Aani’s 12.5 million users, sarie’s 784 million transactions and Buna’s 100 institutions: what the GCC built first, and why 2027 slipped By: Christian Brooks – AsiaPresswire – In Riyadh, two payment systems share a name that differs only in capitalisation, and the confusion they generate is not a translation problem. SARIE, in capitals, is the […]
Day: October 23, 2026
Taiwan’s NT$11.6bn SME Programme Reached 300,000 Firms. Read the Fine Print
A 2026 progress report credits 300,000 firms and NT$11.27bn of output; the 87% under 30 staff and a missing statute are the harder story By: Robert Sterling – AsiaPresswire – On 21 October the National Development Council met to review the Small and Micro Enterprise Diversification Programme, the four-year, NT$11.6 billion package that the Executive […]
Southeast Asia’s 38 GW of Solar Is 5% of Its Power. The Arithmetic Explains Why
Vietnam’s 19.3 GW, Indonesia’s 853 MW of rooftop and a $13bn-to-$30bn grid bill: what ASEAN’s 38 GW looks like divided by 680 million people By: James Vance – SeaPRwire – Thirty-eight gigawatts. That is the whole of Southeast Asia’s installed solar capacity at the end of 2025, according to the IEA and IRENA’s country tables, […]
Hong Kong’s Cantonese AI Model Took a Month. The Rest Is Taking Another Five Years
HKGAI V1, a DeepSeek 671B fine-tune, now carries HKChat’s 700,000 users and 100-plus government pilots; the 2026 test is workflow, not weights By: Robert Sterling – SeaPRwire – In November 1998 the Hong Kong government published a document called Digital 21, a strategy for making the territory a leading digital city. Four months later the […]
Your Lab’s Most Expensive Failure Won’t Be a Bad Experiment. It’ll Be a Silent Freezer.
By: TechVanguard – SeaPRwire – A minus-80 freezer does not fail loudly. It drifts. A door seal weakens. A compressor cycles longer. Nobody notices because nobody is standing there at 3 a.m. By the time someone does, the samples are gone. That is the whole reason lab monitoring exists, and it is also the reason […]
NFT Wallets Are Not Wallets: The Unsexy Engineering That Decides Who Owns the Internet’s Digital Stuff
By: Alex Mercer – SeaPRwire – Most NFT wallets are broken in a way their users never see. Not hacked. Not drained. Just quietly incomplete. A wallet that shows a JPEG and a token ID is a gallery, not custody infrastructure. The hard part was never display. It was metadata, standards, and the ugly business […]