• TECH

  Malaysia's digital challenges

  Asia focus, Published on 04/04/2022

  » The digitisation of the global economy has been helping many businesses to thrive in ways not possible just a decade ago. At a time of fragile economic recovery, digital technologies such as e-commerce platforms can play an important role in promoting trade expansion, notably cross-border trade, as well as productivity gains.

• TECH

  Teens use VR to capture Hiroshima horror

  Asia focus, Published on 20/08/2018

  » FUKUYAMA, Japan: It's a sunny summer morning in Hiroshima. Cicadas chirp in the trees. A lone plane flies high overhead. Then a flash of light, followed by a loud blast. Buildings are flattened and smoke rises from crackling fires under a darkened sky.


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  New iPhone good news for China exports

  Asia focus, Published on 08/09/2014

  » The Apple iPhone 6 is expected to be a hit for Apple Inc, but could also add at least 1% to the 2014 exports of China and Taiwan, where the phones and their components are made, according to a report by BoA Merrill Lynch.

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  Connecting the world

  Asia focus, Published on 15/09/2014

  » Indonesia's state-run PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom) is embarking on a project to establish the country as the new global telecoms gateway, following the recent launch of a new submarine cable project that directly connects Southeast Asia and the United States.

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  Think small, grow bigger

  Asia focus, Published on 18/08/2014

  » The story of Myanmar's economic resurgence has attracted investors from all over the world, and most of the attention has been devoted to big businesses and multinationals. But the country also has a strong entrepreneurial spirit that has yet to be properly tapped.

• TECH

  Small-screen Addiction

  Asia focus, Published on 16/06/2014

  » Indonesians spend more time staring at screens than any other people in the world, but it is their smartphone use that excites the world’s handset makers and application providers the most.

• TECH

  Staying safe online

  Asia focus, Published on 23/06/2014

  » So you think you’re safe behind your phone screen? Think again – neither you nor your precious child learning how to use Facebook can be assured of a completely trouble-free online life.

• TECH

  BlackBerry counts on Indonesia to revive fortunes

  Asia focus, Published on 19/05/2014

  » The latest offering from the Canadian smartphone maker BlackBerry has hit store shelves in Indonesia as the ailing company is pushing to regain its market glory in Southeast Asia’s largest economy.

• TECH

  Dell recaptures old spirit and looks beyond PCs

  Asia focus, Published on 10/02/2014

  » After months of corporate manoeuvring that led to it being taken private last year, Dell Inc has a renewed sense of excitement and the freedom to make the bold moves necessary to thrive again, with Asia one of its primary areas of focus, says the computer maker’s founder.

• TECH

  Telecoms leading new FDI push into Myanmar

  Asia focus, Published on 17/03/2014

  » The inflow of foreign direct investment into Myanmar, a country that has only recently begun to open up to the world, is likely to reach at least $4 billion by next year as the country takes a leap forward in its development of infrastructure.

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