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14-Mar-20 China named its first team of national AI champions in 2017, tasking them to develop the technology for uses including health care. The developments since have proven useful today, in light of the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. Diagnosis is the focus of most AI initiatives in China’s health care sector. [image: Reuters]
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03-Oct-19 Southeast Asia’s Internet economy will reach USD100 bn in 2019, up 39 percent from USD72 bn last year. While Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand are expanding at 20-30 percent, growth in Indonesia and Vietnam is over 40 percent. [image: bennymarty/123RF]
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29-Sep-19 The GCC market needs more scalable ideas combining real estate and technology to tap into future opportunities in proptech, and proptech entrepreneurship is still considered an underdeveloped market in the region. [image: Handout via Zawya]
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25-Sep-19 Vietnam-based BuyMed, the startup behind pharma distribution marketplace Thuocsi.vn, has secured USD500,000 in seed funding led by Singapore’s Cocoon Capital and VietCapital Ventures. BuyMed was founded in 2018 to simplify healthcare distribution in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. [image: BuyMed]
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18-Sep-19 Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Communications & IT and HR Development Fund will nationalise 14,000 jobs in the ICT sector, to help address youth unemployment. The program targets technical support, data analysis, project managers and call center functions. [image: REUTERS/Fahad Shadeed]
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