the data is Sou...
Firmus Wants A$7bn on the ASX, With OpenAI as Its Anchor Tenant
Seven claimed AI factories across Australia, Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia, 900MW contracted, and a valuation that f...
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...
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