Southeast Asia Connect
Named and dated developments across Southeast Asia.
Why this matters: two more Johor projects on Singapore’s conditional-approval list expand the route for cross-border power trade and regional grid investment. EMA’s 7 August update does not authorise construction or power delivery.
SAP and Oxford Economics surveyed 200 Singapore business leaders: only 2% said their companies were fully prepared for agentic AI, making data, skills and governance the immediate operating issue.
The Singapore lab will study purpose-built AI for interactive digital environments, giving NUS researchers and Razer engineers a shared route from foundational research to tested gaming applications.
A 7 August JBS filing says Danantara Investment Management would acquire 25% of a venture spanning Indonesia, other Southeast Asian markets, Australia and New Zealand; a regional food-production and supply-chain investment subject to approvals and closing conditions.
TikTok Shop says it aims to support more than 3,000 creators by end-2026 and train at least 1,000 local sellers by end-2027 through expanded commerce programmes.
The organiser says its 7–8 October event at Marina Bay Sands is set to span five floors, with attendance, company and programme figures still presented as expectations rather than completed outcomes.
Decision 33 classifies 46 AI systems across six fields as high risk, putting human oversight and transition deadlines on the operating agenda for technology providers and deployers.
A planned computing hub aims to expand the country’s AI capacity, services and locally developed language models.
The president says research and development investment is inadequate and points to budget savings, stronger governance and anti-corruption efforts as possible sources of additional funding.
The partners launched updated lending and transaction-banking platforms in Hanoi as Vietnamese banks weigh artificial intelligence, risk and operating resilience.
The Singapore optics company has withdrawn its Nasdaq application while prioritising purchase orders, production capacity and customer qualification.
The regional launch combines official-store distribution with running-community events across Southeast Asia, testing how ecommerce platforms connect digital demand with local participation.