Malaysia is witnessing global technology firms rolling out digital learning platforms to accelerate the digital economy and improve the education system amidst the challenges of COVID-19. Leading IT companies such as Huawei, Coursera, Apple, Google, and Microsoft are...
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) has expressed support to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of the Philippines by extending some of its cybersecurity services to companies in light of the SEC’s call for private companies to...
The Singaporean Government has assigned more than SGD 500 million (USD 360 million) to support businesses as they digitalize amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This sum is part of the government’s fourth package, dubbed the Fortitude Budget, of SGD 33 billion (USD 24...
Thailand announced that it was collaborating with Power Ledger, an Australian blockchain startup, to boost peer-to-peer trading of renewable energy. Thai Digital Energy Development (TDED) – a public-private joint venture – has signed a deal with Power Ledger to...
FPT, Vietnam’s leading information technology firm, has partnered with Schaeffler, a German automotive supplier, for a digital manufacturing initiative. This cooperation is a part of Schaeffler’s global pilot project for a new digital manufacturing concept and it is...
Loop Insights Inc, a provider of artificial intelligence solutions to brick and mortar retailers, announced on April 14 that it had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), and will enter into a joint venture partnership, with Frontier Technology to gain access to...
The Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC) is working with BloomBloc, a blockchain development company based in Switzerland and Malaysia, to implement blockchain technology in the country’s palm oil industry. This project aims to reinforce MPOC’s commitment to sustainable,...
Bank of Philippine Islands (BPI), the country’s fourth largest bank in terms of assets, has tapped Swiss leading fintech service provider, Avaloq, to digitalize BPI’s customer services in all its units ranging from private banking, investment banking and asset...
Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) recently named Singtel Mobile Singapore Pte Ltd (Singtel) and the Joint-Venture Consortium (JVCo) formed by StarHub Mobile Pte Ltd (StarHub) and M1 Limited (M1) as the winners of its 5G Call for...
Siam Commercial Bank (SCB), one of Thailand’s largest banks by assets, has revealed the formation of a partnership with Ripple which provides an enterprise blockchain solution for global payments. Following a successful exit from the Bank of Thailand (BoT)...
The State Bank of Vietnam, the country’s central bank, announced that a mobile money pilot project has been submitted to the Prime Minister (PM) for approval. It involves mobile subscribers using their mobile accounts to make payments, up to a limited value. In...
Huawei Cloud and Singapore-based learning technology company ULearning have agreed to collaborate for a project providing an e-learning system Universitas Muhammadiyah Jakarta, one of Jakarta’s most prestigious private universities. The e-learning solution is...
