Tech and Education

Innovative educational technology companies (edtechs) in Vietnam are increasingly on the radar of international private equity firms as education gets more digitised not only...

Singapore-based banking group DBS, Southeast Asia’s largest lender by assets, has teamed up with The Sandbox, a blockchain-based Metaverse gaming platform, to develop new...

Vietnamese electric vehicle maker VinFast will ship about 5,000 vehicles to customers in the US, Canada and Europe in early November, according to a...

Chinese car maker BYD Auto said it would set up a facility in Thailand to start producing 150,000 passenger cars per year from 2024. The...

US co-working company WeWork has unveiled its flagship office tower in Singapore as it expands in the Asian financial hub, which is among its...

Qatari telecommunications company Ooredoo is about to sell its Myanmar operations to Singapore-headquartered technology firm The One Matrix Ventures, Reuters reported, referring to insiders. Ooredoo...

The Indonesian government is planning to establish its envisaged “crypto stock exchange” by the end of 2022, DealStreetAsia cited the country’s deputy trade minister...

A joint venture of three Thai companies in the petroleum industry has announced plans to make aviation fuel from used cooking oil. The project will...

Cryptocurrency adoption in Singapore has risen despite a hardline approach of the city-state’s financial market regulator, a new survey shows. According to data from Australia-based...

Indonesia’s biggest e-commerce company GoTo on August 30 posted a half-year net loss of 14.17 trillion rupiah ($955 million), more than double compared with...

Singapore-headquartered Grab, a ride-hailing-turned-e-commerce group and once Southeast Asia’s most valuable startup, is falling behind Indonesian competitor GoTo in the public financial markets. The downturn...

Apple supplier Foxconn has signed a memorandum of understanding with Vietnamese developer Kinh Bac City to expand its existing manufacturing facility in the north...

Indonesia has urged US electric vehicle maker Tesla to manufacture its cars and vehicle batteries in the country, Bloomberg News cited the nation’s President...

Cambodia in a first for Southeast Asia’s developing countries will introduce a pilot scheme to add financial literacy into school curricula, the Phnom Penh...

The poverty rate in the Philippines rose to 18.1 per cent of the population in 2021, equivalent to nearly 20 million poor Filipinos, as...

Vietnam now has earmarked up to $58.7 billion for its planned high-speed railway from the north to the south of the nation, the government...

The number of initial public offerings (IPO) at the Philippine Stock Exchange will probably rise to a record this year, with a value of...

Vietnam spent an average 4.9 per cent of its gross domestic product (GDP) or 18 per cent of the state budget annually on education...