Vietnam emerges as SEA’s next data center contender amid regional capacity shift – BMI

Vietnam is emerging as a credible secondary data center hub in Southeast Asia over the next five years, benefiting from rapid cloud adoption and a spillover of investment from…

Singapore launches new Transparency Guidelines to help consumers use GenAI Chatbots safely and responsibly

The Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) has on Monday published new voluntary guidelines to help consumers navigate the use of Generative AI (GenAI) Chatbots.

IMDA launches Singapore’s first Digital Twin Playbook for Enterprises

The Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) said Monday it has developed Singapore’s first Digital Twin for Enterprises Playbook to help business leaders and digital…

Malaysia poised to become regional data center hub – S&P

Malaysia can overcome execution challenges to become one of Southeast Asia's largest data center hubs, nearly tripling capacity by 2030, S&P Global Ratings said Monday.

Skills built faster than work redesigned to use them: Singapore Polytechnic

Singapore organizations are building skills faster than they are redesigning work to deploy them, creating a "capability debt" or the cost of work evolving faster than the systems…

Singapore’s Ant International brings payment gateway Alipay+ to Argentina’s national QR payment network

Singapore-based Ant International has integrated its Alipay+ payment gateway with Argentina's national QR payment scheme Transferencias 3.0, enabling international visitors to…

Vietnam’s VinFast, Germany’s TÜV Rheinland to jointly develop vehicle testing center

Vietnam's electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer VinFast and Germany's TÜV Rheinland will collaborate to develop the VinFast Testing Center to international standards and provide…

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What Southeast Asia’s digital economy needs beyond growth

As more livelihoods depend on digital systems, the quality of those systems will matter as much as their reach. Southeast Asia already knows how to build digital growth. It now…

ChatGPT for beginners, Claude for experts, AI competition continues: GenAI Fund

A new study of Vietnam-based GenAI Fund shows that OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude are running nearly equal in overall platform adoption, but diverge sharply when builders…

Southeast Asia IPO raised surges 85 percent on year to $2.5B in first half – EY

Southeast Asia saw a total of 35 initial public offerings (IPOs) that raised $2.5 billion, down 30 percent in volume and 85 percent increase in proceeds compared with 50 IPOs…