Author: viking

Jakkrit Matha – who only turned 16 in May – has battled to overcome the hardships of life. His mother was only recently released from prison after serving time on drug charges. His 70-year-old grandfather still drives a bus to earn a living, while his grandmother looks after his two siblings in Phetchabun province, 300km from Bangkok, after his father left the family.Today, Jakkrit fights to support himself and his grandparents financially, quite literally – through Muay Thai, or Thai kick…

A top South Korean official on Friday said there was little security risk in using equipment by Chinese telecoms giant Huawei for his country’s 5G network, amid efforts by the United States to persuade allies to avoid the company.The presidential Blue House official said South Korea used Huawei hardware for less than 10 per cent of its fifth-generation cellular infrastructure, with the rest provided by Samsung and other firms.“[Huawei equipment] is clearly isolated from our defence and security…

The Singapore High Court has said that ‘fitness for purpose’ was not an implied term in a data centre construction contract.

ANALYSIS: Financial institutions have an opportunity to build on the trust customers have in their handling of sensitive data to develop market-leading digital identity (ID) solutions that can be used to access other on- and off-line services.

Malaysia’s leader Mahathir Mohamad might be in his 90s but he does not pull his punches – even when global superpowers are in the ring.That much was clear at the 25th International Conference on the Future of Asia hosted by Nikkei, when the prime minister criticised the trade dispute between the US and China, and warned it could lead to “greater destruction”.The nonagenarian openly supported Huawei and called out the United States on its playground-style tactics in controlling the tech industry…

Businesses will be more likely to avoid heavy fines if they own up to data breaches they experience, Singapore’s data regulator has said.

Are robot baristas the future of South Korea’s vibrant coffee culture? Dal.komm Coffee thinks so. The company now has 45 robot-equipped outlets in shopping malls, company cafeterias, schools and an airport.Coffee is just one of many industries that could be transformed by automated services in the tech-forward nation, a notion both exciting and worrisome as jobs become scarcer.South Korean industries, including restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, banks and manufacturers, are relying…

Many Thais laughed when leader Prayuth Chan-ocha told them to pick up George Orwell’s 1945 satire of the Stalin regime Animal Farm for an entertaining read a week before the parliament voted to confirm his second term in the job since taking power in a 2014 military coup. But it was hardly the first time he has been laughed at, despite being Thailand’s most powerful military man. The 65-year-old former general’s repeated outbursts at reporters, at times swearing at them while being bombarded…

A legal challenge against the use of EU-endorsed standard contractual clauses for underpinning the transfer of personal data from the EU to the US has successfully navigated its way through the Irish courts.

Japanese authorities have seized HK$4.3 billion (US$550 million) worth of crystal meth and arrested seven suspected drug traffickers, including at least one Hongkonger, in the country’s largest ever drugs bust.The seven suspects, all Chinese men aged between 20 and 49, were taken into custody in Minamiizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, in a joint operation between the Japan Coast Guard and the Metropolitan Police Department earlier this week.Law enforcement sources told the Post at least one Hong Kong…