The ASEAN Smart Cities Network (ASCN) is now in its second year running. Yet smart city goals, such as the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), have been overshadowed by concerns of geopolitical tensio…
Digital Economy
Infrastructure before Implementation: A road map to e-learning in Nepal
With the current Covid-19 crisis forcing everyone to be locked inside homes, it has halted almost every industry from aviation to hospitality and education. The degree of impact caused by the virus is…
Asean firms look to China for payment technology
Chinese financial technology firms have matured under a favourable domestic policy regime with very different standards compared with other markets. Whether or not these companies can adapt successful…
Alibaba Aims To ‘Speed Up’ COVID-19 Recovery With $28 Billion Data Center Investment
China’s biggest cloud computing provider, Alibaba Cloud, will invest a whopping $28.2 billion in cloud infrastructure and the construction of data centers over the next three years as it prepares to h…
Vietnam: Digital economy expected to increase labour productivity
Việt Nam needed to invest in the digital economy and seize the opportunities it provided to improve labour productivity. The information was released at the annual Vietnam economic evaluation report r…
Digital economy expected to increase labour productivity
Việt Nam needed to invest in the digital economy and seize the opportunities it provided to improve labour productivity. The information was released at the annual Vietnam economic evaluation report r…
BPO industry in Philippines seen benefitting as firms abroad cut costs due to pandemic
The Philippines’ business process outsourcing industry may stand to benefit from the “next wave” of outsourcing as companies around the world cut costs due to the COVID-19 pandemic, …
App innovation in Malaysia during tough times
Many techpreneurs are seeing their start-ups fall, and techies are back at the drawing board, thinking up the next big thing. As people adapt to spending more time indoors, creative solutions for real…
Vietnam: Banks offer higher rates for online savings to draw clients amid COVID-19 battle
To encourage customers to deposit money online amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many banks have raised interest rates for online savings by up to 1.4 per cent higher than over-the-counter deposits. Short-t…
Malaysia: MDEC bridge startups with global investors virtually
The Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) and KK Fund Pte Ltd announced a virtual investor-matching initiative for local startups that are seeking capital injection amid the current economic slo…