Digital Asia

Singapore Tourism Board (STB) collaborated with Pokémon Go’s developer and American AR technology company to feature local tourism offerings.

Vietnam has become digital nation to boosts connectivity for improvements to the digital citizenship & digital lifestyle components.

Alibaba sales for its Covid-19 Single day shopping extravaganza hit S$101.6 billion, a haul that was overshadowed by a 10% drop.

Singapore Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) added iris and facial biometric scan technology at border checkpoints and replacing fingerprint scans.

Vietnam information minister accused foreign streaming companies like Netflix and Apple of skirting their tax responsibilities.

The city of Cyberjaya has now become the first Malaysian city to adopt a national QR code for cashless payments.

Malaysian government has introduced several incentives to boost the adoption of high-technologies (high-tech) in the local industries.

Lazada Malaysia has welcomed the government’s efforts, through Budget 2021, to boost e-commerce and e-wallets for businesses to go online.

Alibaba overtakes IBM on global cloud leaderboard, announced its quarterly cloud revenue of US$2.194 billion — it passed IBM’s US$1.65 billion revenue result.

SoftBank Group Corp said on Monday it spent US$1.35 billion repurchasing almost 20 million shares in October, part of a record buyback plan.