EXCLUSIVE: Howie Lau, NCS, Managing Partner, Corporate Development and Partnerships, on Driving Growth and Transformation Regionally and Globally
Howie provides insights on Singapore as a global technology hub and how to build a digital ecosystem and boost digital capabilities to fuel growth across the region.
IMO-Singapore Project to Implement Digital Ship Clearance System in the Port of Lobito, Angola
IMO and Singapore have selected the Port of Lobito in Angola for the SWiFT pilot project to establish an efficient digitalised system for the electronic exchange of information.
New Zealand to Address Global Climate Challenges with Tech
The country has established a new organisation to encourage collaboration among Climate Councils along with technological developments that will help in tackling climate change.
HKSTP and CUHK to Nurture Tech Talent
The strategic MoU aims to develop a series of programmes to incubate and accelerate the development of innovation and technology talent and high-potential tech start-ups.
AI Sheds Light on How Brain Processes Language
MIT neuroscientists find the internal workings of next-word prediction models resemble those of language-processing centres in the brain.
The Philippines to Leverage Digital Technologies for Economic Recovery
The nation is looking to overcome the impact of the pandemic, recover from the crisis and achieve its objective of being a middle-class country through accelerating adoption of modern digital technology.
NSW Farmers to Get Cutting-Edge Tech to Fight Weeds
The government has set aside $24.2 million for cutting edge technologies to help the region’s farmers manage weeds that threaten agricultural production, modernising the state’s biosecurity systems.
China Implements First Law on Personal Data Protection
The new Personal Information Protection Law seeks to improve data protection on the collection, storage, use, processing, transmission, provision, disclosure and deletion of personal information.
Philippine Digital Payments Tap National QR Code for Merchant Payments
Digital payments are deploying the QR Ph P2M systems for most of the services, including both online and on-ground touchpoints for all types of merchants, to speed up the rollout implemented by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas.
Indonesia to Deploy Electric Buses by 2030 to Reach Net-Zero Emission Target
The Indonesian government has devised methods to solve topics on climate change and to achieve the net-zero emission objective including converting all public transportation buses to electricity.
