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26/04/2024 Changi Airport Group awards OUE tender for lease and development of new hotel at Changi Airport Terminal 2 ( General )
26/04/2024 Korean Air to launch new route to Macau ( General )
26/04/2024 WhatsApp is working on an option to stop notifications when someone reacts to your status updates ( General )
24/04/2024 Puma to launch compostable shoes after a two-year pilot project ( Fashion )
24/04/2024 7-Eleven eyes 100,000 stores globally by 2030 ( General )
24/04/2024 Vietnam tops Southeast Asia in number of Apple suppliers ( Electronics )
24/04/2024 FPT and Nvidia to build $200M AI factory in Vietnam ( Electronics )
23/04/2024 Google Meet now lets users make annotations during presentations ( General )
22/04/2024 WhatsApp testing scheduling feature for easier event management in Communities ( General )
22/04/2024 EU set to approve Apple’s plan to open its NFC technology for rivals ( Electronics )
18/04/2024 Apple CEO Tim Cook says it is considering a manufacturing facility in Indonesia ( Electronics )
18/04/2024 Google Maps to show alternate transit and walking directions along with driving routes ( General )
17/04/2024 Apple releases iOS 17.5 beta 2 giving EU iPhone users more unique capabilities ( E-Tailing )
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Retail Asia17/09/2020

Central Retail (CRC) is to buy out COL Public Company, the parent company of Thai retail chains OfficeMate, B2S, and Meb E-Books. The deal with COL, which is estimated at US$390 million, will add the three brands to CRC’s existing retail portfolio and “strengthen Central Retail’s hardlines group” the company said in a statement. The […]

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Retail Asia17/09/2020

During its first major virtual event suggestively called Waze On, the navigation company owned by Google revealed a slew of new features coming to the app, as well as an important partnership with another big name – Amazon. First off, Waze confirmed that Amazon Music will join its audio player partner program in the coming months […]

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Retail Asia17/09/2020

South Korean online platform Naver has invested in Singaporean classified-ad service Carousell. The US$80 million investment was made by a consortium led by the firm that includes other Korean investment businesses Mirae Asset-Naver Asia Growth Fund and NH Investment & Securities. The completed transaction will elevate Carousell’s value above $900 million and reflects the increased […]

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Retail Asia17/09/2020

Officially released data for retail sales in China show a rise for the first time this year as the economy recovers from the impact of the coronavirus. Figures for August showed a year-on-year increase of 0.5 percent in retail revenues. Dramatic increases were seen in sales of communication equipment (25.1 percent) and automobiles (11.8 percent). […]

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Retail Asia16/09/2020

The Chinese e-commerce giant is in talks with Singapore-based ride-hailing and payments firm Grab over a potential $3 billion investment into the company. Part of the funds will be used to purchase Grab stock held by Uber, which acquired 23.2 percent of the company when it exited Southeast Asia in 2018, as reported on Monday, […]

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Retail Asia16/09/2020

Bamboo Airways plans to launch more new routes to Asian destinations like Japan, Singapore, and Australia besides resuming services to Taiwan and South Korea. It will resume flights from Hanoi to Taipei in Taiwan on September 29 and Seoul in South Korea on October 7. There will be one weekly round trip to begin with. […]

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Retail Asia15/09/2020

Chinese discount retailer Miniso has opened more than 40 stores in Vietnam, four years since it launched in the market. Miniso entered Vietnam with its first store in Hanoi in 2016. Since then, the brand has been the local’s favorite destination for discount merchandise. Miniso now has more than 700,000 fans following its Facebook account. […]

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Retail Asia15/09/2020

Japan’s retail recovery continued to proceed slowly during August following the largest recorded single-quarter sales decline in the nation’s history. According to the country’s Cabinet Office, the national real gross domestic product for April to June fell by 28.1 percent year on year, performing worse than at the depths of the global financial crisis in […]

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Retail Asia15/09/2020

Premium brand Moleskine is setting its eyes on Asia as a major potential growth market, planning expansion both online and offline and integrating more smart technology into its product range. In an interview with Inside Retail Asia, recently appointed CEO Daniela Riccardi says one of the core priorities of a five-year plan she has drafted for Moleskine […]

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Retail Asia15/09/2020

With Tuesday’s deadline forcing TikTok parent company ByteDance to divest itself of the short-form app’s U.S. operations or get banned in the states, Reuters reports that a group led by U.S. tech firm Oracle has been chosen by TikTok to buy the U.S. version of the very popular app for an undisclosed amount. Just before Oracle […]

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Retail Asia15/09/2020

Japanese discount retailer Don Don Donki is set to make its debut in Taipei. As yet, the company has not revealed any details regarding the location or opening date, however, various sources have confirmed the store will trade 24-seven in the popular shopping destination of Ximendeng. New of the company’s Taiwanese debut spread quickly after […]

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Retail Asia14/09/2020

YouTube Music has added a lot of new features and improvements in the last couple of months, but the most recent one is quite useful for those who’d like to listen to similar songs that made it their favorite playlists. As the title says, YouTube Music now features so-called “assistive playlists,” an easy way to provide […]

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Retail Asia14/09/2020

Japanese convenience-store operator 7-Eleven is launching a home-delivery service from its outlets to meet continued demand sparked by the Covid-19 outbreak. The service will commence this year initially with 100 Tokyo stores, to be expanded to 1000 from next year. The service will take on other e-commerce operators in the territory such as Amazon with […]

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Retail Asia14/09/2020

Gambling is popular all over Asia, with Macau being the traditional centre for glamorous casinos and high stakes rollers. But Singapore has risen in popularity as a casino destination as well. Singapore is famous for having stringent laws affecting such things as chewing gum and e-cigarettes – possession of either of these things will land […]

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Retail Asia11/09/2020

TikTok parent ByteDance has to divest itself of the app’s U.S. operations by September 15th or else the popular short-form video app will be banned in the states. The U.S. is concerned that because of perceived ties to the Communist Chinese government, TikTok users could have their personal information obtained by the Chinese. Thus, President […]

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Retail Asia11/09/2020

Back in 2017, Google Maps no longer worked with the Apple Watch. The reason why Google pulled it from the Apple Watch reportedly had something to do with the app’s limited capabilities on the watch compared to the iPhone app. At the time that Google made this announcement, it promised that Maps would return to the Apple Watch. And […]

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Retail Asia11/09/2020

Bamboo Airways will launch the first-ever direct flight from Hanoi to Con Dao Island, a tourism hotspot off the southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province, on September 29. There will be two round trips daily. The airline will also begin daily flights to Con Dao from the northern port city of Hai Phong and central Vinh […]

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Retail Asia10/09/2020

AirAsia Group is seeking to raise as much as 2.5 billion ringgit ($600 million) by the end of the year as it tries to survive a business slump exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. The Subang, Malaysia-based budget carrier may borrow up to 1.5 billion ringgit from banks and another 1 billion ringgit from investors, a spokeswoman said […]

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Retail Asia10/09/2020

Middle Eastern retail conglomerate Al-Futtaim is bringing Asian beauty retail brand Watsons to the Gulf in a partnership with AS Watson Group. The partnership marks AS Watson Group’s first franchise agreement in its almost 180-year of history and its first venture into the Middle East. The first Watsons flagship will launch in Dubai Mall on […]

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Retail Asia09/09/2020

Bamboo Airways plans to open a direct regular route between Hanoi and Melbourne early next year using the wide-body aircraft Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner. The airline made this announcement after conducting its first flight to Australia last Sunday to carry nearly 300 Vietnamese workers and students home. Nguyen Ngoc Trong, the deputy CEO of Bamboo Airways, […]

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