SIRIM, Malaysia’s national organization for standards and quality, is planning to set-up a Smart Manufacturing Experience Centre in 2021, as the country aims to be the primary destination for the high-tech industry by being a total solutions provider for advanced...
PayMaya, the Philippines’ only end to end digital payment solutions provider, aims to fully digitalize the entire transportation chain with the support of the Department of Transportation (DOTr) and the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB)....
The Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) selected 9 companies, namely Singapore based Group IB, Secure IC, Acronis, Amaris.AI, Scantist, SecureAge and InsiderSecurity as well as multinationals EY Advisory and Emerson, from 87 submissions in the second call for...
Thaicom and CAT Telecom recently announced the creation of Nation Space and Technology Company Limited, a joint venture (JV) between the two companies. The JV will focus on strengthening Thailand’s telecommunications infrastructure and supporting the growth of the...
ShopBack, the Asia Pacific region’s leading rewards and discovery platform, launched its website and mobile app in Vietnam on August 8th. Founded in 2014, ShopBack now serves over 20 million users in nine markets across the Asia Pacific including, beside Vietnam,...
In July 2020, the Digital Economy Promotion Agency (DEPA) of Thailand has announced an objective to transform 100 cities across the country into smart cities in two years, with the aim of improving the economy and the quality of life. Cities in six provinces (Phuket,...
Military Commercial Joint Stock Bank (MB) has chosen Temenos Infinity Wealth to deliver digital wealth management services to its private banking customers. MB, one of the top five banks in Vietnam in terms of assets size, will integrate Temenos Infinity Wealth with...
Chinese tech giant, Alibaba has confirmed the opening of its third data center in Indonesia by 2021. The new data center will offer a full spectrum of cloud products and services from database, security, network to machine learning and data analytics. The expansion is...
The Central Bank of Malaysia, Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM), has issued a policy document Electronic Know-Your-Customer (e-KYC). The policy document aims to accelerate and streamline practices of industry players in their adoption of e-KYC technology, the online process...
The Bureau of Treasury (BTr) of the Philippines has officially launched a bond buying app, the first in Asia to offer retail treasury bonds leveraging on blockchain technology. Bonds.PH aims to provide easy investment options to the unbanked population of the country...
The Singaporean government plans to increase the total projected value of its ITC contacts for fiscal year 2020 to USD 2.52 Billion, representing a 30% increase from 2019. This is being done in order to help companies through the COVID-19 crisis and also to accelerate...
An Indonesian data management startup, Delman, that helps companies to clean up data, has raised USD 1.6 million in seed funding. The fresh funding is going towards establishing a research & development center and hiring data scientists and data engineers. Founded...
