The Thailand tech snapshot for October 2024 captures items across online gaming and e-sports, cross-border payments, a space technologies partnership with China, cyber-scams training, and more.
Thailand market reference
- Thai population (2023): 71.8 million
- Thailand online population: 54M / 75.5%
- Thailand’s median age: 41.5 years
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- Thailand sets sights on esports, gaming and animation sectors to boost tech goals, with infrastructure including Digital Edutainment Complex in Thailand Digital Valley / full item
- Thailand: Prime Minister invites China to build a satellite launch base for providing 6G technology in Thailand / full item
- Thailand: Siam Commercial Bank & SCB 10X investment arm reportedly launch nation’s first cross-border payments-and-remittances service using stablecoins and public blockchain / full item
- Thailand: Ethereum Foundation’s Devcon developer and community conference is set for Bangkok, November 12-15 / full item
GITEX Asia Tech Conference & Expo: April 2025 in Singapore
- Thailand: The Australia Room opens its doors, a forensics training hub for police forces from Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam, focusing on cyber-scams and crime networks / full item
- An overview of DEX Connex Thailand 2024, part of the Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation’s Digital Export facilitation programme for startups and digital businesses / full item
- 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 / full item
- Thailand’s Siam Commercial Bank and Thunes global payments company partner for international cross-border payments and remittances / full item
Amnesty International: Human rights due diligence in the EV industry
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