Thailand

Thailand tops global digital rankings (Bangkok Post)

Thailand ranked No.1 for mobile banking users, second for ownership of cryptocurrency, and third in mobile commerce, according to the Global Digital Report 2019. There are 92 million mobile subscribers, 133%...

Thailand

Central Group invests US$200 million in Grab Thailand (The Nation)

Central Group Executive Chairman and CEO, Tos Chirathivat commented, “We are pleased to announce our strategic partnership with Grab Holdings Inc, by investing US$200 million in Grab and acquiring a...

ASEAN

Summary of Discussions from Asia IoT Business Platform 2019, Singapore

Asia IoT Business Platform hosted 2019 launchpad regional event in Singapore on 15 January 2019, gathering government representatives and key enterprises from Southeast Asia. The gathering was kick-started by the keynote...

Thailand

Smart buses a priority for Democrats (Bangkok Post)

The Democrat Party rolled out its policy platform Sunday, aimed at upgrading Bangkok residents' quality of life, including a smart bus project to push for 5,000 electric buses in seven...

Southeast Asia

Powering Smart City Developments in South East Asia

Southeast Asia is expected to become the world’s 4th largest economy by 2030 with projected growth rates of 5.2% between 2018 and 2022. As urbanisation and industrialisation in ASEAN increases,...

Thailand

ETDA plans digital workforce (Bangkok Post)

The Electronic Transactions Development Agency (ETDA) aims to attract 1 million teenagers to join the e-commerce workforce and 200,000 micro-SMEs to go online this year to boost the online economy. ...

Thailand

Grab awaits legal progress amid domination (Bangkok Post)

Ride-sharing service Grab plans to expand to key areas in Thailand in 2019, most notably Chiang Rai, hoping to achieve nationwide service in the next 2-3 years, a goal that could...

Thailand

IoT Development in Thailand - AIBP Singapore 2018 Throwback

Thailand 4.0 aims to hasten the pace of economic transformation in Thailand, shifting forward her economy to a value-based and innovation-driven economy. Under this initiative, the Thai government has identified...

Southeast Asia

The Key to TRUE Global Connectivity?

In Thailand, around 58% of the population have internet access. Most of the population that do not have internet access live in rural areas. New satellite technology may be the solution...

Thailand

Public Health Ministry pushes use of emerging technology by state hospitals (The Nation)

Hospitals under the Public Health Ministry supervision are encouraged to tap the power of emerging technologies such as IoT, Big Data and AI which could improve health services and operational systems including patient data...

Thailand

Telecoms offer digital hand to improve business performance (The Nation)

The digital transformation in Thailand is expected to attain macroeconomic scale and impact in 2019 and beyond as organisations accelerate their transformation to become a “Digital Native Enterprise”, says Phanchanok...

Thailand

Schneider Electric expanding with IoT (Bangkok Post)

France-based Schneider Electric has committed to expanding its business presence in Southeast Asia with an Internet of Things (IoT) concept called EcoStruxure. Thailand was chosen as the first country in this...

Thailand

Asean cities to ‘GET SMART’ (The Nation)

Thailand will play a leading role in implementing the smart-city network covering 26 cities in the 10 Asean countries as the Kingdom takes over as the bloc’s chair next year,...

Thailand

Is Thailand 4.0 coming to fruition? (The ASEAN Post)

Thailand has also identified 10 S-curve industries that will propel the country to developed nation status. The S-curve industries are divided into two categories – S-curve and New S-curve. S-curve...

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...

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...

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...