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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 )
11/04/2024 Samsung adds more language availability within Galaxy AI ( Electronics )
11/04/2024 YouTube Music promises Podcasts will get better on the platform ( General )
09/04/2024 WhatsApp to roll out new photo library shortcut for faster sharing ( General )
09/04/2024 Google Messages will soon start to warn you when tapping on links sent by unknown senders ( General )
08/04/2024 Siri might end up King in the realm of digital assistants after iOS 18 AI makeover ( Electronics )
05/04/2024 Google’s “Find My Device” network reportedly launching in 3 days ( General )
04/04/2024 Instagram, Facebook, Whatsapp users are reporting a “Major Disruption” worldwide ( General )

Retail Asia04/03/2024

Tran Manh Duc, 30, decided to quit his office job to pursue a career as a TikToker four years ago despite opposition and skepticism among family and friends. At first he used TikTok only as a tool to advertise his company’s products, but when his first restaurant review video unexpectedly went viral, he started Saigon food review […]

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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 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 Asia24/08/2023

Australian supplement brand Vöost has added two new beauty products to its extensive range of effervescent vitamins and minerals. The company says its new Vöost + Skin Hydration and Vöost + Hair, Skin & Nails are designed to support healthy skin, hair and nails from within. The new additions will join the Vöost Collagen effervescent […]

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Retail Asia09/08/2023

The popularity of smart TVs and smartphones have left TV boxes, or set-top boxes, high and dry. This month a leading electronics retail chain stopped selling TV boxes. Others sell only two of them: Xiaomi Mi Box and Apple TV. Even a few years ago there were no less than five TV box brands with […]

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Retail Asia22/06/2023

Instagram introduced Reels in 2020, and since then, this feature’s popularity has grown, reaching over 2.35 billion monthly active users. Now, Instagram is rolling out a new feature for its users in the US. Adam Mosseri, CEO of Instagram, announced on his broadcast channel that the company will allow users to download Reels to their […]

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Retail Asia04/04/2023

Gasoline prices rose slightly on Monday after falling to their lowest in 2 months on March 21. RON95 went up 0.39% to VND23,120 ($0.98) per liter. E5 RON92 increased by 0.28% to VND22,080. Diesel stopped its downward trend with a 0.67% rise to VND19,430. Globally, the average price of fuel products increased by 0.6-2.4%. Per-barrel […]

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Retail Asia29/03/2023

Vietnam is finding it difficult to sell 102 million liters of RON92, an out-of-date gasoline the country wants to replace with more RON95 in the national reserve. To obtain more space and money for today’s most common and popular gasoline RON95, Vietnam needs to sell its reserves of the cheaper RON92 fuel, which was supposed […]

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Retail Asia02/03/2023

Cooking gas prices have fallen by VND16,000 (68 cents) to VND461,000 for a 12-kg cylinder in Ho Chi Minh City and other southern localities as global prices declined. Saigon Petro Co. announced the cut Wednesday after global suppliers lowered average prices by $60 to $730 per ton for March. The price of a 12-kg cylinder […]

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Retail Asia08/02/2023

Experts say that taxing housing will help make the real estate market more transparent and prevent speculation, but it is necessary to digitize data, ensure fairness, and avoid overlapping taxes. The government plans to enact a new law on real estate taxation in place of the Law on Agricultural Land Use and the Law on […]

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Retail Asia23/09/2022

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While various stimulus packages got the global economy through the short-term challenges of COVID-19, they were always going to cause difficulties in the medium term. Inflation has risen and recessions look likely, so how can investors respond effectively? The global economic system appeared to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated lockdowns. Individual policymakers […]

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Retail Asia15/09/2022

IKEA Korea said Wednesday its sales fell 10 percent in this fiscal year in the first decline after entering Korea in 2014 as more customers held back spending on home furnishing goods amid eased virus restrictions. The Korean arm of the Swedish furniture maker said it logged 618 billion won ($444.3 million) in sales in […]

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Retail Asia31/08/2022

Gas stations in several southern localities have run out of supplies of petrol, diesel and other fuels and have stopped doing business. In Tinh Bien District, An Giang Province, six gas stations that get their supplies from Ho Chi Minh City-based Dai Dong Duong Petroleum JSC have stopped selling since Monday. A Dai Dong Duong […]

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Retail Asia30/08/2022

New details on Netflix’s controversial upcoming ad-supported plan have emerged. The information was first brought forward in a recent article by Bloomberg. The biggest questions on potential users’ minds – i.e. how much the ad-supported option is going to cost every month – has not received a definitive answer. Nevertheless, according to Bloomberg’s sources, we might […]

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Retail Asia19/08/2022

The battle of the subscription services is on. This time around, it is time for HBO Max to shine with an exclusive offer of its own. HBO Max, the television giant’s take on a video streaming service, is set to become even more accessible. The company announced that it would be offering a 30% discount […]

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Retail Asia15/07/2022

After it teased the upcoming launch of an ad-supported subscription plan, Netflix has now revealed that it picked Microsoft to help make that happen. Under the agreement, all ads served on Netflix will be exclusively available through the Microsoft platform. “It’s very early days and we have much to work through. But our long-term goal is clear. More […]

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Retail Asia02/06/2022

Popular short video sharing platform TikTok has been recently working on some new features for its ever-growing user base. Now, a new feature that will make your TikTok binge experience a more distraction-free one, so you can focus on the content you’re viewing at a given moment. TikTok’s Clear mode has been spotted by Matt Navara, […]

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Retail Asia02/05/2022

The monthly incomes of foreign experts ranged between US$8,500 and $34,000 last quarter, according to a recent report by recruitment firm Navigos Search. The report said enterprises operating in Vietnam “pay very high salaries” to attract foreign candidates. Navigos Search said some sectors like a garment, tourism, and hospitality have a high demand for foreign […]

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Retail Asia22/03/2022

The minimum wage – minimum living standard gap has been widening for years, but there is no solution in sight as workers struggle to make ends meet. Vietnam first introduced the “minimum living standard” term in its 2012 Labor Law, which requires that the minimum wage must meet the minimum living standard. A decade later, […]

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Retail Asia25/01/2022

Hanoi serviced apartment rents fell by 3 percent to a three-year low of VND547,000 (US$24.16) per square meter per month last quarter, according to Savills Vietnam. Compared to a year earlier the average rents for grades A-C apartments decreased by 4 percent to VND705,000, and 11 percent to VND233,000. The average occupancy remained unchanged from […]

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