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Malaysia will impose stricter requirements on fully imported electric vehicles (EVs) from July 2026, after a four-year exemption period under the AP Francais scheme expired at the end of 2025, the Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry (MITI) said on Wednesday.

The United States' semiconductor firm Amkor Technology plans to increase the annual output of its Vietnam factory from 675 million to 1.2 billion items, according to its draft environmental impact assessment report.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is mobilizing $50 billion by 2035 through new financing tools, policy support, and partnerships to help countries build cross-border power grids across some of the world’s most complex regions, aiming to lower energy costs, strengthen reliability, and expand clean energy trade, ADB President Masato Kanda said on Tuesday.

Teleport, the logistics arm of Malaysia-based Capital A, has recorded a significant increase in operations for the first quarter of 2026.

The artificial intelligence (AI) adoption in Singapore remains limited and at an early stage, its Ministry of Manpower said in a recent report.

AIXTRON SE, the German provider of deposition equipment for the semiconductor industry, has concluded an agreement on greenfield manufacturing facility in Penang, Malaysia, with the Malaysian Investment Development Authority (MIDA).

Brano Therapeutics, a spin-off from Singapore's Duke-NUS Medical School, has secured $6.8 million in seed funding to support the development of new treatments for heart failure, including heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), a condition with limited therapeutic options.

Hong Kong-based Animoca Brands will invest up to $10 million in selected early-stage projects building on its AI agent platform, known as “Minds.”

Global spending on digital identity verification will increase by 55 percent between 2026 and 2030, rising from just under $19 billion in 2026, according to a new study by the United Kingdom-based Juniper Research.

Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX) has announced the formalization of collaboration agreements with ten likeminded partners, from government, industry and academia, range from artificial intelligence (AI) and space tech, to industry innovations and an expanding research ecosystem.