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Southeast Asia (SEA) saw a strong start in private equity (PE) investment in the first quarter of 2026, with deal value surged 2.5 times year-on-year to $9.2 billion in the first quarter, EV said Tuesday.

The Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) will expand the TechSkills Accelerator (TeSA) to upskill 40,000 tech professionals in Singapore under the National AI Impact Program (NAIIP), including final-year Information and Digital Technologies (IDT) students, over the next three years.

Equinix, Inc., the global digital infrastructure company, has on Tuesday announced plans to expand its presence in Malaysia with a new data center, KL2, in Kuala Lumpur with over $190 million investment.

Industrial bases, not just science, will determine whether breakthroughs become real benefits.

Aspire, a Singapore-based financial platform for businesses, has launched a revamped version of its Aspire for Startups program, offering early-stage companies access to more than $500,000 in partner rewards, financial incentives and operational support.

The direction across APAC is clear, even though regions move at different paces. Some jurisdictions are moving from voluntary principles to binding rules, especially in high-impact AI applications and critical industries.

The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) and Huawei Technologies (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. marked the graduation of 126 participants from the second and third cohorts of the Digital Leadership Excellence (DLE) Program.

With the inclusion principle integrated into main innovation projects, Ant International now links 2 billion user accounts with 150 million merchants through multi-layered partnerships, provides global account services to 1.6 million SMEs, and helps over 30 million underserved businesses and individuals access quality credit.

Asia-Pacific data center capacity is projected to grow from approximately 32 GW in 2025 to 57 GW by 2030, with artificial intelligence (AI) workloads expected to drive the majority of incremental demand, a whitepaper showed Monday.

Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) and Bank Indonesia (BI) have signed a new memorandum of understanding (MoU) that strengthens bilateral cooperation between the two central banks.