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South Korea’s Lotte Chemical makes $3.1bn counter bid for Axiall

Mei Ling Tan June 9, 2016

The two companies last year formed a joint venture to build an ethylene cracker plant together in the US, which is due to start production in 2018. Lotte declined to…

Carrefour China beefs up distribution

Mei Ling Tan June 9, 2016

Carrefour China has opened a new distribution center is in Hongmei Town, Dongguan, Guangdong province. It says the centre will play an important role in the supply chain of Carrefour…

BT seals deal to manage Exact network

Mei Ling Tan June 9, 2016

BT has won a new contract to design, build and manage a fully secure global network for Exact, a provider of cloud business software. The 4-year contract covers the creation…

Salesforce moves into eCommerce with $2.8b M&A

Mei Ling Tan June 9, 2016

Salesforce.com is moving beyond CRM and into e-commerce with the acquisition of cloud service provider Demandware. It will use the purchase to kick-start a new field of business, the Salesforce…

Globe launches first 700-MHz base station

Mei Ling Tan June 9, 2016

Philippine operators Globe and PLDT have wasted no time in taking advantage of their newly-acquired 700-MHz spectrum holdings. Globe Telecom has announced it has activated the nation’s first cell site…

New Zealand opens technology center in Vietnam

Mei Ling Tan June 9, 2016

New Zealand has opened a new technology center at Quang Tring Software City in Ho Chi Minh City. The Kiwi Technology Center is envisioned to be a hub for New…

IP traffic set to nearly triple over next five years

Mei Ling Tan June 9, 2016

Global IP traffic is on track to nearly triple over the next five years as more than a billion new internet users come online, according to Cisco’s latest Visual Networking…

Nokia identifies top five reasons for mobile churn

Mei Ling Tan June 9, 2016

Mobile subscribers worldwide are placing more importance on customer service and value as network quality improves, research from Nokia indicates. The top five factors motivating the decision to select or…

Giorgio Armani Asia suffers in China

Mei Ling Tan June 9, 2016

Italian fashion house Giorgio Armani Asia is the latest luxury retailer to cite greater China as the cause of a downturn in sales. Burberry and Hugo Boss have also been…

Central Pattana plans to enter Malaysia

Mei Ling Tan June 9, 2016

Shopping mall developer Central Pattana, which runs 29 malls in Thailand, plans to open its first foreign outlet in Malaysia in 2018. It will work through a joint venture with…

Christian Lahoude Studio designed the 60-square-meter Jimmy Choo store in Hong Kong

Mei Ling Tan June 8, 2016

Christian Lahoude Studio designed the 60-square-meter Jimmy Choo store in Hong Kong’s luxury LANDMARK shopping mall, updating the existing space with the refreshed brand identity. The double-height, glass façade, with…

Massive O2O plan by Alibaba and Suning

Mei Ling Tan June 8, 2016

Alibaba and Suning, one of China’s largest electronics retailers, plan to fuel Chinese and international consumer electronics brands sales over the next three years by investing in an online-to-offline (O2O)…

Krispy Kreme Cambodia opens first outlet

Mei Ling Tan June 8, 2016

Krispy Kreme Cambodia has opened its first shop, in Phnom Penh. This makes Cambodia the 27th country to have a Krispy Kreme Doughnuts outlet. It will offer the brand’s classic…

Citilink Adds Nine Flights for Ramadan

Mei Ling Tan June 8, 2016

Citilink is set to add more flights in Holy Month Ramadan. “There will be at least 9 extra flights,” said Commerce Director of PT Citilink Indonesia, Hans Nugroho, on Thursday. Hans…

CatchPlay Launches Streaming Service in Indonesia Amid Land Grab

Mei Ling Tan June 8, 2016

Taiwanese film distribution and production company CatchPlay group has launched a streaming video-on-demand service in Indonesia with the country’s state-owned telecommunications giant Telkom Indonesia after offering such a service in…

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South Korea’s Lotte Chemical makes $3.1bn counter bid for Axiall

Carrefour China beefs up distribution

BT seals deal to manage Exact network

Salesforce moves into eCommerce with $2.8b M&A

Globe launches first 700-MHz base station

New Zealand opens technology center in Vietnam

IP traffic set to nearly triple over next five years

Nokia identifies top five reasons for mobile churn

Giorgio Armani Asia suffers in China

Central Pattana plans to enter Malaysia

Christian Lahoude Studio designed the 60-square-meter Jimmy Choo store in Hong Kong

Massive O2O plan by Alibaba and Suning

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Citilink Adds Nine Flights for Ramadan

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