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The roadmap for a baht-backed stablecoin

Over the past few years, Thailand has emerged as one of Southeast Asia's most proactive and structured hosts for digital asset regulation. Driven by a high level of retail crypto adoption, a tech-savvy population and strong institutional backing, the focus has shifted towards building a utility-driven digital asset system.

Bangkok Post

Asean's next security challenge is cyber

It is not easy to imagine that our online activities carry intensifying and proliferating risks. Scam networks in mainland Southeast Asia that have preyed on many thousands of hapless citizens worldwide and thereby plagued the Asean region are just one of these risks. More potent are the cyber operations perpetrated…

Bangkok Post

Healthy diets need to be affordable

Hunger is falling across Southeast Asia. The region's next challenge is more demanding: ensuring that everyone can afford a healthy diet, not merely enough calories to survive.

Bangkok Post

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China approves first overseas TSR20 delivery warehouse in Thailand

SINGAPORE — China's Shanghai International Energy Exchange has approved its first overseas delivery warehouse for TSR20 rubber futures, extending its delivery network ‌into major rubber-producing areas in Southeast Asia.

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Asean's hidden human crisis

Southeast Asia is often celebrated as a region on the rise: expanding middle classes, booming digital economies, and deepening regional integration. In 2024, the region's 11 economies reached a combined GDP of nearly US$4 trillion (133.9 trillion baht), with growth projected to climb further in 2025. Foreign investment surged even…

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Southeast Asia is ‘hungry for innovation’ and eager to leapfrog, says SAP’s new APAC president Verena Siow

Southeast Asia, home to young, digitally-savvy populations and a rising middle class, offers fertile ground for leapfrogging.

Fortune

Kazakhstan eyes stronger trade ties with West Bengal

Kazakhstan's ambassador expressed keen interest in expanding business engagement with West Bengal. The nation views West Bengal as a crucial gateway to northeast India and Southeast Asia. Cooperation is sought across pharmaceuticals, mining, energy, and manufacturing sectors. A high-level business delegation will visit India in September for discussions. Kazakhstan offers…

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Pop Mart takes Labubu from toy shelves to bakery counters

Beijing's Pop Mart is opening its first international bakery in Singapore. The company is transforming popular characters into edible pastries and beverages. This move diversifies their business beyond toy manufacturing and sales. Pop Mart also plans future dessert shops across Southeast Asia. They aim to leverage intellectual property across various…

The Economic Times

AI is fuelling new wave of identity fraud

AI-driven identity fraud is emerging as a growing cyberthreat as attackers increasingly exploit synthetic identities, deepfakes and autonomous artificial intelligence agents to target digital systems, according to Ping Identity.

Bangkok Post

Scientists unlocked a 4,000-year-old secret inside ancient human teeth. A woman’s clean smile in Thailand revealed surprising chemical proof of early betel nut chew habits

New chemical analysis of ancient dental plaque from a burial site in Thailand revealed preserved traces of betel nut alkaloids. Remarkably, the woman’s teeth showed no visible stains. This discovery provides the earliest direct biomolecular proof of betel nut consumption in Southeast Asia, proving humans were getting high off the…

The Economic Times

In India, Iran war forces Diet Coke to roll out a bigger can, heftier price tag

Coca-Cola has raised Diet Coke prices in India by over 10% after the ongoing Middle East conflict disrupted supplies of aluminium cans. The company is importing costlier 330-ml cans from Southeast Asia as supplies of its usual 300-ml cans have been hit by shipping disruptions through the Strait of Hormuz.

The Economic Times

DES minister says building trust key to creating AI hub

Thailand is betting on trustworthy artificial intelligence (AI) to become an AI hub in Southeast Asia by placing governance, infrastructure and talent at the heart of its national strategy.

Bangkok Post

China’s durian imports from Thailand and Malaysia soar as glut pressures growers

HONG KONG — China's durian imports rose 47%, year on year, in the first half of 2026, with Thailand and Malaysia posting particularly strong gains, according to customs data, as Southeast Asian exporters offloaded a glut of the fruit that had sparked a price drop.

