Innovation

Malaysia has come in the news for a rather unconventional, but nevertheless quite practical innovation: the world’s first unisex condom. According to an October 28...

Indonesian e-commerce giant GoTo will receive $400 million from the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), the sovereign wealth fund of the emirate of Abu...

Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo on October 15 ordered to halt license issuances for financial technology companies whose business entails digital lending to consumers and...

Singapore has plans to expand the city-state’s defense and security forces with mobile robots and through its state agency for defense science and technology...

Thailand’s PTT Oil and Retail Business, or PTT OR, a unit of state-controlled oil and gas firm PTT, is increasingly venturing into the non-petroleum...

Laos is adapting Cambodia‘s concept of introducing a government-backed cryptocurrency, the Japanese fintech involved last year in the creation of Cambodia’s digital money called...

A German startup company focusing on agricultural technology and indoor farming is nearing completion of a vertical mega-farm and research center in Singapore which...

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has come up with the idea to issue its own crypto coin in a bid to boost the...

Cambodian students have developed and designed a prototype drone from a school chair by adding a structure with eight propellers which is able to...

Thai fintech startup Ascend Money, whose investors include Alibaba affiliate Ant Group and Thailand’s privately-owned conglomerate Charoen Pokphand Group, after a recent financing round...

A Thai company has created the country’s first “virtual influencer,” a new species of fictional computer-generated personalities that are replacing real-life influencers on social...

Zoomcar, an India-founded car sharing marketplace covering emerging markets, announced on September 21 that it is expanding further in Southeast Asia by starting operations...

The Lao government has authorised six companies to trade and mine cryptocurrencies in a move seen as an attempt to benefit from the crackdown...

South Korean companies LG Energy Solution and Hyundai Motor Company began the construction of a new plant for electric vehicle batteries in Indonesia on...

The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated what was already a big trend in Indonesia, namely online grocery shopping. Experts expect the country’s grocery e-commerce market...

A consortium of Indonesian companies together with university researchers has started to develop a variation of aviation fuel containing a small share of biofuel...

Vietnam, arguably one of the most dynamic economies in today’s Southeast Asia, has set a focus on research on and development in artificial intelligence,...

The Covid-19 pandemic has led to a substantial rise in digital health services offerings in Southeast Asia, with a boom in managed care portals...