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International Workplace Group signed a record 728 new locations globally in the first half of 2026, including 164 across Asia Pacific.

The United States-based Apple will open its Apple Education Hub, its first Vietnam education center, to train employees of its supplier companies, with courses starting this autumn through a partnership with Hanoi University of Science and Technology.

South Korea has selected SK Telecom, Kakao and KT to develop free national AI services backed by domestic models and government-provided computing capacity.

JFrog has launched Traffic Controller, a network-layer enforcement system that routes software package requests from developers and AI agents through governed repositories and security checks.

Emirates will deploy its Airbus A350 on daily Dubai-Kuala Lumpur flights from September 1, expanding Premium Economy capacity on the Malaysia route.

The Philippine government and U.S.-based Meta Platforms, known for its social media platform Facebook, agreed to deepen cooperation on protecting children online and countering disinformation, harmful content, and threats of violence.

Hong Kong-based digital bank, Ant Bank, and its embedded-finance provider, Bettr, both under Singapore's Ant International, were selected for the liquidity-risk management track of Hong Kong regulators' GenA.I. Sandbox++.

Kioxia and Sandisk plan to invest more than $31 billion in Japan through 2032 to expand flash-memory technology and production capacity.

Hong Kong regulators selected 36 agentic AI use cases from nearly 100 proposals for controlled trials across banking and other financial sectors.

Singapore's fileAI, the developer of file automation software fileForge, has secured investments from the corporate venture arms of Japan's SMBC and Singapore's Singtel Group, though the parties did not disclose other details.