Japan's upcoming foreign worker system is drawing attention to the shortage of Japanese language teachers needed to support workers entering the country.
Hyperscale cloud competition in Southeast Asia is accelerating, with Amazon, Microsoft, and Google all making major regional commitments. For fintech operators, the result is more capacity, lower latency, and better AI tooling across the ASEAN corridor.
A bilateral MoU between BNM and BI signals that Malaysia and Indonesia intend to move faster on shared digitalisation priorities than multilateral forums allow.