Southeast Asia

ASEAN Tech 6 min Ledger Says Criminals Hid Seed-Stealing Implants in Wallets Sold Through Southeast Asian Resellers Sales are paused in seven markets while Ledger investigates. It links every confirmed loss to one Malaysia-bas... SA Sarah Chew 19 Oct Cyber Threat Intel 4 min US Report Finds a 'Government Pattern' of Trafficking in Cambodia's Scam Centres The State Department kept Cambodia at Tier 3, saying officials profited from scam compounds and no scam-centre... PR Priya Nair 15 Oct ASEAN Tech 4 min Southeast Asians Are Split on AI's Environmental Cost, and One in Six Say They Use It Less AI tools use a lot of electricity but may aid climate work. Asked to weigh the two, 47.9% of 3,706 people acro... SA Sarah Chew 3 Oct Science 5 min Waves, Not Just Tides, Decide Where Mangroves Can Take Root on Open Coasts Where mangroves grow has mostly been explained by the tides. A Nature study of 400 coastal sites finds that on... NA Nadia Rahim 2 Oct ASEAN Tech 3 min 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 h... DA Daniel Koh 1 Oct Health & Wellness 4 min Infections Caused 2.3 Million Cancers in 2024, and a Larger Share in Southeast Asia An IARC analysis in The Lancet Oncology attributes one in eight new tumours worldwide to infectious agents. In... AM Amelia Wong 1 Oct Business 6 min Grab Paid $1.49bn for a Lending Business It Chose Not to Build The cash is only half the arrangement. What the remaining 40 per cent will cost has already been fixed by a fo... EV Eva Chin 19 Sep ASEAN Tech 6 min 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 valuat... SA Sarah Chew 16 Sep Cybersecurity 7 min Xinbi Guarantee Moved $24 Billion. The Seizure Took $52.8 Million. The United States seized the marketplace's Telegram channels and restrained $52.8 million, about two tenths of... PR Priya Nair 11 Sep Consumer Tech 6 min Two of the Five New Android Features Need a Phone Most of This Region Does Not Have Google's September Android Drop adds five features, and two of them need Android 16 or 17. The best of the fiv... AM Amelia Wong 11 Sep AI & ML 5 min Meta Bought Stilla.ai, an Eight-Month-Old Startup, to Run WhatsApp's Shop Counter Stilla.ai left stealth in January on $5m. The price is undisclosed, the durable asset is two ex-Shopify founde... MA Maya Lin 11 Sep Cybersecurity 8 min Nova Ransomware Claims Indonesia's National Food Agency in Latest Government Sector Hit Nova ransomware listed Badan Pangan Nasional (Bapanas), Indonesia's National Food Agency, on its leak site on... CY Cyber Team 2 Jun