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Thailand’s labour crisis and the refugees building its AI future
One photograph in a recent Nikkei Asia report says more about Southeast Asia’s tech economy than most investor decks I have read this year. It shows Myanmar refugees working on a data centre construction site in Chonburi, eastern Thailand. Sit with that for a moment. People who…
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Singapore’s factories are riding the AI wave, but the optimism rests on a narrow base
Singapore’s manufacturers are in their most buoyant mood in recent memory, and they largely have one customer category to thank: the AI data centre. A net weighted balance of 24 per cent of manufacturers expect business conditions to improve between October 2026 and March 2027,…
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SCB 10X Invests in Tasklet, AI Agent Platform for Business Workflow Automation, in Its Latest Funding Round
Bangkok, October 26, 2026 – SCB 10X, the disruptive technology investment arm of SCBX Group, announced its investment in Tasklet, an AI agent platform that enables businesses to automate complex workflows and delegate operational tasks to AI agents. Tasklet has raised an…
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Ecosystem Roundup: North Korea’s US$6.4B Binance heist took 54 minutes and isn’t over
North Korea’s TraderTraitor group drained about US$6.4 billion from Binance in the early hours of 30 October, Singapore time, according to a Chainalysis reconstruction that puts the loss slightly above the exchange’s own US$6.3 billion estimate. No cryptography was broken. A…
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Krungsri buys into Amity as the Thai AI group dresses its cap table for an IPO
Eight months after Amity announced a Series D of more than US$100 million, the round is still open for business. The Thailand-founded AI group said on Monday that Finnoventure Private Equity Trust I, a fund managed by Krungsri Finnovate, has come in as a strategic investor,…
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Vynn Capital backs Econili as Malaysia bets on recycling its battery waste
Econili Battery New Energy likes to think big. The Ipoh-based recycler has described itself as the largest lithium-ion battery recycler in ASEAN. It talks about plants on two continents and a listing on Nasdaq. thesun The latest deal is a good deal smaller. Econili has raised an…
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The crypto independence story is fragile: Bitcoin now moves on elections, oil and missiles
The leading digital asset fell 1.69 per cent to US$76,940.91 over 24 hours, while the total crypto market capitalisation dropped 1.68 per cent. That near-perfect match matters. I don’t see this as a coin-specific move. It is a unified repricing of risk across global markets, and…
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Taiwan and Singapore back NSV’s US$53M bet on Asia’s biotech pipeline
Raising a debut fund in 2026 is hard. Raising one for biotech, a sector investors have spent four years avoiding, is harder still. NeoSci Ventures (NSV) says it has done it anyway. The Singapore-, Taiwan- and US-based venture builder has announced a first close of SGD70 million…
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Indonesia urgently needs an allergy data centre to support national food security
Food allergy in Indonesia is a real concern, and we cannot ignore it. According to CNN Indonesia, about 1.7 million children in Indonesia have allergies, and cow’s milk is one of the triggers. This number was shared by Ray Wagiu Basrowi, a doctor and researcher, during World…
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Vietnam’s climate-tech has a missing middle, and women founders are falling into it
In Vietnam’s climate-tech scene, a founder can win a grant and, with luck, eventually land a cheque worth several million dollars. What she is increasingly unlikely to find is anything in between. Recorded climate tech funding in Vietnam fell 52 per cent in 2025 to US$49.86…
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Singapore and Romania don’t need another MOU. They need first customers
On a weekday afternoon in late October, a group of Romanian founders pitched to a Singapore audience over Teams. One of them signed off with a plain request. He would be in Singapore the week of the Singapore Fintech Festival, he said, and he’d love an introduction to anyone who…
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Are AI fears genuine? Why we should demand evidence, not alarm
Over the past couple of months, I’ve come across several perspectives from AI founders that have made me question whether the fears surrounding AI are genuine concerns or narratives being shaped to serve their own interests. Recent comments by some of the biggest names in the…
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HKSTP drives Hong Kong mobility innovators to test and scale in Singapore
Ask a Hong Kong engineer why their product deserves a place abroad and you will often hear the same answer: the city is the hardest test bed they know. Towers scramble satellite signals, space is scarce, labour is expensive and safety rules leave little room for error. Survive…
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In Southeast Asia, winning at home may no longer be enough
For years, Southeast Asian founders were told to win their home market before expanding abroad. Prove the product, build the team, establish revenue, then move into neighbouring countries. That advice still makes sense. But for startups seeking institutional venture capital, it…
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Binance’s US$6.4B hack was decided in 54 minutes, and the chase isn’t over
At about 4.20am Singapore time on October 30, while most of Southeast Asia’s crypto traders were asleep, money began leaving Binance. By the time the region’s markets opened, the world’s largest crypto exchange had suffered the biggest theft in crypto history. Blockchain…
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Malaysia is selling more chips, but it isn’t winning more of the market
On paper, Malaysia’s trade figures read like a victory lap. Technology-related exports jumped about 55 per cent year-on-year in September, and the monthly trade surplus hit its second record high of MYR 34 billion (US$8.38 billion). When looking closer, though, the boom appears…
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AI agents need someone standing behind them, says AmanTrue CEO Evin McMullen
A passport is not a clever piece of paper. Anyone with a good printer and bad intentions can fake one. What makes it work is the government standing behind it, an authority that vouched for the holder and can withdraw that vouching the moment something goes wrong. Evin McMullen…
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Startup Island TAIWAN leads 33 deep-tech startups to SWITCH 2026, advancing their expansion into Singapore
Startup Island TAIWAN, the national startup brand of Taiwan, backed by the National Development Council (NDC), led 33 Taiwanese deep-tech startups to the Taiwan Pavilion at SWITCH 2026 in Singapore from October 27 to 29, in partnership with Startup Terrace, Hsinchu Science Park…
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Ask for what’s missing: Inside the machine behind “The Breaking Point” — Part 2
In my last article, I described how the SR21 x World Government Summit workshop in Dubai was curated, planned, and run with AI as the orchestrator, piloted by two part-time organisers, Khor Zijian and Lin Fanghong. I promised a closer look at the engine underneath: Machine…
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AI prepared every decision. It did not raise the ceiling on scale
Every week, the meetings I sit in across the businesses I work with are recorded, and an AI system turns each one into four lists: decisions, risks, blockers and next priorities. It takes minutes. I rely on it. After months of reading those lists back to back, one thing is hard…