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Standard Chartered opens Singapore innovation lab

Mei Ling Tan March 29, 2016

Standard Chartered Bank has opened a new innovation lab in Singapore to explore the use of emerging technologies and data sciences in support of the bank’s digital transformation strategy. The…

Shell seeking new upstream growth

Mei Ling Tan March 29, 2016

Following the sale of its shares in Shell Refining Company (federation of Malaya) Bhd (SRC) to a Chinese company, Royal Dutch Shell plc is seeking new opportunities for further growth…

Hong Kong textile eye India as alternative production base to cut cost

Mei Ling Tan March 29, 2016

India is rising, not only as a new choice of relocating labour-intensive industries from China, but also as a retail market of good potential, says a research report by The…

Seems customers leave bigger tips if they use mobile payment apps

Mei Ling Tan March 29, 2016

It’s likely only a matter of time before mobile payment apps become more popular among consumers, and there are some people very excited: restaurant waitstaff and bartenders. Both mobile payment…

Alibaba likely to surpass Walmart as world’s top retailer

Mei Ling Tan March 29, 2016

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is expected to surpass the US multinational firm WalMart soon as the world’s largest retail platform with its total trading volume this fiscal year set to…

Jucker votes for Big C buy

Mei Ling Tan March 29, 2016

Berli Jucker shareholders have voted in favour of the US$6.2 billion acquisition of a majority stake in Big C Thailand. The vote – virtually unanimous – followed news the listed…

Hong Kong Retailers Seek to Keep Strength

Mei Ling Tan March 29, 2016

Hong Kong has been branded as “shopping paradise” to many for a long time, but the city seems to have lost its attractiveness in recent years, as retail sales have…

Cruise business up 14% in Singapore last year

Mei Ling Tan March 29, 2016

The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) reports that the country witnessed encouraged growth in the cruise and business segments as the Singapore Cruise Centre (SCC) was named the number one cruise…

Chinese customs breaks $4.4m smuggling ring

Mei Ling Tan March 29, 2016

Mainland Chinese Customs recently smashed a $4.4m South Korean cosmetics smuggling racket operating between the Chinese port of Ningbo and Incheon Port, South Korea. This follows a crackdown on organised…

Singapore’s SME retail exporters can now gain better access to US market

Mei Ling Tan March 29, 2016

The revised de Minimis Threshold increases the limit to the United States from US$200 to US$800. Web-based small and medium enterprises (SMEs) retail exporters in Singapore can now gain better…

HSBC sets sights on Vietnam

Mei Ling Tan March 29, 2016

HSBC Bank (Vietnam) chief executive Pham Hong Hai (right) and Kelvin Tan, chief executive of HSBC Thailand, say HSBC aims to capitalise on its presence in seven of the 10…

Robinson Department Store plans growth

Mei Ling Tan March 28, 2016

Thailand’s Robinson Department Store aims to invest about 16.8 billion baht (US$479 million) on opening stores over the next five years with the aim of boosting average sales growth by…

New Muji Singapore flagship planned

Mei Ling Tan March 28, 2016

A new Muji Singapore flagship store is planned – but the Japanese lifestyle brand is coy about the opening date. Featuring an expanded array of lifestyle concepts, the new store…

Warm weather chills TSI Holdings bottom line

Mei Ling Tan March 28, 2016

With unseasonably warm weather at the end of last year dampening demand for winter clothing, Japanese apparel retailer TSI Holdings had weaker earnings for the year ended February 29. Its…

SM Mall of Asia to build museum

Mei Ling Tan March 28, 2016

The SM Mall of Asia and Museo del Galeon are set to launch the Manila-Acapulco Galleon Museum in Pasay City in the third quarter of 2016. The dome-shaped museum will…

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Hong Kong Retailers Seek to Keep Strength

Cruise business up 14% in Singapore last year

Chinese customs breaks $4.4m smuggling ring

Singapore’s SME retail exporters can now gain better access to US market

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