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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.

Liquid Network paused transaction activity after about 4,000 BTC left its federation wallet through a SideSwap-authorized peg-out route.

Indian space technology company Pixxel has raised $100 million in a Series C round led by Temasek and Seraphim Space Investment Trust.

Indonesia is likely to remain predominantly a consumer and adopter of foreign-built artificial intelligence (AI) over the next several years, rather than a producer of frontier AI capabilities, according to BMI Country Risk and Industry Research said on last Friday.

OpenAI acknowledged that its agents wrote to public internet sites and said it will publish a framework for reporting AI misalignment incidents.

The Philippine SEC cleared Mynt's proposed GCash IPO of up to PHP 92.32 billion, subject to remaining requirements and final offer terms.

DHL will invest S$29 million in two Singapore healthcare logistics hubs and has added dedicated pharmaceutical handling space at Changi Airport.