Japan

Proofpoint said it participated in a public-private effort led with Microsoft and Health-ISAC to disrupt phishing infrastructure associated with several Chinese-language phishing kits, with Japan among the principal

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has lauded Mitsubishi Corp.'s investment of $700 million in energy firm Ayala Corp as among the largest foreign equity investments in the Philippines in recent years.

Japan's Sumitomo Bakelite will expand production capacity for advanced semiconductor encapsulation materials for chip production at its plants in Suzhou, China, and Singapore, installing new production lines at both sites.

Digital Realty has started construction of KIX15, a 24 MW data center in Osaka designed for high-density cloud and AI infrastructure.

A joint venture between Japan's TOPPAN and U.S. chipmaker Broadcom opened Singapore's first plant for high-end FC-BGA chip substrates on Tuesday, a component in short supply as demand for AI processors surges.

Vietnam's private bank VPBank has signed a $27 million loan with Japanese banks to help build a high-voltage power-transmission line in southern Vietnam, part of efforts to move more renewable electricity onto the national grid.

KJ Holdings, the holding company of Japanese education group Kawaijuku, has invested in Do Ventures Fund II, a fund run by a Vietnamese venture-capital firm, as it looks to build education businesses in Vietnam.

Adtech company Equativ has become a technology partner for ChatGPT Ads, offering campaign activation in current markets including Japan as OpenAI expands ways for advertisers to buy ads.

Japan's Ricoh has invested in Intellect, a Singapore-based workplace mental-health platform, through its corporate venture-capital fund, in the fund's first deal.

Japan's Mitsui & Co. will collaborate with Singapore's Oncoshot to use the firm's AI platform for analyzing cancer-clinical data, aiming to expand oncology research across the hospital network of Malaysia's IHH Healthcare.