Thai population (2023): 71.8 million
Thai online population: 54M / 75.5%
Thailand’s median age: 41.5 years
Invested: Australia’s Southeast Asia Strategy Economic Strategy to 2040
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‣ Asia technology newsletters in February
‣ Indo-Pacific Insight – geopolitics, daily
‣ Critical technologies report – February 2025
- Thailand: Government is to pilot issuance of tokenised government bonds worth $148M, tho details are yet to be finalized / full item
- Thailand: SiamAI Cloud infra provider to invest $4BN in infrastructure expansion, building the country’s largest data center, which it then plans to double in capacity / full item
- Thailand: A brief overview of the Ministry of Finance’s considerations around amending cash-out options for the digital wallet scheme / full item
- Thailand: A2D Ventures VC and Urban Office Thailand coworking space firm partner to launch Venture Spark accelerator / full item
- Thailand: Securities and Exchange Commission is to launch debt instrument trading using distributed ledger tech, looking to boost securities firms’ participation in digital token trading / full item
- Thailand: Government unveils extensive plan to reform transport infrastructure in bid to position as a pivotal logistics hub with a series of mega projects spanning land, sea, and air transportation / full item
- Thailand: National Security Council meeting resolves to cut electricity to Myanmar border areas in bid to curb transnational crime and call-centre scams / full item
- Thailand: TikTok is to invest $3.8BN in a Thailand-based data hosting project / full item
- Thailand: An overview of the billions being invested in Thailand-based data centers by tech majors including TikTok, Microsoft, Amazon and Google / full item
- Philippines’ sovereign wealth fund, Maharlika Investment Corp’n, and Thai conglomerate, Charoen Pokphand Group, to launch $1BN PE fund for agri-food, digital, and green energy / full item
Nearly 2,000 Indians are at present involved in cyber scam operations in Myawaddy…near the Myanmar-Thailand border… Many were reportedly duped by fake job offers… / full item
Critical tech news: February 2025
- South Korea’s FuriosaAI chips firm is reportedly in talks with Meta as the social media giant looks to develop AI infrastructure…
- ‘Megatrending 2025’ from The Pictet Group, an examination of the component parts of 7 key large trends…
- China Nat’l Space Administration and Pakistan’s Space & Upper Atmosphere Research Commission ink MoU for Pakistan’s first moon rover to fly on China’s Chang’e-8 mission in 2028…
‣ Critical technologies in the news: Feb 2025 >
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