Stilt houses in villages north of Bangkok are no longer high enough to stay dry as Thai authorities deliberately flood riverside communities to spare the capital. Inside the home of Kamonchanok Sathaphonamonwut, raised more than three metres (10 feet) above the ground in Ayutthaya province, her family of three sleeps on makeshift platforms and cannot use the waterlogged toilet. Her village has been flooded six years in a row, pushing some to move away, while others have raised their houses...

Singapore’s war on scams has mostly been fought far from the victim: in police operations centres, bank back offices and, more recently, in rulebooks telling platforms what they must block. Now the city-state wants part of that fight to happen inside the phone itself. Google on Wednesday announced two initiatives with the Singapore Government, unveiled […] The post Singapore wants Google’s AI to catch scammers before victims hit send appeared first on e27.

Malaysians aged 30 and below bought some 5.4 billion ringgit (US$1.32 billion) worth of goods and services on short-term credit in the first half of this year, the country’s Finance Ministry has revealed. The ministry said it had recorded 65.9 million “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) purchases among younger consumers in the first six months of 2026 – equivalent to more than one in three, or 37.9 per cent, of total purchases nationwide. As of June 30, the outstanding BNPL financing balance among this...

Malaysians aged 30 and below bought some 5.4 billion ringgit (US$1.32 billion) worth of goods and services on short-term credit in the first half of this year, the country’s Finance Ministry has revealed. The ministry said it had recorded 65.9 million “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) purchases among younger consumers in the first six months of 2026 – equivalent to more than one in three, or 37.9 per cent, of total purchases nationwide. As of June 30, the outstanding BNPL financing balance among this...

When the Ministry of Trade and Industry raised Singapore’s 2026 growth forecast in August, most of the founders I talk to read it the way the headlines invited them to, as good news for everyone. The revision was large. MTI moved its forecast from 2.0 to 4.0 per cent up to 4.5 to 5.5 per […] The post Read the sectors, not the headline: What Singapore’s growth upgrade tells SEA founders appeared first on e27.

Picture a Singapore account manager answering a Slack message at 10.47 pm, ninety seconds after it lands. Her manager did not ask for a reply tonight. Nobody will remember tomorrow that she gave one. And if new survey data is to be believed, it will do almost nothing for her career. She would not be […] The post 85 per cent of Singapore employers expect staff to be always on. Half offer no help appeared first on e27.

Bitcoin rose 0.89 per cent to US$83,264.98 over the past 24 hours, a gain that looks modest when set beside the 1.12 per cent increase in the total crypto market cap. This relationship matters. The largest digital asset did not climb because of a regulatory breakthrough or a huge institutional purchase. It climbed because capital […] The post The US$84,245 resistance is hours away from being tested. Will buyers show up or fold? appeared first on e27.

Motorists have been left queuing for hours at petrol stations across Indonesia’s resort island of Bali in recent days amid reports of a crippling fuel shortage. Long queues have been spotted all around the island, including in the capital Denpasar, Badung and Tabana, according to the Bali Post. On Tuesday, Bali Governor I Wayan Koster stressed that there was enough fuel to go around, suggesting that panic buying might have caused the shortages at the pumps. “People need to be patient because the...