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Philippines is building 422 MW of solar farms above fish ponds, and the idea could change renewable energy forever

Vietnam's VinEnergo and Philippine developer SunAsia Energy have agreed to build 422 megawatts peak of solar power spread across three sites in the Philippines, using a design that lifts the panels on steel piles above active fish ponds rather than floating them directly on the water. The approach is intended…

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Times Life

How the Archerfish Spits Water at Insects With Ballistic Precision and Rarely Misses

A Fish That Solves Physics Without Knowing ItThe archerfish fires a jet of water at an insect sitting on a branch above the surface and hits it. Not sometimes. Routinely. From distances of up to three metres, with a brain that weighs less than a gram. The species most studied…

The Economic Times

ASEAN's top diplomats meet in shadow of US-Iran conflict

Southeast Asian ministers meet amid global and regional instability this week. Tensions between the United States and Iran are casting a shadow over discussions. Maritime disputes in the South China Sea also demand attention from diplomats. ASEAN's peace initiative for Myanmar continues to struggle for traction. U.S. officials reaffirm commitments…

Bangkok Post

Thai team touts AI hub ambitions during China visit

Thailand is stepping up efforts to establish itself as Southeast Asia's artificial intelligence (AI) hub after Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and Digital Economy and Society (DE) Minister Chaichanok Chidchob held high-level talks with China's Huawei Technologies on expanding cooperation in AI infrastructure, next-generation data centres and digital talent development.

Bangkok Post

Pumped storage can aid transition

When you flip a light switch or charge your phone, you're tapping into an intricate energy web that's quietly transforming across Southeast Asia. With electricity demand projected to more than triple by 2050, the Mekong region is standing at a crossroads: continue relying on carbon-heavy sources or leap towards a…

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ASEAN ministerial talks: Iran war, Myanmar crisis and South China Sea rifts under spotlight

Southeast Asian diplomats are meeting in Manila to discuss escalating Middle East conflicts. They will express alarm over renewed hostilities and urge a return to peace talks. Regional disputes, including Myanmar's civil war and South China Sea tensions, are also on the agenda. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will…

Times Life

The Atlas Moth Has No Mouth and Its Entire Adult Life Runs on One Tank of Fat

Born already running on emptyWhen the atlas moth breaks out of its cocoon, it has already eaten its last meal, and that meal happened weeks earlier, when it was still a caterpillar. The adult moth has no functional mouth. No digestive system. The structures that would form a feeding apparatus…

Times Life

The Sarus Crane Mates for Life: The Biology of Monogamy and the Reality of Grief

The tallest flying bird in the world, and what it chose to do with thatGrus antigone, the sarus crane, stands up to 1.8 metres tall, making it the tallest flying bird on the planet. It lives across the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and northern Australia, but its stronghold is the…

Bangkok Post

Kabaddi, padel among new sports added

A total of 43 sports will be contested at the 34th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games, which will be held in Malaysia from Sept 18-29 next year, after kabaddi, dance sport, teqball, padel, and ice hockey were added to the programme.

Bangkok Post

TrueMoney unveils new digital payment service

TrueMoney, Southeast Asia's leading fintech platform under Ascend Money, has rolled out Thailand's first inclusive "tap-to-pay" digital financial service.

Times Life

Why Thanjavur Is the One City in Tamil Nadu That Rewards Every Extra Day You Spend There

The temple is not the destination, it's the doorThe Brihadeeswarar stands so completely that most visitors photograph it and consider themselves done. It is, after all, a UNESCO World Heritage site. The vimana rises 66 metres, built without mortar, and the capstone alone weighs 80 tonnes, moved into place by…

Fortune

Southeast Asia ‘has not really moved up the value chain’ and risks missing the AI boom, says Standard Chartered’s chief ASEAN economist

“Every country wants to have the next Silicon Valley or be the next AI mega-producer, but getting there isn’t just a matter of snapping one's fingers."

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