Myanmar, China

BRI project set to benefit ASEAN countries, observers, leaders say (Myanmar Times)

“China-Myanmar cooperation brings economic benefits and projects are carried out in accordance with Myanmar’s national plans and priorities with socially responsible and environmentally conservative models. We need to find methods...

Vietnam

Vietnam developer and Sumitomo join to build $4BN smart city (Nikkei Asian Review)

Leading Vietnamese developer BRG Group and Japanese trading house Sumitomo Corp. will spend 450 billion yen ($4.21 billion) to develop a smart city on the outskirts of Hanoi. The project, slated to be...

ASEAN

Thailand, Vietnam and Philippines named as likely 5G laggards (Nikkei Asian Review)

Management consulting firm A.T. Kearney published a report in late September that projected that 5G penetration will reach at most 40% within almost all of the 10 countries of the...

Southeast Asia

SE Asia’s digital economy may treble to US$300b by 2025, S’pore ‘punching above weight’: Report (Today Online)

With the rise of e-commerce, ride hailing and online gaming in South-east Asia, the region’s Internet economy could swell to US$300 billion (about S$415 billion) by 2025, three times its...

Asia Pacific

Challenges loom for Asia’s digital landscape (Inquirer)

Last week, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) released its first ever annual Digital Economy Report (2019). “Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines have the scale, with populations over...

Taiwan, Philippines

IoT in Focus: Taiwan Excellence Showcases Select IoT Solutions at 30th Asia IoT Business Platform (Manila Bulletin)

Showcasing Taiwan’s expertise in IoT and other related fields, Taiwan Excellence is taking part as one of the key exhibitors at the 30th edition of the Asia IoT Business Platform in...

Asia Pacific

What's Tripping You Up On The Path To Digital Transformation? (Forbes)

Enterprises globally have entered into a race to transform how they operate through the digitalization of every business unit in the hopes of remaining competitive, but there are four common...

Indonesia

Indonesia-South Korea Strengthens Industrial Sector Cooperation Priority 4.0 (Merdeka)

The Indonesian government continues to improve bilateral cooperation with South Korea in various fields, especially in the industrial sector. Whether it's an increase in trade or investment. In order to open up...

Thailand

CAT tasked with expanding internet infrastructure (The Nation)

The Digital Economy and Society (DE) Ministry has disbursed Bt5 billion for the upgrade and development of Thailand’s internet infrastructure towards helping the country achieve its goal of becoming the...

Asia Pacific

Trust a key element to propel the digital economy: Asia Pacific ICT ministers (Straits Times)

This digital push must also address the issue of personal data protection across borders, cyber security and the trust that new technologies such as artificial intelligence could be used to...

Southeast Asia

Southeast Asian SMEs challenged by digital transformation (Channel Asia)

According to findings, SMEs currently invest their resources in current technologies (77.2 per cent), transformative technologies (76.4 per cent) and fixed assets (74.0 per cent). SMEs face a number of challenges...

Thailand

Thailand government teams up with Huawei to set up 5G network in the country (Asia One)

China-based information and communications technology giant Huawei, in collaboration with Thailand's Digital Economy and Society Ministry, other government offices, private agencies and leading universities, is now ready to turn the...

ASEAN

Arrow and IBM take smart IoT to airports (Channel Asia)

Arrow Electronics has launched a Smart Airport Asset Management Solution, an Internet of Things (IoT) solution co-created with IBM. The offering is designed to provide airport operators with improved operational...

Thailand

DEPA aims to create innovation hub (The Nation)

DEPA senior executive vice presฌident Passakorn Prathombuts said the agency aims to build up Thailand as a hub of new innovation and technologies for artificial reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), robotics...

Philippines

Are we ready for the future of retail? (The Manila Times)

The Philippines retail sales are forecasted to have grown by 5.5 percent in 2018, an average of around 4.77 percent annually over the past decade. The reported growth rate of...

Market Trends & Outlook

Half Of Senior Leaders Rate Their Business Transformations A Waste Of Time (Forbes)

More than 1,000 C-suite executives and a similar number of business analysts found that nearly half of senior leaders believed their business transformations had been a waste of time.  This...

ASEAN

CFOs are becoming driver of Digital Transformation (Tech Observer)

When it comes to digital transformation of an organisation, most of us think that it is the CIO or CTO that lead the digital transformation journey but that is not always the...

ASEAN

Digital Transformation Is Not About Technology (Harvard Business Review)

A recent survey of  directors, CEOs, and senior executives found that digital transformation (DT) risk is their #1 concern in 2019. Yet 70% of all DT initiatives do not reach their goals. Of...

Indonesia

Indonesia invites Americans to invest in digital economy, tourism (Antara News)

The Indonesian government invited American investors to invest in the digital economy and the development of "10 New Balis", a plan that aims to replicate the economic effects of tourism...

Indonesia

Riding the wave of Asia's technological disruption (The Jakarta Post)

Less than half of the population in the region has access to the internet, Information and communication technologies (ICT) infrastructure is required to jumpstart the digital revolution.  This article originally...