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Nearly half of reported scam cases go unresolved across Southeast Asia, GSMA finds
A survey across six Southeast Asian markets links weak case resolution and loss recovery to declining trust in digital services.
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Ryder plans second Vietnam manufacturing phase for 2027
Ryder Industries says a planned 22,000-square-metre site near its existing Vietnam operation could expand the company’s production capacity in the country by about four times when completed.
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Finmo opens Singapore global headquarters as TreasuryOS expands
Finmo says its new Suntec City headquarters expands office capacity by 50% and will support further investment in treasury intelligence, payments and artificial intelligence from Singapore.
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TEKTELIC and IoT Kreasi target Indonesian water-meter connectivity
The companies say they are collaborating on LoRaWAN infrastructure for a one-million-water-meter initiative, combining TEKTELIC’s network technology with PT IoT Kreasi Indonesia’s local deployment capability.
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Vietnam’s industry ministry registers six strategic-technology tasks for 2026
Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade says the work programme includes a power-system digital twin, industrial robotics and artificial-intelligence applications, tying technology development to industrial capability.
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Singapore moves Digital Infrastructure Bill to First Reading
The proposed law would establish a licensing framework for major cloud and data-centre providers, placing resilience and sustainability requirements closer to the centre of Singapore’s digital-infrastructure policy.
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Firmus links OpenAI agreement to two planned Malaysia AI-factory sites
The Australian infrastructure company says its agreement with OpenAI supports an expansion into Malaysia, adding an early indicator of demand in the region’s race for AI-compute capacity.
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InfraNexia and XLSMART widen shared connectivity infrastructure across Indonesia
New agreements cover high-capacity links, bandwidth upgrades and shared passive infrastructure across Kalimantan, Nusa Tenggara, Sulawesi and Sumatra.
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Fugro develops an AI marine digital twin in Singapore for regional deployment
The commercial Geo-data platform will combine survey, site-investigation, laboratory and imaging inputs, with Singapore positioned as its Asia-Pacific launchpad.
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Singapore startup Estha brings private AI agents onto Apple-silicon Macs
The product moves supported document and workplace workflows onto hardware controlled by the user, offering a different trade-off from cloud-based enterprise AI.
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GCash parent Mynt clears a key gate towards a potential record Philippine IPO
Regulatory clearance advances a proposed offering of up to PHP92.32 billion, but pricing, completion and the final capital raised remain unresolved.
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Frencken raises S$100 million as it expands Singapore mechatronics capacity
The completed placement strengthens the engineering group’s balance sheet while a new Singapore facility moves towards a planned 2027 opening.