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24/04/2024 Puma to launch compostable shoes after a two-year pilot project ( Fashion )
24/04/2024 7-Eleven eyes 100,000 stores globally by 2030 ( General )
24/04/2024 Vietnam tops Southeast Asia in number of Apple suppliers ( Electronics )
24/04/2024 FPT and Nvidia to build $200M AI factory in Vietnam ( Electronics )
23/04/2024 Google Meet now lets users make annotations during presentations ( General )
22/04/2024 WhatsApp testing scheduling feature for easier event management in Communities ( General )
22/04/2024 EU set to approve Apple’s plan to open its NFC technology for rivals ( Electronics )
18/04/2024 Apple CEO Tim Cook says it is considering a manufacturing facility in Indonesia ( Electronics )
18/04/2024 Google Maps to show alternate transit and walking directions along with driving routes ( General )
17/04/2024 Apple releases iOS 17.5 beta 2 giving EU iPhone users more unique capabilities ( E-Tailing )
17/04/2024 WhatsApp rolls out new chat filters to help you locate unread and group conversations ( General )
16/04/2024 Google Chat working on adding group audio and video call function within Gmail Spaces ( General )
15/04/2024 Tim Cook arrives in Vietnam ( Electronics )
15/04/2024 Vietravel Airlines reports first profits in 3 years ( General )

Retail Asia20/12/2023

Worried about abuse and spam, Apple removed the collaborative Apple Music playlist feature from iOS 17.2. With the collaborative playlist, friends and family members can make changes to your playlist including the addition/deletion of songs, and the reordering of the list. In “Now Playing,” the same friends and family members can react to a particular song […]

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Retail Asia18/12/2023

Ikea Korea, the South Korean branch of the world’s largest furniture brand, has faced a continued downturn in its performance, reversing the growth observed last year. After experiencing a sales decline for the first time since entering the Korean market, Ikea Korea also posted its first fiscal-year loss this year. Since last year, Ikea has […]

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Retail Asia15/12/2023

Gasoline prices Thursday dropped to the lowest since May 11 while diesel hit a five-month low. The popular fuel RON95 fell 4.12% to VND21,400 per liter. Biofuel E5 RON92 dropped 3.66% to VND20,510. Diesel fell 3.65% to VND19,000. Global fuel prices decreased in the past seven days due to concerns that military tensions in the […]

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Retail Asia14/12/2023

With about two weeks left of 2023, Netflix decided it’s time to share details about what’s coming for those interested in the gaming part of its service. As some of you probably know already, Netflix started offering its subscribers free mobile games two years ago. Throughout 2023, the streaming company added no less than 40 games […]

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Retail Asia14/12/2023

Google improves the TV experience of its users all the time, and this year has been pretty big when it comes to the amount and quality of updates Google TV received. Obviously, there’s always room for improvement, so the Mountain View company is making sure that Google TV users know what to expect in the […]

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Retail Asia12/12/2023

Apple TV users rejoice as the app has just received a complete visual revamp to make navigating easier. The new app looks different on all iOS devices, so you’ll benefit from all the changes no matter where you prefer to watch your favorite series and films. The most obvious change is the new, simplified interface […]

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Retail Asia12/12/2023

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has proposed installing another power transmission line to Laos to increase supply. It would help ensure energy security for northern Vietnam, especially during the dry season, as no new major power plant is set to go on stream until 2025, Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien said […]

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Retail Asia07/12/2023

As reported last month as a result of Disney acquiring the remaining stake in Hulu from Comcast, Disney announced an upcoming unified streaming experience that combined Disney Plus with Hulu. This one-app experience has arrived now as Hulu content is now available to be streamed from the Disney Plus app on Android, iOS, and Google TV. Upon opening the Disney+ app, […]

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Retail Asia05/12/2023

Strava made an exciting move this week, announcing messaging for iOS and Android users. The popular mobile app for athletes revealed a new feature that will be available for free to all its users, Messaging. Launched this week, the new feature offers users two options: direct (one-on-one) and group messages. In addition to these key features, […]

