Asia’s tech news #104: Indonesian e-scooters, Alibaba in Thailand, Google in India…

WK Wright
4 min readNov 10, 2021

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Alibaba Cloud to launch first Thailand data centre in 2022, in competition with Tencent and Huaweiwww.bangkokpost.com

Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing service arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, plans to launch its first data centre in Thailand next year to capture surging demand for cloud usage in the…

Australia: The Sydney Dialogue is 17–19 Nov, summit for emerging, critical and cyber technologies featuring…tsd.aspi.org.au

Currently, debates are taking place in silos — for example, on artificial intelligence, quantum computing, the use of surveillance technologies, supply chain resilience, disinformation and…

Taiwan’s Gogoro joins Indonesia’s Gojek for pilot, aiming to add 5K e-scooters, 100s of battery stationswww.taiwannews.com.tw

The test will then scale up to 5,000 electric scooters and additional battery swap stations, according to Electrek. Gogoro is interested in Gojek’s many motorcycle delivery drivers, nearly all of whom…

China: Xiaomi smartphone giant to open 20,000 new offline shops across the country over 3 yearstechnode.com

Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi plans to open 20,000 more offline shops throughout China in the next three years, expanding its presence in lower-tier cities and towns, according to Lu Weibin, Xiaomi…

Malaysia: MoneyMatch, working in digitally-driven cross-border trade payment, and remittanceswww.digitalnewsasia.com

As of mid June 2020, MoneyMatch had executed over US$240 million (RM1 billion) in cross-border trade payments and individual remittances.

Philippine Startup Week 2021: November 15–19
Philippine Startup Week 2021: November 15–19

South Korea’s ENPlus to invest $98M in manufacturing facilities for EVs in the Philippineswww.digitimes.com

South Korea-based ENPlus plans to invest PHP5 billion (US$98.86 million) in building manufacturing facilities for electric vehicles (EV) in the Philippines, according to the Philippines Economic Zone…

China: Online brokerage firms operating across borders likely next targets in tech crackdownglobalnewsandentertainment.com

China’s crackdown on the tech trade has reached the fast-growing on-line securities sector, with shares in Futu Holdings and Up Fintech Holding each struggling a serious blow within…

12 startups selected for Imagine H2O Asia’s 3rd cohort, working on water solutions around access & equitywww.imagineh2o.org

From a global field of over 100 startups, the 12 startups selected for Imagine H2O Asia’s third cohort represent innovative soultions to reuse and recycle more, waste less, mitigate pollution and boost…

India: Google launches MeitY Startup Hub with Ministry of Electronics & Info Tech to provide startups with…ow.ly

As part of the initiative, Google has launched a programme called the Appscale Academy, which will provide training to local startups in the early and mid-stages to build and scale apps for gaming, healthcare, fintech, edtech and social impact…

ICYMI: Tarantino to offer 7 uncut scenes from Pulp Fiction as NFTs for auction on OpenSeawww.cnbc.com
The collectibles also include original handwritten scripts from the film and exclusive audio commentary from Tarantino himself.

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WK Wright
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