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Retail Asia10/10/2018

Nokia has completed a demonstration of its smart city management solution IOC for Vietnamese military-run operator Viettel in support of the government’s smart city ambitions. Nokia demonstrated its Integrated Operations Center to the operator during a trial in Hanoi. The IOC solution is designed to orchestrate smart city operations providing a unified real-time management of all smart […]

Retail Asia20/02/2018

Time Out’s City Life Index, a survey of 15,000 people in 32 global cities, has been released, and it shows which ones promise the most fun and excitement in 2018. Eight of them are on this side of the world. The survey, conducted by Tapestry Research, questioned residents on a variety of aspects of city […]

Retail Asia04/09/2017

South Korea’s first lifestyle and hotel complex will open on October 1 in Seoul’s Yongsan District, which is known for its shopping centres and nightlife. Launched by AccorHotels, The Seoul Dragon City will have 1,700 rooms and 11 restaurants and bars under four hotel brands. The Sky Bridge will be a unique structure with four floors […]

Retail Asia07/08/2017

The Philippines has taken another step towards an integrated flight network with two new routes serving Davao City. Cebu Pacific is now running regular services from the Mindanaoan city to Dumaguete and Tacloban. The airline’s subsidiary Cebgo will fly on Monday, Wednesday and Friday to and from Dumaguete, and on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Saturday […]

Retail Asia11/04/2017

A shortage of capital is the key problem of both Line 1 (Ben Thanh – Suoi Tien) and Line 2 (Ben Thanh – Tham Luong) urban railway projects. The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee is the developer responsible for the two projects. At the Metro Ben Thanh-Suoi Tien project, the developer has been slow […]

Retail Asia05/04/2017

HCM City’s technology-based programme to control and trace the origin of pork that began recently is encountering difficulties, according to the Department of Industry and Trade. Speaking at a regular department press briefing, Nguyễn Phương Đông, its deputy director, said 713 pig farms have registered to participate in the programme, but only 99 put rings […]

Retail Asia20/01/2017

NEC Laboratories Europe has teamed up with four other ETSI members to initiate a new ETSI Industry Specification Group on Context Information Management (ISG CIM), together with the Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC) organization. The ISG CIM will specify open standards for the context information management layer, running “on top” of IoT platforms, enabling […]

Retail Asia25/11/2016

The National Basketball Association (NBA) announced Wednesday the fourth NBA Store in the Philippines will open Nov. 24 at the Ayala Center in Cebu City. NBA Legend and Hall of Famer Gary Payton will be on hand to meet and interact with fans at the store opening, which will celebrate the league’s first NBA Store […]

Retail Asia22/11/2016

Online office supply company Service Partner ONE have released the 2016 Coffee Price Index, detailing which cities offer the best value coffee worldwide. The research, which took into account 75 cities from 36 countries across the globe, found that Rio de Janeiro, Brazil offers the least expensive average coffee price, whilst Zurich, Switzerland was the […]

Retail Asia27/09/2016

Transport operator SMRT has been awarded the tender for the construction of a public rail project in Bandung, the Mayor of Indonesia’s third-largest city said, a development that has elicited a thumbs-up from analysts. Local media in Indonesia had reported in recent days that SMRT will be the project operator for the Light Rail Transport […]

Retail Asia13/09/2016

Softbank and its affiliate company, Wireless City Planning, have officially launched the ‘5G Project’. As the first phase of the project, which was announced in Tokyo last week, Softbank plans to roll out commercial services based on Massive MIMO technology from September 16, a move which Softbank says will make it the world’s first cellco […]

Retail Asia14/04/2016

The Minister of Trade, Thomas Lembong, expects Malang to go global, thanks to its digital technology-based development, and by introducing the world to its potential, especially in creative products. “Malang must go global. I believe Malang and its people can go global in the digital age through internet and social media,” Lembong said here on […]

Retail Asia01/04/2016

Today, more than half of our planet’s population live in urban areas, with millions of people migrating from the countryside to towns and cities in search of prosperity to a point where the world’s urban population has rocketed from 746 million in 1950 to 3.9 billion in 2014, according to the United Nations. As urban […]

Tag: city

Nokia demonstrates smart city solution for Viettel

8 best cities on this side of the world to live

The Seoul Dragon City to open in October 2017

Cebu Pacific launches two new routes for Davao City

HCM City metro projects short on capital

Problems with City pork plan

NEC pushes interoperability of smart city tech

NBA legend Gary Payton to celebrate opening of NBA store in Cebu City

Singapore amongst 20 most expensive cities for coffee

Despite problems at home, SMRT eyes Indonesian market

Softbank, Wireless City kick off 5G project

Malang city expected to go intl through digital technology development

Is this the city of the future?