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Vietnam's Ministry of Industry and Trade suggested that wolfram (tungsten) is off the list of minerals permitted for export in the current period, without details of the length of the "current period."

Artificial intelligence (AI) and data-center expansion can double Asia-Pacific data-center capacity by 2030, from 32 GW to 57 GW, and can pressure power grids worldwide, in a "generational shift" in electricity demand.

Australian AI infrastructure company Firmus and OpenAI will cooperate to expand AI data center capacity into Malaysia, a new market for the Australian infrastructure company, under a multi-year partnership to develop two sites there.

In an interview, Gprnt CEO Lionel Wong told TNGlobal about graduating from a central bank, scaling without ready-made data infrastructure, and where ESG reporting goes next, among others.

Tencent Cloud, the cloud unit of Chinese technology giant Tencent, will provide cloud infrastructure to Bookme, a Pakistan-born travel and e-ticketing platform, to support its expansion across the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Singapore-based OneByZero, an AI-focused systems integrator, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) will cooperate to expand the deployment of governed AI "coworkers" for enterprises across Asia-Pacific and Japan.

VinFast's main Vietnamese manufacturing company, VinFast Trading and Production JSC (VFTP), has become 100 percent domestically owned after its Nasdaq-listed, Singapore-based parent VinFast Auto Ltd divested its stake.

Australia's IFM Investors, a pension-owned asset manager with A$291.6 billion ($204.8 billion) under management, has opened an office in Singapore to expand its private-credit and private-markets business in Asia.

The Singapore Prison Service has developed an autonomous robotic unit, named PROTECT, to strengthen surveillance and help officers respond to incidents, as part of a broader push to bring new technology into its institutions.

Google DeepMind, the AI arm of Google, has selected 16 startups, nonprofits and research teams across the Asia-Pacific for the first cohort of an accelerator supporting environmental projects that use AI.