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Vietnamese electric vehicle (EV) maker VinFast announced last Thursday the signing of a dealership agreement with ASTRADA SIMVA, its first official dealer partner in France, and Schachtschneider Automobile GmbH & Co KG, its second dealer in Germany.

Singapore-based tech conglomerate Sea Limited announced last Thursday the opening of its new global headquarters for its digital financial services business in Singapore, alongside its rebranding from SeaMoney to Monee.

Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP)–BlackRock is exploring a strategic partnership with “CP–True IDC” to strengthen Thailand’s digital infrastructure and build a regional giga data center hub with up to $5 billion investment.

Malaysian clean energy solutions provider Gentari, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Gentari Renewables Sdn Bhd, has signed landmark Solar Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) with telecommunications company Telekom Malaysia (TM) to power six key TM facilities with solar energy.

Gaining full visibility into data is the critical first step toward building a winning data management strategy. Businesses that implement the trifecta — lifecycle management, pipeline management, and data federation — are better positioned to turn chaos into clarity and data into a true driver of growth.

Indonesia-based conglomerate Astra and Japan-based automotive firm Toyota are strengthening their strategic partnership and expanding collaboration in the used car business in Indonesia through a partnership in PT Astra Digital Mobil (ADMO).

Vingroup's electric vehicle (EV) charging station developer V-GREEN has announced the signing of memorandum of understanding (MOU) with four strategic partners to deploy approximately 63,000 charging ports in total exclusively for VinFast electric vehicles in Indonesia by the end of 2025, more than double the previously announced target.

By working closely with partners to co-develop industry-specific solutions and explore high-value application scenarios, Huawei Cloud aims to drive new growth through precise alignment with customer needs.

By 2030, IDTechEx forecasts that the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, commercialization of AI, and the increasing performance requirements from large AI models will perpetuate the already soaring market size of AI chips to over $400 billion.

MIDF Research said Friday that the scrapping of the rules under the Framework of AI Diffusion is a positive development as far as the data center value chain is concerned.