Malaysia is becoming more important to US technology strategy through chips, cloud, AI infrastructure and advanced manufacturing. Malaysia attracted more than US$30 billion in data centre investment in 2024, making … Read more
A working tracker of who owns ecommerce GMV across fifteen Asian markets. Shopee, Coupang, Rakuten, Taobao, Flipkart — every leader is Asian-headquartered.
A working tracker of who owns mobile payments across fifteen Asian markets. Alipay and WeChat Pay in China, UPI in India, GCash in the Philippines, and a region-specific stack everywhere else.
How Asian gamers actually spend their time and money — by market. Mobile MOBAs in SEA, mobile gacha in Japan, premium PC and console in Korea, and a regulated mainland Chinese market that still sets the pace globally.
A tour through the benchmarks that actually measure LLM performance in Asian languages — Nejumi, KMMLU, BnMMLU, SEA-HELM — and what they tell us about the frontier vs domestic gap.
A working tracker of where ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and the major Chinese LLMs are accessible across fifteen Asian markets. Last updated April 2026.
Malaysia’s digital economy hit USD 31 billion in gross merchandise value during 2024, a 16% jump from the previous year, with the sector now expected to represent 25.5% of GDP … Read more
TikTok Shop grew from $4.4B to $45.6B GMV in SEA in 4 years. Here’s how it disrupted the entire region.
SEA ecommerce hit $159B GMV in 2024 (e-Conomy SEA). We break down a market forecast at $226B in 2026 and what’s actually changing.
Digital wallets, account-to-account payments and buy-now-pay-later services are changing how Southeast Asian consumers pay online. However, payment preferences differ substantially by market, and cash on delivery remains part of the … Read more
The DIA Briefing
Asia’s digital markets, every other week. Free.