The Southeast Asian Journal

Vietnam has a reactor agreement, Singapore an SMR MoU, Indonesia units in its RUPTL — Malaysia's April statement joins the same regional conversation.

BNM's cybersecurity enforcement actions signal that compliance gaps in incident response carry direct financial and reputational consequences for Malaysian financial institutions.

BankX Bank's registered capital will scale from THB 10,000 to THB 5 billion before the licence application, marking the formal start of Thailand's digital bank build.

The Prabowo-Lee summit in Seoul formalized a Special Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, anchored by ten MoUs and a Danantara-Korea Eximbank financing agreement.

Base fares start at approximately USD 55 on TransNusa's new Jakarta to Lombok route, giving domestic and inbound travelers direct access to the Gili Islands and Mount Rinjani.

Global payments firms are increasingly buying wallet infrastructure rather than partnering with it, a trend this acquisition accelerates in Southeast Asia.

Bank Negara Malaysia's approval reflects continued regulatory openness to globally licensed non-bank fintech platforms operating at scale.

His message focused on hope and healing as conflicts continue to affect many regions.

Over 2,100 disruption reports were filed within 30 minutes as DBS customers lost access during Singapore's busiest lunch hour.

While Manila coordinates emergency oil procurement, communities at the archipelago's edge are running out of fuel entirely. Bongao's crisis shows that national averages mask severe geographic disparities in Philippine fuel security.