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Google, Telstra to jointly strengthen Australia’s digital, subsea connectivity

Google and Telstra have announced a partnership to enhance the reach, reliability, and security of Australia's digital infrastructure through the integration of terrestrial fiber and subsea networks, as both companies move to support the growing demands of AI applications and workloads.

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Smarter collections: Why empathy and AI must work together in Asia’s next chapter of debt recovery

For decades, debt collection was treated as a numbers game. More dials, more letters, more pressure. That model is breaking down, and not because banks have suddenly become sentimental about it. It is breaking down because the economics no longer work.

Google, AirTrunk, European Energy Australia to operate 25MW Mulwala Solar Farm in New South Wales

Google, AirTrunk, and European Energy Australia will soon connect the 25-megawatt Mulwala Solar Farm in the Riverina district of New South Wales, Australia to the National Electricity Market of the country.

Korea’s LG already invests $10.6B in Vietnam, to build semiconductor substrate factory in Hai Phong

LG Innotek, the material arm of South Korean chaebol LG, will to expand its semiconductor substrate production into Vietnam by building a factory in the northern coastal city of Hai Phong.

I.W.G’s Xiaoyan (Fiona) Zhou on how AI can help connect fragmented healthcare systems across Asia [Q&A]

As hospitals, clinics, insurers, and healthcare partners across Asia digitize their operations, the harder challenge is making medical data usable across fragmented systems and borders. In this Q&A, Xiaoyan (Fiona) Zhou of I.W.G shares her perspective on healthcare interoperability, AI-enabled referral coordination, cross-border medical data exchange, and…

Vietnam Gov’t seeks Bybit’s support in developing cryptocurrency market

The Vietnamese government has called on Bybit, one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, to share its  experience in developing a regulated digital asset market, said Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Van Thang.

TikTok invests $5B in Vietnam, plans to establish local entity to boost data management

TikTok has invested nearly $5 billion in Vietnam over seven years of operation and plans to establish a domestic legal entity in the country.

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What “pig butchering” reveals about the new age of investment scams

While individual scam websites come and go, their DNS patterns endure. Domains are reused. Hosting providers overlap. Naming conventions recur. Configuration choices repeat across hundreds of sites. When examined collectively, these traces reveal the contours of an entire criminal supply chain.

Vietnam’s Hanoi police utilize homemade drones for urban surveillance

The police force in Vietnam's Hanoi capital city has launched a trial of AI-integrated unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for traffic and surveillance operations, using drones developed entirely by Vietnamese companies.

Kyrgyzstan’s national payment operator, Alipay+ to jointly launch cross-border QR payments

Kyrgyzstan's Interbank Processing Center has partnered with Alipay+, the wallet gateway under Singapore-headquartered Ant International, to launch international QR payment services for users of the ELCARD Mobile app, with the support of the National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic.