A care scandal has erupted in Thailand after a nursing home was exposed for confining old and sick residents in beds covered by iron cages with barely a foot of space above their heads. Images of bedridden patients at the Sothornchai Nursing Home in Kanchanaburi, western Thailand, have shocked Thais since they were shared earlier this week on the television current affairs show Hone Krasae. Thailand is projected to be a super-ageing society in the coming years, with authorities warning of a care...

A legal challenge to the vice-presidency of Indonesia’s Gibran Rakabuming Raka could haunt his political future even though he has survived damning court findings on his educational qualifications. The Constitutional Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition to unseat the son of former president Joko Widodo, ruling that the plaintiffs lacked legal standing. But it also found no convincing evidence that Gibran’s overseas education met the minimum high-school qualification required for presidential...

Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on Thursday said Malaysia would do “whatever is possible” to strengthen cooperation with Myanmar and fully reintegrate the diplomatically isolated nation into the Asean fold. The pledge came during an unusually high-profile official welcome for Myanmar President Min Aung Hlaing, despite Malaysia’s position that such engagement does not amount to recognition of his government. Min Aung Hlaing inspected a guard of honour in Putrajaya before holding private talks with...

Singapore’s financial regulator has set out how banks, insurers, payment companies and other financial institutions should govern artificial intelligence, as AI moves from back-office experiments into systems that can influence customer outcomes, risk decisions and even execution. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has issued its Guidelines on Artificial Intelligence Risk Management, a principles-based framework […] The post MAS gives Singapore’s financial firms one year to prepare for AI risk rules appeared first on e27.

For many companies, the harder part of artificial intelligence is no longer running a pilot. It is turning that pilot into something reliable enough to sit inside daily operations. That gap is what Singtel’s RE:AI and the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) are trying to address through a new partnership with the SIT x NVIDIA […] The post Singtel’s RE:AI partners SIT-NVIDIA centre to tackle enterprise AI deployment gap appeared first on e27.

The crypto market woke up to a familiar tension this morning. Bitcoin trades at US$83,079.42, down 1.02 per cent over the past 24 hours, while trading volume has surged by roughly 40 per cent. That combination of falling price and rising volume rarely signals calm. It tells a story of forced exits, not quiet repositioning. […] The post Bitcoin’s US$83,000 test: Can institutional demand hold the line? appeared first on e27.

A newly opened China-backed air force training centre in Laos could unsettle Vietnam, even as it aims to modernise Vientiane’s military and balance defence ties among Beijing, Moscow and Hanoi, observers say. China’s National Defence Ministry said last Tuesday that the joint support and training facility at Ban Keun Airport in the Laotian capital would strengthen the expertise of local air force pilots and was “not directed against any third party”. “The establishment and operation of the two...

The client accepted the final video. We still decided not to work with the production team again. Before the project, the team had looked like a strong choice. They sent us more than a dozen polished samples, with good image quality and a convincing visual standard. We hired them to produce a five-minute promotional film […] The post Creative supply is large, dependable production capacity is not appeared first on e27.

Endeavor Catalyst has closed an oversubscribed US$320 million fifth fund, lifting its assets under management to more than US$850 million and giving the global investment platform fresh capital at a time when startup markets outside Silicon Valley are beginning to stir again. The fund, announced from Singapore, comes after a difficult few years for venture-backed […] The post Endeavor Catalyst raises US$320M to back the next wave of ‘Elsewhere’ startups appeared first on e27.

Healthcare digitisation usually becomes visible through the applications people interact with: patient portals, telehealth platforms, digital prescriptions and, increasingly, digital health wallets. But the interface is rarely the difficult part. In March 2026, the World Health Organisation (WHO), the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research and Temasek Foundation launched a three-year initiative to help […] The post Southeast Asia is digitising health records. Making them portable is the harder problem appeared first on e27.