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Vietnam and Japan have signed a memorandum of understanding on artificial intelligence (AI) research and development and a bilateral agreement to speed up patent examination, during the official visit to Japan by General Secretary-State President To Lam.

Japan's SoftBank Group, Singapore-based Grab Holdings, and Malaysia's Petroleum Sarawak Berhad (PETROS) will jointly build AI infrastructure in Malaysia, backed by $1.85 billion in initial combined seed capital.

Hai H Nguyen explains how counting an employee option pool before a financing round can shift dilution toward founders, with a worked cap-table example.

SiS Distribution (Thailand) will invest $800,000 in SIS Technologies Vietnam, taking an 80 percent stake and making the Vietnamese company a subsidiary of the Thai company.

NVIDIA's board of directors has started an independent investigation after recent reporting that founder and CEO Jensen Huang was the target of a foreign intelligence effort.

The Philippines' Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), Department of Science and Technology (DOST), Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), and Quezon City government through StartupQC, opened Philippine Startup Week 2026 on Monday (November 9).

CTP, a Netherlands-based developer, owner, and operator of logistics and industrial real estate, has agreed terms to acquire 100 percent of the South-East Asia Logistics Partners (SLP) portfolio and operating platform in Vietnam for $500 million.

Japan’s Sojitz Corporation plans to buy 5 percent of Masan High-Tech Materials (UPCoM: MSR) from Masan Horizon, a subsidiary of Vietnamese conglomerate Masan Group.

Mitsui Chemicals and DBJ agreed to acquire semiconductor-materials supplier JSR for 1.84 trillion yen, subject to regulatory approvals.

Equinix has opened its $290 million SG6 data center in Singapore, adding 1,550 initial cabinets and capacity for high-density AI workloads.