Innovation

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...

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...

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...

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...

Thailand is planning to build a $37-billion smart city in an industrial hub in the so-called Eastern Economic Corridor in Chonburi province southeast of...

The market value of the e-commerce sector in Cambodia increased to more than $970 million last year, up roughly 19 per cent from $813...

The global economic slowdown in recent months has not left Southeast Asia’s startups unaffected, with hundreds of workers fired from some of the largest...

Singapore-based biotechnology startup Mirxes, which focuses on preventive healthcare solutions for cancer and infectious diseases, is weighing an initial public offering (IPO) in the...

Vietnam’s economic planners have presented ideas to create smart cities in 41 out of the 63 provinces and cities in the country in order...

US alternative food company Eat Just, a maker of “cultivated meat” and egg substitutes, decided to set up the largest plant to produce lab-grown...

A new digital bank has started operations in Singapore after receiving approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to commence business on June...

All Vietnam households and businesses will get digital addresses by 2025, the country’s national post service Vietnam Post announced in accordance with the government's...

Green Link Digital Bank, or GLDB, the first digital bank to operate in Singapore, opened its virtual doors for business on June 3, the...

Malaysia’s Capital A, the holding company formerly known as AirAsia Group, plans to expand its ride hailing platform on its e-commerce platform “Super App”...

Malaysia has attracted 16.52 billion ringgit ($3.8 billion) worth of new investments commitments through its trade mission in the US this year so far,...