Thailand

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, KMUTT build AI for EEC hub (Bangkok Post)

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Thailand, a local unit of the US tech firm, is joining forces with King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) to build a high-performance computing prototype...

Philippines

Philippines: The Dark Horse No More?

Digital initiatives has been identified as one of the key areas that would bolster Philippine's growth and the government has committed to 5 – 7% spending on infrastructure. Department of...

Philippines

Philippines - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses (Yahoo Finance)

Telecommunications investment in the Philippines will continue to see increasing emphasis on supporting high speed broadband access. The bulk of the fixed services are in urban areas. The fixed line market in the...

Thailand

Ministry of Digital for Economy launches Cloud Service (Thailand Business News)

Cloud Service can be used immediately by government agencies and the project plans to open Cloud Computing orientation courses for over 2,500 government officials. This article originally appeared on Thailand...

Thailand

Microsoft advises AI regulation under Personal Data Protection Act (Bangkok Post)

Microsoft Thailand, the local operating unit of the US-based technology firm, suggests the Thai government endorse artificial intelligence (AI) regulation under its new Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) to build more...

Malaysia

Designing and IoT Roadmap Architecture - Key Takeaways from day 2 of Asia IoT Business Platform Malaysia 2019

Day 2 addressed the essential questions in helping our audience - SMEs and large corporations included - to design their very own IoT roadmap. Over the day, multiple case studies from...

Thailand

En Route to Thailand 4.0

With the help our advisory panel comprised of four main stakeholders across the digital ecosystem - government agencies, telecommunication companies, solution partners, local end users - we have identified 2 key growth areas set...

Thailand

Thailand's investment agency nods to Bt2.28 tn investment (Eleven Myanmar)

The Board of Investment (BOI) has approved investment proposals by both Thai and foreign firms of about Bt2.28 trillion for four years, with 54 per cent of them targeting the...

Malaysia

Intelligent Transport for Malaysia's Smart City Vision

Since the introduction of Smart Cities Initiatives as part of the 11th Malaysia Plan (2016-2020), Malaysia has started deploying an intelligent IoT network in cities like KL, Iskandar, Selangor and Putrajaya. These...

Thailand

Documents take on new meaning in digital era (The Nation)

A long-established leader in copying and document solutions, Fuji Xerox has turned to the “smart work innovation” concept to help implement the government’s policy for Thailand 4.0 and Asean Industrial...

Indonesia

Kominfo Commits to Digital Infrastructure Development (Tempo)

The Communication and Informatics (Kominfo) Minister Rudiantara revealed Indonesia’s digital infrastructure development plans in terms of investment for the next two years. “I can assure that the investment for the...

Malaysia

Mobility: A key aspect in Malaysia’s Smart City Plans

Malaysia is the 3rd largest economy in Southeast Asia. GDP growth has been strong, with 2018 growth rate forecasted to come in at 5.4%. According to the Nielsen Global Survey...

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...

Malaysia

SMEs still not using digitalisation enablers (The Edge Markets)

Although Malaysian small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are receptive to using digital technologies to enhance their businesses in general, they are still not availing themselves of digitalisation enablers such as...

Malaysia

UEM Edgenta and Proton in new energy initiative (New Straits Times)

UEM Edgenta Bhd has been roped in by Proton Holdings Bhd to manage and implement the national carmaker’s energy efficiency initiatives over seven years. Under the Energy Performance Contract (EPC), UEM...

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...

China

China launches seven small satellites for Internet of Things (IoT Business News)

The ladybeetle series will be used to test a closed-loop system for the Internet of Things (IOT), which includes satellites, cloud computing platforms, ground control stations and terminals, said Peng Yuanyuan,...

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...

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...

Southeast Asia

New Southbound Policy: Taiwanese tech firms eye SE Asia (Taipei Times)

ASEAN nations and India are increasingly focused on Industry 4.0 — the trend of automation and data exchange in manufacturing, cloud computing, the Internet of Things and cognitive computing —...