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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 )
17/04/2024 WhatsApp rolls out new chat filters to help you locate unread and group conversations ( General )

Retail Asia24/07/2020

Bangkok’s Tops Market Westgate has undergone a major renovation designed to position the supermarket as the “most complete premium lifestyle supermarket in Thailand”. The revamp features six “magnet” zones introducing more than 40,000 globally sourced products and focused on meeting a broad range of target consumer trends, in a move to match Central Plaza Westgate’s […]

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Retail Asia24/07/2020

Airasia’sfinancial performance in the first quarter of the year was below expectations, owing to the double whammy of the Covid-19 pandemic and low oil prices, which led to fuel hedge losses. As analysts predict more pain ahead for Asia’s largest budget airline, many anticipate losses at its long-haul affiliate AirAsia X Bhd to be worse […]

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Retail Asia23/07/2020

The parent company of social-media app Snapchat, Snap, reported its second-quarter results after the market closed today at 4 pm EDT. During the three months including April, May, and June, Snap reported a 17% hike in revenue year-over-year to $454 million. However, the net loss increased from $255 million during last year’s second quarter to $326 million […]

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Retail Asia23/07/2020

Luk Fook Holdings has reported a 71-per-cent plunge in first-quarter same-store sales due to the impact of Covid-19 on tourist numbers traveling to Hong Kong. However, the company said that entering June, as retail sentiment in Hong Kong and on the mainland gradually improved, the overall same-store sales decline of the company’s self-operated shops narrowed […]

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Retail Asia23/07/2020

Strong sales across Asia and rapid online growth helped beauty-products retailer Groupe L’Occitane contain its sales decline during the June quarter to a comparatively respectable 22 percent. The Hong Kong-listed company singled out China, South Korea, and Taiwan as its strongest-performing markets, which “bounced back rapidly” after lockdowns, recording year-on-year sales growth of 24.9 percent, […]

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Retail Asia22/07/2020

Google is testing a new feature for the Chrome browser app on Android. A “download later” feature will allow Chrome users to schedule downloads on the mobile browser. All the user needs to do is select the time and date when he wants the browser to start downloading. This feature can also be set to […]

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Retail Asia22/07/2020

Chinese internet firm V1 Group has partnered with Suqian Jingdong to introduce sports-lottery retailing into JD Convenience Stores within the territory via its subsidiary Crazy Sports. The convenience-store chain has been established by JD New Markets by upgrading and rebranding traditional outlets across China and installing a uniform store image, store management, facilities configuration, service […]

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Retail Asia22/07/2020

Household and consumer goods retailer Muji has built a Muji bus – a store inside a revamped tourist coach targeting consumers living in Japan’s mountainous regions. The new Muji to Go mobile store launches alongside Muji’s largest store internationally which has opened in Tokyo’s Naoetsu Shopping Centre. Its aim is to help revitalize the brand […]

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Retail Asia21/07/2020

AirAsia Philippines said ticket sales were increasing as it gradually ramped up operations and offered flexible rebooking options amid the new coronavirus pandemic. The budget carrier, part of Malaysia’s AirAsia Group, said June ticket sales rose by 30 percent versus May, when major cites around the Philippines were still under lockdown rules. “AirAsia’s road to […]

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Retail Asia21/07/2020

7-Eleven has hit a new milestone with the opening of its 71,100th store, located in Seoul, the capital of South Korea. “7-Eleven’s iconic orange, green and red stripes are easily recognized in 17 countries around the world,” said 7-Eleven President and CEO Joe DePinto. “The company got its start because an entrepreneurial ice-dock employee saw […]

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Retail Asia21/07/2020

Another day, another major Android threat discovered by security researchers as it lurks in the shadows in anticipation of its time in the mischievous limelight. In a way, this BlackRock malware detected and rigorously documented by the folks over at ThreatFabric can be considered even scarier and more dangerous than the Joker virus that made headlines recently or other similar […]

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Retail Asia21/07/2020

If there ever was an app tailor-made for the coronavirus it is Zoom. The video conferencing app can host video chats consisting of up to 100 participants. During the three months from April through June, when COVID-19 was keeping most Americans inside, Zoom generated a new App Store record 94 million installs on iOS. During […]

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Retail Asia21/07/2020

Singapore supermarket chain FairPrice Finest has launched an in-store radio network in partnership with SPH Radio. The new channel, live in all 26 stores, will offer FMCG companies another channel in which to advertise to shoppers in-store, as well as music and content from SPH radio stations. The station will reach an estimated 2.5 million […]

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Retail Asia20/07/2020

British grocery retailer Tesco and Indian conglomerate Tata have invested another US$8.9 million into their joint venture Trent Hypermarket. The move marks the first major capital investment in the business by the partners in two years, and comes on the heels of the appointment of new CEO Martin Bailie. While revenues expanded 22.5 percent to […]

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Retail Asia20/07/2020

Microsoft revealed a bucketload of new features that will be coming to Outlook mobile. Many of these improvements have already been released, while others will be added very soon. It’s also important to mention that most of them focus on two aspects: online meetings and video calls. First off, we have a brand new feature called Meeting […]

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Retail Asia20/07/2020

After dismal updates from luxury goods groups this week, the company behind Cartier could be forgiven for a 47-per-cent slump in sales in its first financial quarter, writes Bloomberg’s Andrea Felsted. More disappointing is that Richemont’s powerful digital platform did a little better. Sales at the company’s online distributors, led by Yoox Net-a-Porter, fell 42 […]

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Retail Asia17/07/2020

Vietnam Airlines is seeking an urgent VND12 trillion ($518 million) bailout from the government as the coronavirus continues to hit its revenues. It is likely to report a loss of VND13 trillion ($561 million) this year, with revenues falling by half from last year to around VND50 trillion ($2.2 billion), CEO Duong Tri Thanh said […]

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Retail Asia17/07/2020

Vietnam’s coal imports surged to a record high in the first half of the year, showing its rising reliance on coal-fired power plants. They rose 53.8 percent year-on-year to 31.57 million tons, according to Vietnam Customs. The imports, mostly from Australia, Indonesia, and Russia, exceeded local production by 25 percent. Vietnam turned from a net […]

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Retail Asia16/07/2020

C.H. Robinson and Microsoft Corp. announced they are joining forces to digitally transform supply chains of the future by combining the power of C.H. Robinson’s Navisphere, Microsoft Azure and Azure IoT to meet the changing demands of evolving global supply chains. Through this alliance, the companies aim to enable real-time visibility for C.H. Robinson customers. […]

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Retail Asia16/07/2020

Google Maps’ Live View feature provides AR-based navigation to those who are walking from point “A” to point “B.” Over a real-time view of the streets ahead of you supplied by the rear cameras on your phone, directions and arrows are overlayed making it easy to walk from place to place. But there is another […]

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