American fashion brand J Crew is to close its two Hong Kong stores later this month, six years after it chose the city as the launchpad for a failed Asian…
French beauty giant Sephora has stopped offering custom makeovers in hundreds of stores across Asia-Pacific as a precautionary measure to protect customers and staff from the coronavirus. A company spokesperson…
HSBC continues to show support for small to medium-sized businesses hit by the coronavirus outbreak in Hong Kong with additional liquidity relief of $30 billion. The bank said during the…
Tata Sons may partner Singapore Airlines (SQ, Singapore Changi) in bidding for Air India, amid hopes it will merge its AirAsia India subsidiary with the flag carrier’s low-cost unit Air India Express, local media reported…
Besides contributing $300,000 and manpower to a community shop, the bank will also leverage its data analytics to guide them on the distribution of food items. OCBC Bank will contribute…
Vietnam Airlines has inked an agreement with Singapore-based ST Engineering Aerospace (STEA) to explore a joint venture doing airframe maintenance work. The venture, to be set up using Vietnam Airlines…
Apple also developed Deep Fusion which is similar to the Pixel’s HDR+. When a photo is snapped on the iPhone, nine different exposures are created including four short exposures, four…
The iOS version of WhatsApp is one of the not so many popular apps that doesn’t have a dark theme yet. Facebook delayed the release of this long-awaited feature for so…
Textiles businesses, including several with no prior experience, have begun producing antibacterial masks after authorities announced a daily need of 10 million. At the beginning of last week, Toan, an…
Estee Lauder has reported “strong double-digit sales growth” in nearly every Asia-Pacific market in the latest quarter. Globally, the company achieved sales of US4.62 billion in the three months to…
To meet rising demand for air travel between Vietnam and India as well as across the region, Vietjet has announced three new direct routes connecting Vietnam’s three largest hubs, Da…
Everyone was complaining about Netflix’s autoplay previews, but it took the streaming service quite a long time to do something about it. Although the feature is still active in all…
The platform, which connects players in the trade value chain in Singapore to their counterparts abroad, cuts trade processing time from about one week to a day. DBS Bank has completed…
The move continues the bank’s string of similar hires from top global consulting firms to its Singapore office. Standard Chartered has hired Douglas Jackson as managing director of group strategy, who moved…
Chinese online e-commerce giants Alibaba and JD have both introduced logistics solutions for medical personnel working to arrest the spread of coronavirus in China. Alibaba has launched a global B2B…
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