Asia

Shenzhen–Hong Kong–Guangzhou has retained the top spot in WIPO’s 2026 ranking of the world’s largest innovation clusters.

Hong Kong-based Reap has launched a Virtual Asset Ledger that lets card-issuing clients make bitcoin and other virtual-asset balances spendable at the point of sale.

ASML and TSMC are leading an industry move to 12-inch photomasks for High NA EUV, with a pilot line targeted for 2031 and production-system readiness in 2033.

Google Threat Intelligence Group says attackers are beginning to use multi-agent AI systems to compress cyber operations, including a credential-harvesting campaign completed in under six hours.

Adyen, the global financial technology platform, has announced its partnership with Limitless Technology Group, a gifting e-commerce firm headquartered in Melbourne, to streamline the firm’s payment infrastructure across its portfolio of brands and markets.

The hyperscale data center boom sweeping Asia is generating materially divergent outcomes for liquefied natural gas (LNG) demand across the region, with Southeast Asia emerging as a compelling new demand driver while South Asia remains structurally out of reach for gas, according to new research from Wood Mackenzie revealed on Monday.

Fifteen-year-olds reporting they never or almost never used artificial intelligence (AI) for schoolwork outscored their AI-using peers in science on nearly every type of task, except for utilizing AI as a general study aid, according to the PISA result conducted by the OECD.

Laters.com announced a $1.5 million seed round led by XBO Ventures, the investment arm of XBO.com, the global digital-asset platform, and the completion of its rebrand.

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.

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.