China

Keppel Corporation subsidiary to develop smart IoT city in China (Singapore Business Review)

Keppel Corporation’s subsidiary Keppel Urban Solutions signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Administrative Committee of Jiangsu Wuxi Economic Development Zone and marketing communications firm Envision Group to develop...

Singapore

M1 inks deal to develop Jurong Port into advanced digital smart port (Singapore Business Review)

M1 signed a Memorandum on Understanding (MOU) with Jurong Port to provide a terminal-wide wireless private network to support the port’s transformation into an advanced digital smart port, an announcement...

Singapore

French aerospace firm Thales expands Singapore operations with new digital lab (The Straits Times)

French aerospace company Thales has added a new 'digital factory' to its stable of research labs in Singapore, with the aim of producing high tech data-based solutions for the region...

ASEAN

KPMG: CEOs still rely on intuition in this digital and data-driven era (The Star)

According to KPMG’s “2018 Global CEO Outlook: Growing pains” report, CEOs are excited about the sweeping changes that technology brings. At 95%, almost all CEOs see technological disruption as more of...

Indonesia

Kominfo Promises to Raise Next Month IoT Frequency Regulation (CNN Indonesia)

The Ministry of Communication and Information (Kemenkominfo) through the Directorate General of Resources and Equipment of Post and Information Technology (SDPPI) revealed plans to spawn frequency and spectrum usage regulations...

Thailand

IoT regulations due next year (Bangkok Post)

A series of regulatory conditions for the Internet of Things (IoT) and related device connectivity are scheduled to be implemented by 2019 to handle machine-to-machine connectivity in the industrial sector, with...

Singapore

New innovation centre here to give firms access to technology that transmits data using light (The Straits Times)

Photonics, the science behind how light transmits data, is already in use here in fibre optic cables that provide people with Internet connection, but its potential is huge, said American...

Thailand

Arrow Electronics Teams up with 10 Global Technology Suppliers to Help Thai Businesses Adopt Integrated IoT Solutions (Viet Nam News)

According to a survey conducted by Asia IoT Business Platform in 2017, companies in Thailand were most likely (89%) to explore and/or implement IoT solutions. This was followed by Malaysia...

Asia Pacific

Asia's overstretched airports brace for 4bn flyers (Nikkei Asian Review)

In the Asia-Pacific region alone, 228 new airports are being built, according to the CAPA Center for Aviation, a Sydney-based industry think tank. That is more than half the global...

Thailand

AIS invites Thais to experience 5G First Live in Thailand on 22 November (The Nation)

After securing an additional 10MHz of spectrum on the 1800MHz band in August 2018, AIS has become the digital network service operator with the most bandwidth with a total 120MHz...

Singapore

New initiatives launched to help companies adopt emerging technologies (Channel NewsAsia)

Call centres of the future may be able to predict the reason for a customer’s call, and banks could prompt clients to raise their credit limit ahead of a weekend...

ASEAN

Government Key Initiatives and Enterprise Digitisation Projects in ASEAN in 2018

Ranked third in terms of population, sixth in GDP and fourth in trade value, ASEAN remains to be a key player in the global economy, however, ASEAN's digital economy still...

Southeast Asia

The potential of 5G in Southeast Asia (The ASEAN Post)

The mobile market in ASEAN is so big that all member countries have an average of more than 100 percent active mobile internet connections as opposed to population. The number of...

ASEAN

Asean e-commerce pact paves way for digital economy (Malay Mail)

The Asean agreement on e-commerce paves the way for the digital economy to further flourish in the region, while advancing trade rules and building digital connectivity within it. The Asean...

Myanmar

A country full of potential, from 2G to 4G in less than 3 years - 27th Asia IoT Business Platform in Myanmar

U Soe Thein, Director General of the Post and Telecommunications Department under the Ministry of Transport and Communications said in his Government Keynote Address today that “IoT, blockchains, AI, big...

Vietnam

Is IoT a problem solver or a problem creator in Vietnam - 26th Asia IoT Business Platform

In 2018, smart cities topics continue to be a major focus in digital transformation in Vietnam. This year, cyber security issues seem to have made it to Vietnam's list when...

Southeast Asia

No digibanks as OCBC opts for digital transformation (The Straits Times)

OCBC Bank's digital transformation is bearing fruit, with costs down and more customers transacting online, said chief executive Samuel Tsien yesterday. This article originally appeared on The Straits Times on...

Malaysia

Celcom announced they will partner with several tech and government agencies with IoT solutions (TechNave)

With the uprising of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) solutions, Celcom Axiata Berhad has announced that the blue telco will be partnering with several technology partners and government agencies for the development of IoT business...

Singapore

KaHa Leads Strategic Multipartite IoT Innovation Lab – the COVE R2C IoT Innovation Lab – to Accelerate Singapore IoT Development and Commercialization (Business Insider)

Internet of Things (IoT) and smart wearable company KaHa today announced plans to open a multipartite innovation and research lab in Singapore This article originally appeared on the Business Insider on 26th...

Malaysia

Three strategic initiatives of 2019 Budget (New Straits Times)

The Malaysia Incorporated Policy will be reintroduced as part of efforts to promote an entrepreneurial state. The report said this was in line with the government’s new approach to stimulating...