We’ve written about it time and time again. While it is undeniably exciting that the world is witnessing technological advancements at a rate never before seen in the past, there are real dangers associated to these developments as well.

Thailand’s Digital Economy and Society Minister, Buddhipongse Punnakanta revealed recently that about 500,000 items of suspected fake news were spread on social media over the past month alone. The biggest culprits? The country’s elderly.Buddhipongse said that it was the ministry’s anti-fake news centre that detected the approximately half a million items of possible fake news.

On 26 September, Indonesia was hit with yet another deadly earthquake, killing 37 people and damaging more than 6,000 houses. The country is one of the most disaster-prone in Southeast Asia and the world. Two weeks after the earthquake, however, news reports began emerging that Indonesians were still holed up in shelters. The reason?

Generation Z (Gen Z) is entering the workforce and business leaders must stay ahead to harness this new wave’s talents and appeal to their interests. According to McKinsey, Gen Z is the cohort born between 1995 and 2010, and are currently between the ages of nine and 24-years old.According to a 2018 article by Nielsen on ‘How to engage with Generation Z in Vietnam,’ by 2025, Gen Z will account for 25 percent of the labour workforce in Vietnam.

Vietnam’s growing reputation for cyber espionage has seen cybersecurity firms accuse the country’s state-sanctioned hackers of being responsible for attacks on everything from Toyota to the ASEAN Secretariat.While China, Russia, Iran and North Korea have long been the world’s most active state-sanctioned cyber espionage players, Vietnam is increasingly being implicated for similar activities.Vietnam was the fourth biggest source of credential stuffing last year – a sophisticated strike where

Generation Z (Gen Z) is the first cohort to have Internet technology readily available at a young age and they are inherently tech-savvy. Some of these digital natives are now self-made social media stars, online entrepreneurs and tech experts.

Singapore's new law to combat "fake news" came into effect Wednesday despite criticism from tech giants and activists, who labelled the tough rules a "chilling" attempt to stifle dissent.The law gives government ministers powers to order social media sites to put warnings next to posts authorities deem to be false, and in extreme cases get them taken down.Facebook, Twitter and Google - who have their Asian headquarters in Singapore - were given temporary exemptions fr

Thai police investigating a model's unexplained death were hunting for more suspects in a case that has captivated the country and sparked rare outrage over the treatment of women in a poorly understood sector of the entertainment industry.The body of model-for-hire Thitima Noraphanpiphat was found in the lobby of a Bangkok apartment block on 17 September, hours after she attended a party where she was paid to serve drinks.Police are working to press charges against anyone tied to the &q

The global beauty industry is estimated to be worth US$532 billion and Asia-Pacific is the largest and among the fastest-growing markets for it. According to a 2018 report by Euromonitor on ‘Trends in Asian beauty and personal care,’ the region represents 32 percent of the global market and is expected to grow another 6.7 percent over the next five years.In Southeast Asia, more shoppers are buying online which is reflected in a 2018 report by Google and Temasek.

Fake news is the biggest concern for millennials in ASEAN when consuming online content, and their reliance on social media is only making matters worse.International communications consultants Ruder Finn surveyed 1,648 people between the ages of 18 to 35 in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam recently, and the research offers valuable insight into consumer preferences across the region with regards to online content.An even mix of male and female participant