One photograph in a recent Nikkei Asia report says more about Southeast Asia’s tech economy than most investor decks I have read this year. It shows Myanmar refugees working on a data centre construct...

If true, that would be the first time Xiaomi brings its rear-display phone model to Singapore....

MANILA, Philippines – Apple CEO, John Ternus announced a partnership with the Department of Education (DepEd) to deploy 170,000 MacBook Neo to teachers and staff. Ternus mentioned this to be the “bigg...

Singapore’s manufacturers are in their most buoyant mood in recent memory, and they largely have one customer category to thank: the AI data centre. A net weighted balance of 24 per cent of manufactur...

Bangkok, October 26, 2026 – SCB 10X, the disruptive technology investment arm of SCBX Group, announced its investment in Tasklet, an AI agent platform that enables businesses to automate complex workf...

North Korea’s TraderTraitor group drained about US$6.4 billion from Binance in the early hours of 30 October, Singapore time, according to a Chainalysis reconstruction that puts the loss slightly abov...

The free-to-play life simulation game arrives first on PC and mobile, where players can build a planet, meet its residents and explore the Starsea....

China’s “Lipstick King” has traded make-up swatches for artificial intelligence. Top live-streamer Li Jiaqi on Monday evening teamed up with an executive from Alibaba Group Holding to pitch AI subscri...

Eight months after Amity announced a Series D of more than US$100 million, the round is still open for business. The Thailand-founded AI group said on Monday that Finnoventure Private Equity Trust I, ...

Econili Battery New Energy likes to think big. The Ipoh-based recycler has described itself as the largest lithium-ion battery recycler in ASEAN. It talks about plants on two continents and a listing ...

The leading digital asset fell 1.69 per cent to US$76,940.91 over 24 hours, while the total crypto market capitalisation dropped 1.68 per cent. That near-perfect match matters. I don’t see this as a c...

Raising a debut fund in 2026 is hard. Raising one for biotech, a sector investors have spent four years avoiding, is harder still. NeoSci Ventures (NSV) says it has done it anyway. The Singapore-, Tai...

Food allergy in Indonesia is a real concern, and we cannot ignore it. According to CNN Indonesia, about 1.7 million children in Indonesia have allergies, and cow’s milk is one of the triggers. This nu...

In Vietnam’s climate-tech scene, a founder can win a grant and, with luck, eventually land a cheque worth several million dollars. What she is increasingly unlikely to find is anything in between. Rec...

On a weekday afternoon in late October, a group of Romanian founders pitched to a Singapore audience over Teams. One of them signed off with a plain request. He would be in Singapore the week of the S...

Over the past couple of months, I’ve come across several perspectives from AI founders that have made me question whether the fears surrounding AI are genuine concerns or narratives being shaped to se...

Readers looking to get a new tablet could be spoilt for choice next year....

Ask a Hong Kong engineer why their product deserves a place abroad and you will often hear the same answer: the city is the hardest test bed they know. Towers scramble satellite signals, space is scar...

For years, Southeast Asian founders were told to win their home market before expanding abroad. Prove the product, build the team, establish revenue, then move into neighbouring countries. That advice...

But surprisingly, they’re cheaper than their predecessors at launch....

MANILA, Philippines – The Final Frontier is making its way to the Commander table as Star Trek joins Magic: The Gathering (MTG) with four new preconstructed decks set to release on November 13, 2026. ...

An interview with Ria Lu and an analysis on the perception of video games and young gamers in the Philippines. MANILA, Philippines – There’s been so much attention on video games and heat on the Phili...

Empyrean Technology, China’s top provider of electronic design automation (EDA) tools, plans to acquire a majority stake in a domestic start-up, reinforcing Beijing’s drive for tech self-sufficiency a...

At about 4.20am Singapore time on October 30, while most of Southeast Asia’s crypto traders were asleep, money began leaving Binance. By the time the region’s markets opened, the world’s largest crypt...

On paper, Malaysia’s trade figures read like a victory lap. Technology-related exports jumped about 55 per cent year-on-year in September, and the monthly trade surplus hit its second record high of M...

You don’t have to imagine what an AI Home looks and feels like, because LG has it all set up for you at one of its most important Harvey Norman stores....

For the first time, the amount of inference data generated by artificial intelligence systems in China has surpassed the amount of data used to train those systems, according to a new government-backe...

The new safety measures alerts parents when their teenager’s searches or conversations with Meta AI suggest they might need help....

A passport is not a clever piece of paper. Anyone with a good printer and bad intentions can fake one. What makes it work is the government standing behind it, an authority that vouched for the holder...

Startup Island TAIWAN, the national startup brand of Taiwan, backed by the National Development Council (NDC), led 33 Taiwanese deep-tech startups to the Taiwan Pavilion at SWITCH 2026 in Singapore fr...