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MWC26 Shanghai, Asia’s largest and most influential connectivity event, officially opened on Wednesday at the Shanghai New International Expo Center (SNIEC), as the global mobile ecosystem convenes in China for a landmark 13th edition of keynotes, summits and live showcases.

Indonesia's digital competitiveness score rose to 42.2 in 2026, up from 38.8 in 2025, according to East Ventures's Digital Competitiveness Index 2026, marking a more than 50 percent increase in the average provincial score since 2020.

Backed by Japan-based SoftBank Group, Carro is also considering a second listing in Singapore, the report added.

Across Global Business Services, the centralized finance, HR, and IT operations that serve much of the corporate world, and a major professional employer in Malaysia, job descriptions have quietly fallen out of step with what the work now demands.

MBSB Research said Wednesday that it sees positive impacts of data center development to Malaysia economic growth and various sectors.

Southeast Asia's governments have made bold commitments on AI sovereignty and digital competitiveness. Those commitments are only as credible as the power infrastructure behind them.

Vietnam's Thai Nguyen province has urged China's electronic manufacturer Luxshare-ICT to expand its investment in the province and join the electronics supply chain, including those linked to South Korea's Samsung and other tech giants corporations

Malaysia is seeking to position itself as a regional leader in the emerging low altitude economy (LAE), with the government working on a regulatory framework to support new aviation technologies such as drones, air taxis and electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, its Transport Minister Loke Siew Fook said Tuesday.

Malaysia's property firm Malton has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with NVIDIA cloud partner Ricloud to establish artificial intelligence (AI) compute centers in Malaysia.

HSBC and Google Cloud will jointly build and deploy AI capabilities across HSBC's global operations, targeting more than 200 new AI use cases over the next two years, each of which HSBC estimates could return more than $100 million in direct revenue gains or efficiency improvements.