Asian Morning Standard

Section 123 Agreements between the U.S. and the Philippines, Singapore, and Malaysia create civil nuclear supply chain access unavailable to countries without them. That is a commercial advantage in vendor selection.

Stablecoins now cover the full payroll chain at Deel, a signal of how cross-border workforce payments infrastructure is maturing in 2026.

Deepfake fraud losses exceeded USD 410 million globally in just the first half of 2025, with APAC among the most exposed markets.

Upstairs in Ho Chi Minh City received its first MICHELIN Star just 18 months after opening, with inspectors recognizing its contemporary reinterpretation of traditional Vietnamese cuisine.

Envision has deployed its AI Future Energy System in Cambodia as a BESS grid management tool. Laos is the next application of that model at larger scale.

HiTHIUM's SNEC 2026 launch sent a signal: Southeast Asia's storage market is the next front for Chinese battery manufacturers.

Flow is built to be compatible with the Open Transaction Layer, the industry standard Fireblocks co-founded with Robinhood, MetaMask, and Checkout.com on May 28.

Cross-border payments in Southeast Asia are complex; Airwallex and Leapfin now address reconciliation within the same platform.

MISC's 20-year FSRU contract for RGT-3 marks its first formal entry into the floating regasification segment.

A 2026 industry survey found 56.8 percent of Indonesian energy professionals see renewable development as stagnant despite high strategic importance scores. The gap between policy ambition and execution is still the core challenge.