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June 2025: Singapore

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  • Singapore population (2023): 6 million
  • Singapore online population: 4.8M / 81.1%
  • Singapore’s median age: 39.4 years
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  • Singapore looks to push self-driving vehicles over the next five years, aiming to strengthen the public transport network in light of manpower issues / full item
  • Echelon Singapore 2025 from e27 takes place June 10–11 in Singapore – over 8K delegates and 150+ speakers / full item
  • Singapore Space & Technology Ltd relaunches as SST Think Tank, dedicated to mainstreaming space and commercialising space technologies across non-space sectors / full item
  • Visa enters talks with Grab, and China’s Ant International and Tencent, focusing on growth of AI-driven commerce / full item

“The Monetary Authority of Singapore has effectively banned most crypto firms from serving only foreign clients by requiring a license, which it says it will ‘generally not issue’.” / full item

  • Singapore-based DayOne Data Centers secures Sg$4.6BN in green financing to develop Johor data centres in Malaysia / full item
  • Thailand’s B Grimm Power and Singapore’s Digital Edge are to invest $1BN in a jointly-constructed 100-megawatt Thai data centre / full item
  • Malaysia’s government-run MY EG Services inks MoU with Singapore Trade Data Exchange Services with sights on digital cross-border trade between Malaysia and Singapore / full item
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