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Sanas expands its Philippine speech-AI push with new market leadership
Jack Madrid and Christopher Venturina are set to support enterprise and BPO relationships as the company deepens its local presence.
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GCash brings instant overseas tax refunds into its Philippine wallet
The Alipay+ and Global Blue service converts eligible refunds into pesos across 16 countries.
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Vietnam Startup Community Day puts ecosystem links in focus
The 18–23 August programme brings founders, investors and support organisations together ahead of a main event on 21 August.
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Tech Data expands IBM distribution to six more Asia-Pacific markets
The channel expansion adds Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia and the Philippines to Tech Data’s Southeast Asian IBM footprint.
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ChatGPT’s teen experience begins rolling out to Singapore
Age prediction, added content safeguards and optional parental controls put product design—not only policy—at the centre of the youth AI-safety debate.
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Tech Data wins IBM distribution growth award for Asia Pacific
The 2026 IBM Partner Plus recognition points to the distributor’s role in helping regional partners take AI and hybrid-cloud systems into customer environments.
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Vietnam and the Philippines need more local value from the chip boom
Both countries have entered the World Bank’s upper-middle-income group, but moving towards high-income status will depend on turning semiconductor exports into deeper design, supplier and skills capability.
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Indonesia prepares electric-motorcycle incentive, but regulation is still pending
The Industry Ministry says it is ready to administer a proposed Rp5 million incentive for local electric-vehicle manufacturing, while the amount, eligible brands and start date still depend on a Finance Ministry regulation.
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Penang plan shifts semiconductor focus towards chip design
The draft 2040 structure plan targets higher-value design, system architecture and prototype development while building local technology suppliers around the state’s manufacturing base.
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Indonesia expands digital social-aid registration to 153 districts
The operating rollout covers all 38 provinces and is intended to improve targeting for two large assistance programmes, with expansion to other benefits still planned.
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Indonesia develops N219 aircraft options for remote medical access
BRIN and PTDI are refining land and amphibious versions of the locally developed aircraft, with a flying-ambulance role still presented as a future application.
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Indonesia tests coal waste as a source of battery-grade graphite
BRIN researchers report 96.8 per cent structural conformity in artificial graphite made from coal waste, an early research result aimed at a more local electric-vehicle battery supply chain.