The Latest Breaking News from SouthEast Asia

President Donald Trump’s pick to be the United States’ next ambassador to Malaysia has raised more than a few eyebrows in the Southeast Asian nation. Right-wing influencer Nick Adams, a naturalized American born and raised in Australia, is, by his own account, a weightlifting, Bible-reading, “wildly successful” and “extremely charismatic”…

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is facing pressure from a U.S. senator to prevent the use of Starlink satellite internet service by criminal organizations in Southeast Asia.

“If I can be replaced by AI, so can everything else!”

Granite Asia’s Jixun Foo wants to see “the confluence of talent and market adoption” before he starts investing in Southeast Asian AI.

AI that’s been trained on English, and not one of Southeast Asia’s hundreds of different languages, “will perhaps not meet the requirements of Singapore."

Poorest nations set to lose out as Western countries redirect development funding to defence and domestic spending.

China is set to expand its influence over Southeast Asia's development as the Trump administration and other Western donors slash aid, a study by an Australian think tank said Sunday.

Shares in Nationgate, the fastest-growing company on Fortune's Southeast Asia 500, are down over 10% since Tuesday.

WeRide Inc. (NASDAQ:WRD) announced on Thursday the launch of fully driverless Robobus operations at Resorts World Sentosa, Singapore (RWS), the first autonomous vehicle in Southeast Asia to operate without a safety officer on board.