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Southeast Asia-focused courier J&T Express records $12.2B revenue in 2025, up 19%

Indonesia-headquartered J&T Global Express, a global logistics service provider affiliated with China's smartphone brand Oppo, reported a revenue of $12.2 billion in 2025, up 18.5% year-on-year, the firm said in a release on Monday.

Singapore-based Bitcoin mining facilitator Bitdeer to jointly develop 180 MW AI data center in Norway

Bitdeer Technologies Group, a Singapore-headquartered technology firm focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) and Bitcoin mining infrastructure, will jointly develop an AI data center in Norway, with a capacity of 180 MW.

How a Russian bank is building its own language model GigaChat from scratch

Sber is Russia's largest bank and one of the country's leading technology companies, whose ecosystem of AI-powered digital, financial, and retail services reaches tens of millions of users. Anton Frolov heads the Generative AI Development division and oversees the research and development of GigaChat, Russia's own neural network. In this TNGlobal Q&A,…

Japan’s Furukawa Electric to invest $345M in data center cooling production in Philippines, Thailand, China

Furukawa Electric is set to invest at least JPY55 billion ($345 million) in expanding data center cooling production in the Philippines, Thailand, and China, the Japanese firm said in a release on Monday.

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Lotte Ventures Vietnam: State fund can boost private venture capital in Vietnam

Vietnam's establishment of state funds for venture capital, such as Hanoi with a VND600-billion ($22.8 million) venture capital fund and Ho Chi Minh City with a VND500-billion, can help boost private venture capital in Vietnam, according to experts.

Maybank completes on-chain tokenized FX and cross border payment via MYR-SGD corridor

Malaysia's largest lender Maybank has successfully completed the first transaction under its inaugural pilot project for tokenized deposits and cross-border payments with Yinson Holdings Berhad, a Malaysia-based energy infrastructure company.

IFC backs Southeast Asia’s first semiconductor-grade polysilicon plant in Malaysia with $125M

The World Bank Group’s private-sector arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), is partnering with OCI TerraSus Sdn. Bhd., a subsidiary of South Korea’s OCI Holdings, to build Southeast Asia’s first semiconductor-grade polysilicon plant in Malaysia, backed by $125 million in IFC funding.

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Operational advantage starts with unified workflows

Operational advantage will come less from having AI in the stack than from knowing how to organize around it. The businesses that get this right are likely to be the ones that treat unified fraud and AML workflows not as a technical aspiration, but as part of the operating foundation for resilient growth.

Vietnam slaps 0.1% personal income tax on digital asset transaction

Vietnam applies a 0.1% personal income tax on the value of each digital asset transaction, according to the Ministry of Finance’s Circular 32/2026.

UOB sees stablecoins, CBDCs, and tokenized deposits drive digital money evolution

The global push for tokenized money is entering a new, more mature phase. According to a recent UOB report, industry expectations are shifting from isolated pilots toward scalable operating models underpinned by five key drivers, captured in the acronym SCALE: Standards, Compliance, Access, Linked infrastructures, and Ecosystem.