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Pine Labs has launched a unified payments platform in Singapore, combining payment acceptance, acquiring, installment payments, and customer engagement for merchants.

Google DeepMind and the Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech) have developed a scam-detection model that runs on smartphones and analyzes conversations without sending message content to external servers.

Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City management board for export-processing zones and industrial parks (HEPZA) has asked the municipality to review and unify power-price guidance for an AI data center at Tan Phu Trung Industrial Park.

Vietnam's Ministry of Public Security seeks to further cooperate with Nokia and Ericsson in technology and workforce training related to 5G, AI, and security.

VinMetal, the steel producer under Vietnamese conglomerate Vingroup, has signed a contract with Italy's Danieli & C. Officine Meccaniche S.p.A. to supply core equipment for a rail and section steel line.

Sacom Crypto Asset Exchange Joint Stock Company (SCEX) has become the second of five crypto-asset trading platform candidates in Vietnam to reach the requirement of charter capital at VND10,000 billion ($380 million).

KPay Merchant Service (Singapore), a subsidiary of fintech KPay Group, was granted a Major Payment Institution licence by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).

Cashku, a Malaysian digital wealth platform that describes itself as AI-native, has partnered with fund management Muamalat Invest to widen its range of Shariah-compliant investment products.

Drylab AI, an autonomous agent platform for life sciences research, has raised $3 million in a seed round led by Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India, with participation from PatSnap.

Many Western companies have significant regret about "entering a certain other very large country" through joint ventures and Vietnam should revise its foreign ownership limit.