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Singapore’s Ant International brings payment gateway Alipay+ to Argentina’s national QR payment network
Singapore-based Ant International has integrated its Alipay+ payment gateway with Argentina's national QR payment scheme Transferencias 3.0, enabling international visitors to make digital payments at merchants across the country using their home-market payment apps.
Vietnam’s VinFast, Germany’s TÜV Rheinland to jointly develop vehicle testing center
Vietnam's electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer VinFast and Germany's TÜV Rheinland will collaborate to develop the VinFast Testing Center to international standards and provide testing and technical advisory services to automotive manufacturers in Vietnam and the ASEAN region.
What Southeast Asia’s digital economy needs beyond growth
As more livelihoods depend on digital systems, the quality of those systems will matter as much as their reach. Southeast Asia already knows how to build digital growth. It now needs to ensure that growth is inclusive, accountable, and resilient enough to earn lasting confidence.
ChatGPT for beginners, Claude for experts, AI competition continues: GenAI Fund
A new study of Vietnam-based GenAI Fund shows that OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude are running nearly equal in overall platform adoption, but diverge sharply when builders are segmented by experience.
Southeast Asia IPO raised surges 85 percent on year to $2.5B in first half – EY
Southeast Asia saw a total of 35 initial public offerings (IPOs) that raised $2.5 billion, down 30 percent in volume and 85 percent increase in proceeds compared with 50 IPOs raising $1.4 billion in the first half of 2025, EY said Friday.
Singaporeans use Gemini for professional tasks, Vietnamese for math-coding, Malaysian for creative: Google
Singapore leads Southeast Asia in per capita adoption of Google's Gemini AI platform and ranks first globally by the same measure, while Vietnam dominates the region in mathematical reasoning, coding, and AI-assisted education.
ASEAN emerges as key market, manufacturing hub for EVs – BMI
As electric vehicle (EV) adoption accelerates across South East Asia, ASEAN is evolving from an emerging demand center into an increasingly important manufacturing and supply-chain hub, BMI Country Risk and Industry Research said Thursday.
US investor Srinivasan seeks meeting with Anwar’s office after startup school in Forest City raided
Earlier this week, Malaysia launched an immigration probe into people associated with Srinivasan's startup school, saying that individuals may have flouted immigration rules.
Singapore’s cryptography solution firm pQCee raises $3.9M seed round to scale quantum-safe encryption globally
Singapore-based pQCee, a post-quantum cryptography solutions firm, has raised $3.9 million in a seed funding round co-led by SGInnovate and Lotus One Investment, with participation from In Group Holdings, Wavemaker Ventures, SUTD Venture Holdings, and Apsara Investments.
Singaporean-founded Paymonade secures license to provide crypto-asset services in Europe
Singaporean-Founded Paymonade has been granted a MiCA license by Liechtenstein's Financial Market Authority (FMA) to provide regulated crypto-asset services across all 30 states of the European Economic Area under a single passportable license.
