in October 2024
October 2024 tech news across Asia and the Indo-Pacific touched on successes and challenges, implementations and developments across a huge range of established, emerging and critical technologies.
Each country link below leads to a full-month collection of that country’s technology news headlines from the month of October 2024, with each headline item linked directly to the source, whether an Asian tech news article, or a download, report, commentary or video. In October, Asia’s tech news touched on items spanning cryptocurrency taxation in South Korea, Taiwan’s willingness to go nuclear for energy supplies, the growth of cross-border payments using QR code systems across Asia and the Indo-Pacific, and many more.
Also: Critical technologies in October 2024 >
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Australian tech news: October 2024
- Australia-linked Ioneer gains US federal permit for Rhyolite Ridge lithium-boron mine, potentially supplying lithium for 370K EVs a year and quadrupling US production…
Cambodia snapshot: October 2024
- Cambodia: “Digital technology can boost agricultural productivity and alleviate poverty, but Internet connectivity in rural areas hinders enterprise…”
China’s tech headlines: October 2024
- China: BeiDou sat-nav system gained $1.78BN in commitments for new projects, deepening competition with GPS and targeting integration with vehicles, agriculture and more…
Multilateralism Index 2024
HONG KONG tech news: October 2024
- Hong Kong: Civil service is now banned from using messaging and cloud services including WhatsApp, WeChat and Google Drive on work computers due to ‘severe internet safety risks’…
India’s tech Headlines: October 2024
- India looks to auction, not allocate, satellite spectrum for sat-delivered internet, raising possibility of Starlink service alongside home-grown Bharti Airtel and Reliance Industries…
Indonesia snapshot: October 2024
- Indonesia: Government orders Apple and Google to remove Temu e-commerce app from app stores, alongside plans for similar block on Shein, citing MSME protections…
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Japan’s tech news: October 2024
- Japan: Researchers complete early test, capturing solar energy in space for conversion and transmission to ground stations on Earth…
South Korean tech: October 2024
- South Korea: North Gyeongsang Province seized $890K in crypto assets from residents who failed to pay taxes, with 22 cities and counties now preparing for further collections…
Malaysian tech news: October 2024
- Malaysia: Sarawak unveils ambitious plans for electricity supply, including submarine cable to supply Singapore and peninsular Malaysia, and potentially wider ASEAN states…
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New Zealand tech: October 2024
- New Zealand: Grandmother scammed out of $224K using an AI-generated deepfake ad on Facebook, featuring a faked NZ Prime Minister encouraging crypto investment…
Philippines tech: October 2024
- Philippine Space Agency, the European Union, and PH Dept of Science & Tech launch CopPhil Centre, infrastructure program and satellite data mirror site…
The Philippines: October 2024 >
Singapore tech news: October 2024
- Singapore: Gov’t preps Shared Responsibility Framework for December roll-out, looking to strengthen accountability of financial institutions and telcos for phishing scam losses…
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Taiwan’s tech news: October 2024
- “Taiwan is ‘very open’ to using new nuclear technology to meet surging demand from chipmakers devouring electricity in the AI boom, according to Premier Cho Jung-tai…”…
Thailand’s TEch News: October 2024
- Thailand: Siam Commercial Bank & SCB 10X investment arm reportedly launch nation’s first cross-border payments-and-remittances service using stablecoins and public blockchain…
Vietnam snapshot: October 2024
- Vietnam’s National Payment Corporation inks MOU with China’s UnionPay International for cross-border QR code interoperability, allowing QR payments between the two networks…
Indo-Pacific Insight: Critical tech, space, risk, geopolitics, supply chains…
critical Technologies: October 2024
- China: A broad overview of the many steps taken to implement a national blockchain infrastructure
- India joins Minerals Security Partnership, US-led coalition of 14 countries and the European Union aiming to expand, diversify and stabilize critical minerals supply chains
- Thailand: Google to invest $1BN in building data centre and cloud computing region to meet SEA demand for AI, creating 14K jobs annually until 2029
- Australia: Q-CTRL quantum infrastructure software firm secured an additional $59M, with focus on ‘middleware’ for hardware providers…
Critical technologies, globally: October 2024 >
Critical technologies in the news, globally, across Q3 2024
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