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How Southeast Asia became a blockchain hub

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05-Jul-18 A mix of social and economic factors have combined to make Southeast Asia a rapidly developing blockchain technology hub, including the region’s under-subscription to its banking network, with only 27% of the 655 million population holding a bank account. [image: iStock / Asia Times]

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Southeast Asia’s remittance sector finds a friend in crypto

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04-Jun-18 Southeast Asia could be leading the way in integrating crypto-currencies into mainstream society with companies like Cambodia-based DApact utilizing digital-tokens to provide a record of transactions, or the Filipino company Coins, facilitating transfers in the remittance industry. [image: Reuters / Romeo Ranoco]

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China delivers 20 mobile clinics to Cambodia

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10-May-18 China has delivered the first batch of 20 mobile clinics to Cambodia, supplied by Sinopharm Group, to serve rural communities. The clinics are buses designed to be primary-care clinics. [image: Xinhua Net]

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China to provide 40 mobile health clinics to Cambodia

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15-Feb-18 Forty mobile clinics and other tools will arrive in Cambodia, which will provide healthcare services to people faster and more effectively than currently, following an agreement between the Cambodian Health Ministry and the Chinese embassy in Cambodia. [image: Khmer Times]

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Myanmar lures Thailand's richest health firm

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24-Jan-18 Thonburi Healthcare Group, Thailand’s top-performing health stock in 2017, will open a USD75 mn, 200-bed hospital in Myanmar in June 2018 as part of a USD253 mn investment to expand services in Thailand and Southeast Asia. [image: Bloomberg]

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