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Singapore aims to become regional hub for digital banks
Singapore is undertaking steps to become a regional hub for technology firms with advanced data expertise, particulally...
Thailand’s digital economy to grow to $50 billion by 2025
In Thailand, the digital economy is expected to grow to a volume $50 billion by 2025 from...
Indonesia’s Gojek to enter ride-hailing market in Malaysia, Philippines next year
Indonesia’s ride-hailing giant Gojek will expand into
Malaysia and the Philippines by 2020 as the company is looking...
Online spending in Southeast Asia to quadruple to $120 billion by 2025
E-commerce spending in Southeast Asia will increase nearly fourfold to $120.9 billion by 2025 from $31.3 billion...
Singapore’s first automated underground bicycle parking system flops
Singapore’s first automated subterranean parking system for
bicycles, launched with much fanfare in January last year, will close...
Ride-hailing pioneer becomes new education minister in Indonesia
Indonesian President Joko Widodo’s new cabinet on October 23
appointed 35-year-old Nadiem Makarim, the co-founder and CEO of...
New mapping technology discovers 500 more Philippine islands
The Philippines has over 500 new islands, bringing the total number of islands in the archipelago to...
Thailand will be host to cannabis festival next year
Thailand will host what it calls the “World Ganja Festival” next year, an event organised by the...
Brunei’s youth unemployment highest in Southeast Asia: IMF
Not much signs of wealth inside Brunei's floating villages © Arno Maierbrugger
At a whopping 31.7...
Vietnam, Cambodia, Brunei jump in competitiveness, Philippines loses out
Ho Chi Minh City skyline at night
The World Economic Forum (WEF)’s competitiveness ranking for 2019 is out...
Vietnam to build smart city for $4.2 billion near Hanoi
Vietnamese hotel and golf resort giant BRG Group and Japan’s Sumitomo Corp, a trading company, struck a...
Malaysia’s Petronas sets up $350-million startup fund
Malaysia’s state-backed oil and gas company Petronas has set up a $350-million venture capital fund in order...
World’s first heliport for flying taxis to be revealed in Singapore
UK-based company Skyports Ltd. is building the world’s first “vertiport” for electric aircraft in Singapore, an early...
Laos gets its own ride-hailing service
Cambodia-based tech startup Meal Temple Group in partnership with Vientiane-founded KiwiPay has launched a new ride-hailing service...
Singapore smartest city in Southeast Asia, others not so…
Traffic congestion in Metro Manila
Singapore made it to the top of the Smart City Index 2019, the...
Thailand to open industries banned for foreigners to spur innovation and technology transfer
Thailand’s commerce ministry is considering whether to remove certain innovation-related businesses from the list of those open...
Thailand only ASEAN country that drops in digital index
Thailand is the only country out of five ASEAN nations surveyed in this year’s World Digital Competitiveness...
Private equity investors set up association in Myanmar
A group of leading private equity firms in Myanmar launched the Myanmar Private Equity & Venture Capital...
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Malaysia’s grey economy at 21% of GDP
The size of Malaysia’s shadow economy stands at around 300 billion ringgit a year, more than...
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US companies eyeing relocation from China to Philippines amid trade war
Companies from the US are increasingly looking at the Philippines as possible alternative location for their existing...