Category: SeaPRwire

A line-by-line audit of Thai central bank and NITMX PromptPay statistics: two calibers, five figures that do not reconcile, and the one that does. By: Logan Pierce – SeaPRwire – In May 2026, Thailand’s PromptPay handled 2.38 billion transactions worth

By: TechVanguard – SeaPRwire – Accessory makers have always been second-class citizens in the Apple economy. They chase the new phone. They copy the mounting system. They race to the bottom on price. ESR just made a different bet. The

By: Alex Mercer – SeaPRwire – Reuven Cohen just did the one thing foundation model labs cannot answer. He made the model irrelevant to the bill. MetaHarness shipped this week alongside GitHub Universe 2026. It is an open-source factory for

By: James Vance – SeaPRwire – Supply chain teams sit on mountains of data yet still freeze when the next disruption hits. The tools promise insight. The planners still make the final call by gut and spreadsheet. That gap is

By: TechVanguard – SeaPRwire – Contractors still key engine hours and odometer readings into their systems by hand. The work is slow. It is easy to get wrong. That friction sits at the center of every mixed fleet operation that

Platform GMV of $157.6 billion, total trade of $185.5 billion, an e-Conomy estimate of $191 billion: one year, three denominators, no reconciliation By: Logan Pierce – SeaPRwire – The number travels well. Southeast Asian ecommerce was worth $185.5 billion in

17.5 against 40.7 Start with the ratio, because it is the one that does not get quoted. – AsiaPresswire – In the first quarter of 2025, non-oil and gas manufacturing accounted for 17.50% of Indonesian GDP — Rp 991,785.2 billion

Muhaisnah 4, before the shift – AsiaPresswire – The cabinet is about waist height, beige, and mostly unremarkable until you look at the plate. Then it says 360 kW, and it stops being furniture. Three hundred and sixty kilowatts is

How the story usually gets told – SeaPRwire – The version that circulates goes like this. Malaysia decided that big social platforms had been operating in the country without permission for long enough, set a threshold of eight million local

A hydrant in Chengdu has a SIM card – SeaPRwire – Somewhere in Chengdu there is a fire hydrant that reports for duty every morning. It sends a short packet through a carrier’s network, several times a day, saying in

AsiaPresswire – The numbers tell one story and the streets tell another. In the first full year after the borders reopened, Thailand welcomed visitors in the tens of millions again, a figure that travels well in headlines and government press

AsiaPresswire – A single number explains why the world keeps mistaking Saudi Arabia’s construction market for a certainty. In one recent year the kingdom awarded construction and infrastructure contracts worth well over a hundred billion dollars, a sum larger than

SeaPRwire – A sourcing director I worked with spent the first half of last year moving part of his assembly line out of southern China. The arithmetic was convincing. Vietnamese factory wages sat around a third of what he paid

SeaPRwire – A founder I know sat in a co-working space near Tanjong Pagar last spring, staring at a spreadsheet that would decide where his company’s regional headquarters would live for the next five years. His startup sold inventory software

Indonesia – October 21, 2026 – (AsiaPressWire) – Indonesia banned the export of unprocessed nickel ore in January 2020, pulling forward a deadline that had originally been set for 2022. Five years on, it is the most consequential industrial policy experiment

Hong Kong – October 21, 2026 – (AsiaPressWire) – In May 2026, a Boston Consulting Group report carried a line that the city’s financial establishment had been working toward for three years: Hong Kong had overtaken Switzerland as the world’s largest

Logan Pierce – AsiaPresswire – In May 2026, a Boston Consulting Group report carried a line that the city’s financial establishment had been working toward for three years: Hong Kong had overtaken Switzerland as the world’s largest cross-border wealth management

Robert Sterling – AsiaPresswire – Indonesia banned the export of unprocessed nickel ore in January 2020, pulling forward a deadline that had originally been set for 2022. Five years on, it is the most consequential industrial policy experiment in Southeast