The Humanitarian Costs of Starlink’s Policy
Su Mon Thazin Aung
Starlink is seeking to curtail access to one of its Internet services. This would affect many conflict-afflicted regions in Myanmar

Su Mon Thazin Aung
Starlink is seeking to curtail access to one of its Internet services. This would affect many conflict-afflicted regions in Myanmar
Brandon Tan Jun Wen
The adoption of scambaiting Large Language Models (LLM) could give regional governments a decisive edge against scam syndicates, but such Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven anti-scam measures come with their own challenges.
Kristina Fong Siew Leng
Over the past couple of years, countries in Southeast Asia, as well as ASEAN as a whole, have made great efforts to formulate guardrails around Artificial Intelligence (AI) design, deployment and usage. This Long Read examines the state of play thus far.
Marco Kamiya
China and the US are building new industrial structures known as techno-electric stacks. Southeast Asian economies need to think less about choosing sides and more about shaping and owning a piece of these stacks.
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Sara Loo
Despite Johor’s data centre boom, there are concerns about the number and quality of jobs they can generate. But demand is rising for skilled workers in ancillary industries, notably construction.
George Tan|Maria Monica Wihardja
A new non-binding framework for relevant ASEAN member states to ramp up their semiconductor industries and supply chains has the potential to provide some relief against a darkening geopolitical outlook.
John Lee
China is best positioned to achieve mass implementation of ‘embodied AI’, i.e., the integration of AI with robotics. This provides significant opportunities for Southeast Asian economies keen to develop real-world applications of AI. However, how far countries will go in adopting China’s AI technology stack will be shaped by US-China strategic competition, which is increasingly being played out in the AI and robotics sectors.
David Lam
Crypto transactions are not definitively safer than their traditional forebears. In fact, they are often the preferred route for people who want to transact in the shadows.
Beltsazar Krisetya
Despite growing calls for collaboration, the technological core of content moderation remains largely a black box. While multi-stakeholder partnerships are increasingly invoked in regional policy discourse, external oversight or shared governance of the underlying moderation technologies remain limited.
Xu Jingzhi
To move up the technology value chain, Vietnam needs to think beyond foreign direct investment and focus on upgrading domestic capacity.