Alibaba, Huawei race to gain edge in Southeast Asia's cloud market

Chinese tech firms build out network of data centers, tapping into booming sector

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Speakers from Huawei Technologies attend a November launch event for its first data center in Indonesia. (Screenshot from video posted by Huawei on social media)

TAKASHI KAWAKAMI, RISA KAWABA and KOSUKE INOUE, Nikkei staff writers

GUANGZHOU/TOKYO/BANGKOK -- Alibaba Group Holding and Huawei Technologies are among the Chinese tech companies rushing to build data centers in Southeast Asia to capture a red-hot market for cloud computing.

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