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...

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 —...

Malaysia

No time to lose to gear up for Industry 4.0 (The Edge Financial Daily)

Malaysian companies should not be too worried as they are in the best position to take advantage of Industry 4.0, according to Fusionex International vice-president for new technologies Raju Chellam....

Malaysia

IT players seek greater incentives to build ‘Digital Malaysia’ (The Edge Financial Daily)

“Malaysia’s advantage is that its cost of doing business is three times lower and this alone can attract more big tech companies to grow their business here, and simultaneously contribute...

Asia Pacific

Securing smart cities in the age of IoT and AI (Enterprise Innovation)

By 2021, approximately 60% of Asia Pacific’s GDP will be derived from digital products or service and grow by 0.8% CAGR annually. One of the three top benefits of this evolution...

Vietnam, US

Giant US Companies Seeking Digital Transformation Partners from Vietnam (Business Wire)

Top leaders from 20 billion-dollar enterprises from various industries including AES Corporation, Walmart, GE Global, AT&T, IBM, PepsiCo, AIG, FedEx, etc. joined a Business Breakfast with Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen...

Asia Pacific

Global study reveals that 75% of APAC IT Security Teams believe that their IoT devices are not secure (Business Insider)

More than three-quarters of respondents believe their IoT devices are not secure, with 75 percent stating even simple IoT devices pose a threat. Two-thirds of respondents admitted they have little...

ASEAN

Closing the digital divide (The ASEAN Post)

As an economic bloc, ASEAN is the fifth largest economy in the world. However, this is not reflected in the adoption of digital transformation. ASEAN member countries rank from top...