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4000 Malaysian companies expand globally with government-backed digital trade platform
4000 Malaysian companies have expanded globally with government-backed MADANI Digital Trade (MDT) platform, Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (MATRADE) said Thursday.
Knight Frank: Malaysia’s Johor powers Asia Pacific’s data center boom as region hits record growth
Malaysia's Johor has firmly established itself as Southeast Asia’s fastest-growing data center hub, with aggregate supply nearly doubling over the past 12 months to 5.8 gigawatts (GW) as of the second quarter of 2025, Knight Frank said Thursday.
[SCEKL25] Digital Ministry to build ecosystem supporting Malaysia’s ‘AI Nation’ ambition
As Malaysia is expected to table Budget 2026 next month, Gobind also hoped that the Ministry will get additional funding that helps to expand on programs that create awareness, explain to people how technology can help, what are the risks involved and how to avoid those risks.
Don’t just bounce back, bounce forward: Turning data recovery into a secret weapon
The difference between disruption and disaster often comes down to how well an organization can recover. Leaders who treat recovery as a strategic asset, not just a technical function, will be better positioned to navigate whatever comes next. In today’s environment, resilience is no longer just good hygiene for a business. It is a competitive edge.
Japan’s NTT Data expects demand for sovereign cloud in APAC to grow rapidly [Q&A]
TNGlobal recently talked to Ben Tulloch, APAC lead for Cloud, Security, Network & Collaboration Services at NTT DATA, to know more about the strategic importance of this new Global Business Unit with Microsoft Cloud for NTT DATA, challenges enterprises in APAC face when trying to move Agentic AI solutions from a proof-of-concept phase to a production…
Microsoft appoints Chia Wee Luen as Managing Director for Singapore
American technology firm Microsoft has announced that Chia Wee Luen has joined the business as Managing Director for Singapore.
Indosat, ITA, and Tsinghua University partner to establish AI Application Cooperation Center
Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, the Indonesia Technology Alliance (ITA), and the Tsinghua University Wuxi Research Institute of Applied Technologies (Tsinghua University) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to establish AI Application Cooperation Center in Indonesia.
BEYOND Expo announces XIN Summit – a new China-focused tech summit launching in Shenzhen on November 15-16, 2025
A strategic platform spotlighting China’s next-generation innovators, anchored by AI hardware ecosystem and frontier technologies
“Growth by design, AI by choice” can be Singapore’s bold SG60 blueprint
As we celebrate SG60, let us leverage the transformative power of AI not just for economic gain, but to build a more inclusive, robust, and future-ready Singapore. We must be a nation that continues to choose growth, not by chance, but by conscious, collective design.
Nvidia to invest $100B in OpenAI
US-based chipmaker NVIDIA and US-based AI firm OpenAI announced a letter of intent for a landmark strategic partnership to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems for OpenAI’s next-generation AI infrastructure to train and run its next generation of models on the path to deploying superintelligence. To support this deployment including datacenter and…
