Digital Economy

ASEAN Tech 4 min A Quarter of Singapore's Small Firms Now Use AI. Most Workers Who Want Training Have Not Had It IMDA's annual report puts the digital economy at 19.3% of GDP. Workers say employers not sending them is the m... DA Daniel Koh 8 Oct ASEAN Tech 6 min 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 meeti... SA Sarah Chew 20 Sep ASEAN Tech 6 min 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 a... SA Sarah Chew 12 Sep Business 6 min A Google Office in Islamabad Is Not a Pakistani IT Export IT exports are domestic firms invoicing foreign clients. A foreign company registering locally sits on the oth... EV Eva Chin 31 Aug ASEAN Tech 8 min ASEAN Signs One Digital Rulebook in November. Its Members Keep Writing Their Own DEFA negotiations concluded in May and signature is set for November. In the ten weeks between, five member st... SA Sarah Chew 6 Aug Business 9 min Vietnam Put a Vietnamese Language Model on Its List of Strategic Technologies Decision 21/2026/QD-TTg names ten strategic technologies and thirty strategic products. One of them is large-s... EV Eva Chin 5 Aug ASEAN Tech 5 min ASEAN Tech Summit Convenes in Manila as the Region's Digital Trade Pact Heads for a November Signing Organisers expected more than 4,000 delegates in Pasay City on 28–29 July, under the Philippine chairship. Neg... SA Sarah Chew 2 Aug ASEAN Tech 6 min 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, fin... SA Sarah Chew 2 Jun ASEAN Tech 5 min Indonesia's Digital Economy Nears $100 Billion — And SMEs Are Finally Getting Their Share Indonesia's digital economy was on track for nearly US$100 billion in 2025, according to the e-Conomy SEA repo... RE RECATOOLS Editorial 6 May ASEAN Tech 4 min The Philippines Is One of ASEAN's Fastest-Growing Digital Economies The Philippines is one of ASEAN's fastest-growing digital economies, driven by e-wallet adoption, BPO expansio... RE RECATOOLS Editorial 5 May ASEAN Tech 5 min ASEAN Fintech Is Moving From Pilot to Platform — And 99% of Regional Firms Stand to Benefit Recent WEF and Money20/20 data show ASEAN fintech maturing: Funding Societies has disbursed over $4.38 billion... RE RECATOOLS Editorial 5 May