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Indonesia blocks Yahoo, PayPal and others for non-compliance with licensing rules
Indonesia has blocked web portal Yahoo, payments firm PayPal and a number of gaming websites as they neglected to comply with licensing rules, Reuters...
Cambodia to implement full Internet surveillance through single national data gateway (updated)
Cambodia’s new Chinese-style National Internet Gateway is planned to come online on February 16 and will funnel all web traffic to, from and within...
Amazon to invest $5 billion in cloud infrastructure in Indonesia
US e-commerce giant Amazon has finally launched its cloud computing cluster in Indonesia as announced early last year and said it would invest roughly...
Southeast Asia’s Internet economy rides high
Southeast Asia’s booming Internet economy is set to double to $363 billion by 2025, eclipsing the previous forecast of $300 billion, new research from...
Papua gets satellite telecom network
Indonesia’s remote easternmost province of Papua will be equipped with a new satellite telecom and Internet network...
Thais spent nearly 59 billion hours glued to their smartphones in 2020
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Thais have spent 58.8 billion hours using smartphones in 2020, which means that any of...
Cambodia plans China-style Internet firewall
In what comes as bad news for Cambodians and the substantial number of foreign digital nomads in...
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...
Filipinos spend more than ten hours online per day – world record
The Philippines are topping the global country ranking of Internet usage per day with an average ten hours and 2 minutes of screen time....
Internet companies hit by Vietnam’s new cybersecurity law
A law requiring Internet companies in Vietnam to remove content the country’s authorities deem to be against the state came into effect January 1,...
Dr. M talks tech with Alibaba’s Ma
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, also known as Dr. M, met with the founder of China’s largest e-commerce enterprise Alibaba Group, Jack Ma, at...
Laos pushes e-commerce initiative, seeks to reduce Internet costs
The Lao Ministry of Post and Telecommunications has named the development of e-commerce as one of its core strategic goals over the next ten...
Vietnam deploys cyber warfare troop of 10,000
Vietnam has unveiled a new, 10,000-strong military cyber warfare unit to counter “wrong” views on the Internet, media reported, amid a widening crackdown on...
Internet economy in Southeast Asia to grow to $50 billion this year
The online economy is expected to grow substantially in Southeast Asia, a region which is already the world’s third largest in terms of the...
China Telecom readies to become Philippines’ third telecom player
China Telecom, one of the largest telecom operators in China, has been proposed by the government in Beijing to enter the Philippine market as...
Philippines invites Chinese firms to become country’s third telecom player
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has asked China to invest in the Philippines’ telecommunication industry and to set up a subsidiary that would become the...
China to assist Cambodia in setting up e-commerce ecosystem
Cambodia and China signed a memorandum of understanding on November 10 to support the development of the country’s e-commerce business operations, according to a...
Singapore, Tokyo ranked Asia’s smartest cities
Two Asian cities made it in the top-ten smartest cities in the world, according to the 2017 Smart Cities Index compiled by EasyPark Group,...
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Thailand, Singapore most vulnerable to potential US recession
Southeast Asia could be seriously affected in case the US falls into recession, but some countries would be more badly hit than others, economists...