Malaysia plans to introduce a dividend income tax due to rising spending, and Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has proposed raising the 2025 budget to US$98 billion, breaking previous records.

SK Group divested its loss making business and invested 80 trillion Korean won to develop AI. The company's executives pushed for internal restructuring, resulting in a 94% drop in profits.

Currently, Singapore's Sea Group is accelerating its application for a digital banking license in Thailand, following its entry into Singapore, Indonesia, and the Philippines, with the tech group also moving into the Malaysian market.

Tokyo Electron expects AI-related sales to grow by about 150% this fiscal year, reaching 690 billion yen. The company's CFO stated that there are no signs of weakening AI demand, as clients are placing orders "one after another."

越南本土科技巨头FPT即将涉猎半导体后端环节，负责芯片的封装和测试，计划到2030年扩招10,000人。

疫情时代过后，东南亚电商平台Shopee、Tokopedia、Lazada和TikTok纷纷提高商家佣金缴纳比例，以提升自身盈利能力。

BI announced an interest rate cut to promote economic growth, lowering the policy rate by 0.25% for the first time since 2021.

After its mobile business matured, Singtel turned to data center and IT businesses to seek new growth points, and its share price has hit a four-year high.

Japanese chip startup Rapidus is seeking to raise 100 billion yen from existing and new investors to finance its chip development work, and expects to achieve fully automated mass production of 2nm process chips by 2027.

Indonesia's GoTo will withdraw from the Vietnamese market, ending its competition with Grab and Shopee, and its travel and delivery services will focus on Indonesia and Singapore.

Malaysia’s auto sales are closing in on ASEAN leader Indonesia, with the gap between the two regional markets narrowing to 8,000 units in the second quarter.

Google is considering building a hyperscale data center in Vietnam。If achieved, this may be another major investment by Google in Southeast Asian countries after Malaysia。

Singtel and Hitachi of Japan have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on the development of next-generation data centres and GPU clouds in Japan and other parts of Asia Pacific to drive digital transformation for enterprises.

Vietnam’s mobile internet speed has increased by 40 percent in the past five months, marking significant achievements in the country’s digital infrastructure construction and telecommunications industry development.

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and local government units (LGUs) have jointly launched the PalengQR Ph Plus project to build a strong digital payment ecosystem and promote cashless transactions in the local market.

Vietnamese tech giant FPT Group to expand its Japanese business with $200 million to provide AI cloud computing services to local businesses。

Due to fierce competition in the industry, Tesla's competitiveness in the Southeast Asian market lags significantly behind that of Chinese manufacturers, so its plan to set up factories in Southeast Asia has been temporarily shelved.

Infineon is set to build its largest power chip factory in Kulim, Malaysia, enhancing Malaysia's position in the global semiconductor supply chain.

SK Hynix received a $450 million grant and a $500 million loan from the United States to build a chip packaging factory in Indiana for advanced packaging and AI product research and development.

Thailand's subsidies to Chinese EV manufacturers have severely impacted the automotive industry, with massive oversupply forcing the country's traditional firms to cut production and even close down.

Despite the promising earnings figures, SK Hynix shares still obtain the biggest drop in 20 months.

Indonesia's Kominfo has established a strategic partnership with APTDI to enhance the development of digital talent.

Recently, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim held a meeting with the Ericsson delegation to discuss issues related to the continued investment on 5G networks in Malaysia.

Japan's M&A market remains buoyant despite sluggish global deals, and a stable investment climate has attracted numerous international investors.