TNGlobal Staff

Malaysia will step up efforts to attract high-value investments in sectors including semiconductors, artificial intelligence, digital services and energy transition, while strengthening incentives to ensure approved projects translate into jobs, technology transfers and local supply chains, the Ministry of Finance said on Tuesday.

US technology firm IBM and the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) are planning to establish the Quantum-Safe Center, targeted for launch by the end of 2026, as a dedicated hub to accelerate Singapore’s transition to quantum-safe cybersecurity.

Singapore is tightening safeguards on major messaging, social media and e-commerce platforms, requiring them to take stronger measures to detect, disrupt and prevent scams targeting users in the city-state.

Singapore Polytechnic (SP) has on Wednesday launched the Cybersecurity Assessment and Security Operations Centre Training Lab for Enterprises (CASTLE), a new initiative by SP's School of Computing to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) strengthen their cybersecurity while giving students hands-on industry experience.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced Wednesday a set of measures to strengthen Singapore's competitiveness as a leading asset management hub.

Thunes, the Singapore-based payment firm, and Fiserv, a US payments and financial services technology provider, announced Monday a strategic collaboration for real-time global payouts.

Sarawak Metro Sdn Bhd, the state-owned enterprise which had been appointed to develop, operate and maintain the Kuching Urban Transportation System (KUTS) project, announced Monday a collaboration with Revenue Group Berhad, one of Malaysian payment solutions providers, to power its mobile application with advanced payment tokenization technology.

Malayan Banking Berhad (Maybank) and Haier Energy Sdn Bhd (Haier Energy), a subsidiary of Haier Group headquartered in China, have entered into a Heads of Agreement (HoA) to form a strategic partnership to accelerate the growth of Haier’s new energy platform and ecosystem.

The National Energy Efficiency Policy and Action Plan 2026-2035 (NEEAP 2.0) marks a structural shift in Malaysia’s energy-efficiency landscape, providing a clearer implementation roadmap for mandatory energy management, reporting and periodic audits for qualifying energy consumers, progressively shifting adoption from voluntary towards regulation driven,…

China’s domestic artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem is gaining momentum as major models demonstrate the ability to train and run on locally developed chips, while Nvidia supply constraints and Beijing’s restrictions on foreign processors accelerate the shift towards domestic hardware, Maybank Investment Bank said on Monday.