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The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), after it issued new guidelines for marketing and advertising of cryptocurrency services in the city state on January...

Myanmar’s military government implemented a hefty raise of the commercial tax on Internet services on January 8, state-run newspaper Global New Light of Myanmar...

Credit card fraud in the Philippines skyrocketed 21 per cent since the Covid-19 pandemic started in early 2020, an industry group said. This is...

Internet outages orchestrated by Myanmar’s military junta to curb nationwide protests against the February 1, 2021 coup d’état resulted in economic damages for the...

The Philippine central bank is confident to reach its target of 50 per cent of retail payments being conducted digitally in less than two...

Thailand is getting one step further in the deployment of electricity-powered motorcycle taxis and canal boats for public transportation with an aim to reduce...

Illegal streamers of copyrighted content might want to think twice about offering their services in Malaysia on the Internet and/or sell related hard- or...

Nearly four million people in the Philippines fell into poverty in the first half of 2021 due to lockdown measures induced by the Covid-19...

The opening of the new high-speed train line in Laos has filled the last gap in what is now the longest continuous railway route...

Myanmar’s parallel government opposing the military junta, the National Unity Government (NUG), has recognised crypto currency Tether as an official currency for local use...

Singapore took over the first place from the US in the latest Global Crypto Ranking for the fourth quarter 2021 by Irish fintech startup...

Vietnam and Indonesia have both ambitious plans to leave their status as developing countries with an emerging lower-middle income status behind and reach developed...

US social media giant Facebook said it will start removing and subsequently ban companies linked to Myanmar’s military from operating on its platform. The...

Rohingya refugees from Myanmar are suing Facebook’s parent organisation Meta Platforms for as much as $150 billion over allegations that the social media company...

Thailand is considering allowing casino operations in the country, ending a decade-long ban of gambling that covers all forms except the state lottery and...

Malaysia’s national capital of Kuala Lumpur has been ranked best city to live and work globally in the newly released Expat City Ranking 2021...

In most parts of the developed and developing world, today’s youngest workforce cohort, the millennials, are tech-savvy youngsters attracted by respective city jobs, tech...

This year’s English Proficiency Index by Swedish language training company EF Education First has just come out, and, once again, it is not very...