Singapore leads SEA’s $1.1B climate tech funding
Southeast Asia has drawn about $1.1 billion climate tech funding across 268 rounds as of June 2026, Singapore leading with $872 million of total funding, Tracxn said Friday.
Malaysia unveils $12.39M scheme to prepare 200 SMEs for stock market listing
The Ministry of Entrepreneur Development and Cooperatives (KUSKOP), through SME Corp. Malaysia, has on Thursday launched the PKS@BURSA Program, a strategic initiative aimed at…
DataMasque secures $4M in funding led by Wavemaker Ventures
DataMasque, the data de-identification and synthetic data platform, announced Friday it has raised $4 million in funding led by Wavemaker Ventures, the early-stage fund of…
Google, Telstra to jointly strengthen Australia’s digital, subsea connectivity
Google and Telstra have announced a partnership to enhance the reach, reliability, and security of Australia's digital infrastructure through the integration of terrestrial fiber…
Smarter collections: Why empathy and AI must work together in Asia’s next chapter of debt recovery
For decades, debt collection was treated as a numbers game. More dials, more letters, more pressure. That model is breaking down, and not because banks have suddenly become…
Google, AirTrunk, European Energy Australia to operate 25MW Mulwala Solar Farm in New South Wales
Google, AirTrunk, and European Energy Australia will soon connect the 25-megawatt Mulwala Solar Farm in the Riverina district of New South Wales, Australia to the National…
Korea’s LG already invests $10.6B in Vietnam, to build semiconductor substrate factory in Hai Phong
LG Innotek, the material arm of South Korean chaebol LG, will to expand its semiconductor substrate production into Vietnam by building a factory in the northern coastal city of…
I.W.G’s Xiaoyan (Fiona) Zhou on how AI can help connect fragmented healthcare systems across Asia [Q&A]
As hospitals, clinics, insurers, and healthcare partners across Asia digitize their operations, the harder challenge is making medical data usable across fragmented systems and…
Vietnam Gov’t seeks Bybit’s support in developing cryptocurrency market
The Vietnamese government has called on Bybit, one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, to share its experience in developing a regulated digital asset market, said…
TikTok invests $5B in Vietnam, plans to establish local entity to boost data management
TikTok has invested nearly $5 billion in Vietnam over seven years of operation and plans to establish a domestic legal entity in the country.
