On August 4th, China fired live-fire drills near Taiwan as a sign of retaliation to the visit of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. This has led to Airlines canceling flights to Taipei and rerouting others to avoid the nearby airspace that has been closed to civilian...
It has just been announced that the Defense Technology Institute (DTI), Thailand’s defence research and development (R&D) agency, will partner with global aerospace and technology company Paramount Group and Jatunapas, one of Thailand’s leading defence and...
On June 30th, 2022 Bombardier inaugurated the largest OEM business aviation maintenance facility in Asia Pacific, the transformed Service Center, at the Seletar Aerospace Park, Singapore. Opened in 2014, the Singapore Service Center has quadrupled in size, with enough...
Filipinos in geographically-isolated and disadvantaged areas (GIDA) may soon enjoy free high-speed and low-latency internet service brought by SpaceX’s Starlink through the Philippine Department of Information and Communications Technology’s (DICT) ‘BroadBand ng...
During the Farnborough International Airshow in the United Kingdom in 2022, the low-cost airline Vietjet and Boeing reconfirmed a previously announced order for 200 737 MAX aircraft. According to the agreement, Thai Vietjet, a Vietjet affiliate in Thailand, will...
Japan’s Ground Self-Defence Force will take part in the Garuda Shield multilateral training exercise held by Indonesia next month for the first time with the US and Australia. The yearly drills, which usually take place between Indonesia and the United States,...
It has been recently announced that the Royal Thai Navy intends to enter into an agreement to procure seven Hermes 900 UAVs from Israeli defense electronics company Elbit Systems. According to local media, Hermes’ offer bested more than a dozen proposals from Turkey,...
Malaysia has signed several memorandums of understanding (MoUs) in various fields including defense with Turkey during the official visit of Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob to the Republic in July 2022. Ismail has also visited Turkey’s two...
Thailand is calling for the private sector to invest in increasing the number of aerospace engineers, which currently do not meet the country’s demand. A key focus is represented by the need to increase research funds to students at high school and university...
The state government of Sarawak, the largest state in Malaysia, is exploring sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to sustainably produce jet fuel and reduce aviation carbon emission with potential partners from Brunei, Indonesia and South Korea. Sarawak is developing SAF...
To encourage future development, the Società Esercizi Aeroportuali (SEA) of Italy and the Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) have signed a sister airport agreement. This was within the framework of Routes Asia 2022, which took place from June 6 to 9 in Da Nang,...
On the last week of June 2022, the Philippine Department of National Defense (DND) and South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) signed the PHP 30 billion (USD 533 million) offshore patrol vessel (OPV) contract, which seeks to provide six OPVs to the...
