Author: Digital New Asia

Twin Towers Ventures and Gobi Partners sign MoU to catalyse sustainable innovation in AsiaPac 
Collaborative effort with cross-sharing of deal flow & potential co-investments Petronas Ventures has nvested in Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund Greater Bay Area
Dzuleira Abu Bakar headed to aviation industry as CEO of regional airline SKS Airways, starts on 15 Sept
Described by SKS as transformative, purpose-driven leader with excellent track record SKS leasing 10 Embraer E195-E2 single-aisle jets with operations from Subang Airport
CelcomDigi, SK Telecom sign MoU to develop Malaysia’s metaverse ecosystem
To collaborate on developing, offering metaverse & AI use cases Will enable co-creation of metaverse content, services for Malaysians
SAP appoints Saqib Sabah as Managing Director for Malaysia
Focus areas include helping customers, partners tackle issues they face In Malaysia alone, SAP serves around 1500 customers in 25 industries
Malaysia and China Collaborate to Enhance Cross-Border Supply Chain Traceability
Research in using blockchain to prevent fraud in supply chain processes Announcement against backdrop of heavy selling of MyEG’s shares since last week
Volvo Cars Malaysia to export EVs to Vietnam, Philippines as part of efforts to turn Malaysia into ASEAN EV hub
Aims for 75% of all Malaysian sales to be EVs by 2025 Auto industry awaits more good news from Budget 2023
TVET centre, SG Academy, recognises 265 students at its 9th graduation ceremony
Graduating batch has an 85% employment rate on graduation Fields such as Drones, Creative Multimedia, Mechatronics, Computer Systems
MYStartup-DNB collaborate over MYStartup Hackathon 2022 to solve corporate pain points
Central hackathon theme is to objectively solve DNB's areas of concern US$2.3k prize for each problem statement solved & a partnership with DNB
PRU.my attracts 12k users to predict Malaysia’s 15th general election
Encourage participation in process of democracy, especially young Malaysians Thrilled thousands participated, further development in mind with bigger missions
Astro uses broadband to entice commercial customers with BIZfibre
New offering comes in 5 packages, 3 with commercial TV, 2 without Marketed as legal solution to entertainment solution for the enterprise Astro today introduced BIZfibre, which it claims is a more stable high-speed broadband service that is paired with commercial TV packs. 
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