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Retail Asia04/12/2023

Google is changing the “likes” and “views” counters on YouTube to refresh automatically when a video is viewed. Currently, if you’re watching a video on the platform, the number of likes and views won’t change while viewing the clip. But with this update, those two metrics will rise and show a cool animation of a […]

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Retail Asia01/12/2023

On Thursday, prices of the popular gasoline RON95 dropped for the third time this month while diesel slid to a four-month low. RON95 fell 0.13% to VND22,990 ($0.95) per liter, while biofuel E5 RON92 rose 0.46% to VND21,790. This was RON95’s third straight decline this month. Diesel declined for the fourth time in a row […]

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Retail Asia24/11/2023

Gasoline prices went down for the second time in a row Thursday, while diesel declined for the third straight time. The popular gasoline RON95 fell 2.17% to VND23,020 ($0.95) per liter. Diesel went down 2.87% to VND20,280. Starting this week, the government will adjust retail fuel prices every Thursday instead of every 10 days as […]

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Retail Asia20/11/2023

Many IT employees are being laid off or forced to quit and struggling to find new jobs due to a decline in demand due to the economic downturn. After a payment project was unexpectedly canceled in July as the company, a big tech brand in HCMC, no longer had the cash to keep it running, […]

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Retail Asia14/11/2023

Gasoline prices dropped slightly, while diesel slid to a three-month low Monday afternoon. The popular fuel RON95 fell 1.63% to VND23,530 ($1), while biofuel E5 RON92 dropped 1.5% to VND22,270. Diesel plunged 4.83% to VND20,880. In the last 13 days fuel prices have fluctuated globally due to tightened supply after Russia and Saudi affirmed production […]

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Retail Asia10/11/2023

Starting Thursday, Vietnam’s power prices increased by 4.5% to over VND2,000 (8.2 U.S. cents) per kWh, the second time they went up this year. Average power prices have increased from VND1,920.37 to VND2,006.79 per kWh, just six months after prices increased by 3% in May, state-owned Vietnam Electricity (EVN) announced. Nguyen Quoc Dung, head of […]

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Retail Asia02/11/2023

Gasoline prices went up for the second time in over a week, while diesel prices dropped slightly. The popular fuel RON95 went up 1.79% to VND23,920 per liter. Biofuel E5 RON92 rose 2.08% to VND22,610. Diesel dropped 2.46% to VND21,940. Global prices have fluctuated in the last 10 days amid Middle East tension and the […]

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Retail Asia27/10/2023

Universal Music Japan (UMJ), a subsidiary of Universal Music Group (UMG), has opened a concept store to cater to music enthusiasts. The four-storey store in the centre of Tokyo’s hip contemporary fashion destination Harajuku, provides a platform for artists to express their creative ideas and share them with their audience through activity programs. The store […]

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Retail Asia27/10/2023

The Hanoi Railway Transport Joint Stock Company has reported record after-tax profits of VND54 billion (US$2.2 million) mainly due to a nonrecurring revenue item, interest in bank deposits. It received interest of VND245 billion on deposits, but also managed to trim expenses, according to its latest financial statements. Gross profit rose 40% year-on-year to VND110 […]

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Retail Asia17/10/2023

With the construction of many large power plants stalling or slowing and the dependence on imports for energy increasing, electricity shortages are possible until 2050, lawmakers fear. According to a report on energy development in 2016-21 done recently by a supervisory team form the National Assembly Standing Committee, Vietnam’s primary energy resources are increasingly depleting […]

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Retail Asia16/10/2023

China is still a key growth market for budget furniture retailer IKEA despite the world’s second-largest economy showing signs of strain, executives at the biggest IKEA store owner said on Thursday (Oct 12). China was for several years the fifth biggest market by revenue for Ingka, which runs most IKEA stores globally, but it has […]

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