Thailand

The U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) will fund a study of American small nuclear-reactor technology for Thailand's first nuclear power plant, part of Washington's push to promote its civil-nuclear industry abroad.

The U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) will fund a feasibility study for a "trusted" trans-Pacific submarine cable linking Thailand to the United States, a route designed to avoid the South China Sea.

A SAS and IDC study finds stronger trustworthy-AI scores across Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, even as reported ROI and regular audit rates decline.

Thailand's Gulf Development and Singapore's Singtel will invest in a Vietnam-Thailand-Singapore submarine cable to meet rising demand for cloud, AI and data-center services across Southeast Asia.

Techsauce Global Summit 2026, an international technology and business conference organized by Thailand's Techsauce Media, opened in Bangkok on Wednesday under the theme "The Race to the Next."

TenPay Global, Tencent's cross-border payment platform, and ShopeePay, the digital payment arm of Singapore's Sea Ltd and associated with the e-commerce platform Shopee, have jointly launched a cross-border payment service connecting Southeast Asian users with merchants in China.

New U.S. Section 301 tariffs took effect on Friday (July 24) across 60 economies, hitting seven Southeast Asian nations: Malaysia, Cambodia, and Indonesia with a 10 percent additional duty, while Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, and Singapore face the higher rate of 12.5 percent.

Huawei has joined Thai government agencies, telecom carriers, large language model developers, AI associations, and universities to launch the Thailand AI Ecosystem Initiative, in order to push Thailand as a hub for AI innovation in Southeast Asia.

Huawei Cloud has announced its Agentic Infrastructure for Thailand and launched an open beta of its CodeArts Agent coding platform at the Huawei Cloud Summit Thailand 2026, the Chinese giant said in a statement on Friday.

Thailand received $43.6 billion in foreign and domestic investment applications across 1,299 projects in the first half of 2026, a 37 percent increase year-on-year, with digital infrastructure and AI data centers accounting for the bulk of inflows.