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Aspire, a Singapore-based financial platform for businesses, has launched a revamped version of its Aspire for Startups program, offering early-stage companies access to more than $500,000 in partner rewards, financial incentives and operational support.

The direction across APAC is clear, even though regions move at different paces. Some jurisdictions are moving from voluntary principles to binding rules, especially in high-impact AI applications and critical industries.

The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) and Huawei Technologies (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. marked the graduation of 126 participants from the second and third cohorts of the Digital Leadership Excellence (DLE) Program.

With the inclusion principle integrated into main innovation projects, Ant International now links 2 billion user accounts with 150 million merchants through multi-layered partnerships, provides global account services to 1.6 million SMEs, and helps over 30 million underserved businesses and individuals access quality credit.

Asia-Pacific data center capacity is projected to grow from approximately 32 GW in 2025 to 57 GW by 2030, with artificial intelligence (AI) workloads expected to drive the majority of incremental demand, a whitepaper showed Monday.

Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) and Bank Indonesia (BI) have signed a new memorandum of understanding (MoU) that strengthens bilateral cooperation between the two central banks.

Global investment firms Brookfield and GIC have on last Friday announced the financial close of their acquisition of National Storage REIT (NSR), Australia and New Zealand’s largest owner and operator of self-storage facilities.

Connectivity remains the essential foundation. But what operators choose to build on top of it will ultimately determine how relevant they remain in their customers’ daily digital lives.

Malaysia is targeting a 7 percent share of the global advanced semiconductor packaging market by 2035, as the government accelerates efforts to move the industry up the value chain under its National Semiconductor Strategy (NSS).

Accton Technology Corporation, s provider of networking and communications solutions for top-tier networking, computer, and telecommunications vendors, will invest $80 million more in its wholly owned subsidiary, Vietnam Accton Technology Company Limited.