As well as electronics and mobile phones, its usual products, Vietnamese chain Mobile World is planning to distribute groceries in its first stores in Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar. CEO Tran…
An extra layer of security for mobile and digital payments has been introduced by Singapore’s United Overseas Bank (UOB) and Australia’s National Australia Bank (NAB). As well as making transactions…
With demand from Hong Kong, Brunei and Malaysia, Indonesian fashion brand Berrybenka is taking steps to beef up its eCommerce services. It will also be opening more pop-up stores outside…
Scammers create SMS competitions or trivia scams to trick you into paying extremely high call or text rates when replying to an unsolicited text message on your mobile or smart…
For the first time, 34 per cent of browser-based online transactions globally are now made on a mobile device, compared to slightly more than 30 per cent last quarter. And…
Korean women’s clothing mall Hotping entered the global market just six months ago – and already cross-border sales account for 10 per cent of its turnover. Monthly sales to customers…
More retail space is available in the city, with a slight dip in prices and a decrease in rental costs. Singapore retail vacancy rates rose to 7.2 per cent at…
Turnaround efforts are paying dividends for McDonald’s. The fast food giant’s latest results show continued progress with global comparable sales up 5 per cent, while the US had a very…
Courts Indonesia has opened its second megastore – inside BSD City, about 42 km west of Jakarta. The new store is part of a strategy by Singapore-listed Courts Asia to…
Apple Inc. announced on Saturday that it would soon open its 31st outlet in Qingdao, China. The retail outlet will be located in China’s biggest shopping complex, MixC luxury shopping…
Lotte Duty Free’s $3bn 555m World Tower duty free store in Seoul has won three globally recognised and prestigious design awards for the first time in the Korean duty free…
YTL Starhill Global REIT (SGReit) said its second quarter distribution per unit rose by 2.3 per cent to 1.32 cents. Revenue for the three months ended Dec 31 grew by…
The Journal is detailing Apple Inc.’s remarkable success in China, particularly with the iPhone, and questions about Apple’s future as China’s economy slows. Part of that success stems from the…
The Indonesian government is operating a marine vessel power plant (MVVP) called Zeynep Sultan to deal with electrical power deficit in North Sulawesi province. “The presence of this vessel is…
Indonesia may be attracting almost double the number of global tourists than India but visitors from here are few and the southeast Asian country has decided to grant free visas…
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