An American cartoon has taken life in Japan with the opening of Snoopy Museum Tokyo, in the Roppongi district. As well as exhibitions, the museum shop Brown’s Store will sell…
Norway-based Telenor has confirmed it may exit the Indian market if the operator is unable to procure spectrum at affordable rates, as operating losses from Telenor India mount. Announcing its…
Malaysia’s Celcom Axiata has excluded Nokia from its new five-year 4G network upgrade project, cutting its selection of vendor partners down to just Huawei and Ericsson. The company has signed…
Giant Cambodia has opened its first store in the kingdom, in Phnom Penh’s Grand City Mall. It is part of a major expansion into Cambodia by the Malaysian wholly owned…
Fashion group All Saints Japan has launched, with a dedicated website as well as a store in Tokyo. Out of the UK, All Saints made its Japan debut at Tokyo…
Forget stairs and elevators – a Shanghai mall has installed a five-storey enclosed slide for shoppers. Spiralling down some 54 metres, the 76cm wide chute at the Printemps mall in…
Ikea’s first pick-up and order point in China is currently being built in Wenzhou and is expected to officially open at the beginning of this summer. Ikea PUP store is…
Central Group is set to buy Zalora’s businesses in Thailand and Vietnam, according to reports. Zalora is a fashion-focused e-commerce site. Central Group’s assets, which include multiple shopping malls and…
Local food manufacturers looking to expand into China will now have an easier time with the help of a new initiative by IE Singapore and the Singapore Food Manufacturers’ Association…
Success or failure is often in the eye of the beholder, and in the case of Las Vegas Sands that sentiment holds very true today. On Wednesday after the market…
India’s telecoms ministry will mandate that all mobile phones sold in the country from 2017 must include a ‘panic button’ providing easy access to emergency services. As part of the…
Singapore’s DBS Bank has launched what it says is India’s first mobile-only bank. Dubbed digibank, the mobile app functions as an entirely paperless, signatureless and branchless bank for India’s residents.…
Hutchison 3 Indonesia (H3I) has contracted Nokia to expand its core network to meet growing mobile data demands in the market. Under the agreement, Nokia will supply H3I with packet…
Vacancies at retail malls in the central region hit a five-year high in the first quarter of the year, driven largely by more vacant space in the Orchard sub-market. The…
Retail Group Malaysia (RGM) is projecting a 4% growth rate for the local retail sector this year, as it believes that consumers will still continue to spend in spite of…
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