Singapore has just announced the completion of tunneling works for the second phase of its SGD 10 billion (USD 7.3 billion) Deep Tunnel Sewerage System (DTSS) project, which will enhance the city-state’s water recycling capacity. DTSS was designed in the 1990s as...
Swedish clothing company H&M has announced that it will offer a selection of items for home furnishings at its flagship Orchard Road store in Singapore. Products will include bed linen, dinnerware, textiles and furniture. H&M Home, the home decor arm of the...
Singaporean telecommunications conglomerate Singtel has commenced the construction of DC Tuas, Singapore’s highest power density, hyper-connected green data center. When operational in 2025, DC Tuas will offer 58 megawatts (MW) of IT load capacity to support the...
Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), Dell Technologies Inc., and Equinix, Inc. have joined forces to drive innovation and green practices in the country. The three organizations will work together to reshape the way digital infrastructure is...
Sembcorp Utilities Pte Ltd (SCU), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sembcorp Industries Ltd, and Petrovietnam Technical Services Corporation (PTSC), a member of Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (Petrovietnam), are jointly exploring the development of offshore wind farms in...
Singapore’s Prime Minister recently highlighted how both the city-state and Vietnam share a stake in the stability and prosperity of the Southeast Asia region. During a visit of Singapore’s Prime Minister to Vietnam, where he met his counterpart, the two leaders...
The Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) has just announced the signing of a three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with US specialist Dragos, Inc., covering information-sharing, capacity and capability-building for Operational Technology (OT) cybersecurity...
During an official state visit of Singapore’s Prime Minister to Vietnam, Petrovietnam Technical Services Corporation (PTSC) and Singapore’s Sembcorp Utilities Pte Ltd were granted a survey license to execute a project to develop offshore renewable energy in Vietnam...
In August 2023, Vietnam and Singapore agreed to broaden the scope of their bilateral economic cooperation and inked agreements in several sectors, including the green economy and innovation. Accordingly, Vietnam’s Minister of Planning and Investment had letters...
Singaporean steel company Meranti Steel has taken a significant step towards new green steel production in Thailand as it establishes a strategic cooperation with Bangkok Industrial Gas (BIG), a Thai gas and climate technology company. The two parties have just agreed...
Brazil’s postal service Correios announced in late July 2023 that it had signed an agreement with shopping app Shopee to boost exports of Brazilian products to Southeast Asian markets. Owned by Southeast Asian tech giant Sea, Shopee signed a memorandum of...
In July 2023, Singapore-based semiconductor start-up Silicon Box unveiled its USD 2 billion factory in Tampines, designed to manufacture semiconductor chiplet interconnections that can be applied in areas such as artificial intelligence, electric vehicles and...
