Norway's Telenor (TEL.OL) and Thai conglomerate Charoen Pokphand Group (CP Group) have agreed to merge their business units in Thailand in a US$8.6 billion deal. By combining True Corporation Plc. (True) and Total Access Communication Plc. (dtac), the two players will account to more than half of the mobile subscribers in the country. Telenor and CP Group, which will own...

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group (HKG: 9988) has unveiled plans to expand its cloud operations abroad, in a move that could accelerate its wider global take on big rival names like AWS, Microsoft and Oracle. The company said during its Apsara Conference, Alibaba's annual technology flagship event, that it will set up two new data centres in South Korea and Thailand wh...

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres has opened STT Bangkok 1, what the company claims to be the first carrier-neutral hyperscale data centre in Thailand. STT Bangkok 1 is the first of two buildings in the STT Bangkok Data Centre Campus, which is located at Hua Mak, one of the Thai capital's business districts. The seven-storey building offers a gross floor area of 30,000 sq...