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South Korea is facing a triple challenge
Oped, Lee Jong-wha, Published on 30/05/2025
» Few countries have transformed themselves as dramatically as South Korea has over the last half-century. A poor, authoritarian country with annual per capita income of less than US$400 (13,000 baht) has become a vibrant and prosperous democracy, with direct presidential elections, peaceful transfers of power, and a per capita income of more than $33,000.
Chinese firm pushes mobile payments via AI glasses
South China Morning Post, Published on 29/04/2025
» HONG KONG — Consumer electronics firm DreamSmart Group, owned by Chinese auto giant Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, will soon enable mobile payments via smart glasses, according to an executive, as the race to make eyewear powered by artificial intelligence (AI) more useful to the public heats up.
Tariff stakes sky-high for Samsung and Vietnam
Published on 12/04/2025
» HANOI - When Samsung Electronics chairman Jay Y Lee met Vietnam’s prime minister in July, he had a simple message to convey. “Vietnam’s success is Samsung’s success, and Vietnam’s development is Samsung’s development,” Lee told Pham Minh Chinh, pledging long-term investment to make the country its biggest manufacturing base for display products.
Schools targeted with AI learning apps despite experts' doubts
Published on 16/12/2024
» Apps infused with AI are being marketed to schools across the world and governments are rushing to embrace the technology, despite experts raising serious doubts.
Netflix's Battle for Asian Subscribers Pits It Against Rich Rivals and Local Upstarts
Business, Published on 30/04/2022
» When Netflix Inc. recently disclosed it had suffered its first subscriber pullback in a decade, only one region showed growth: Asia.
Uneasy neighbours
Asia focus, Published on 12/08/2019
» Whenever North Korea fires missiles across the Korean peninsula and into the sea, condemnation from South Korea and neighbouring Japan is sure to follow. But last Tuesday, when Pyongyang conducted its fourth such test in two weeks -- coinciding with US-South Korean military drills -- scarcely a word was heard from Seoul or Tokyo.
Networking the future
Asia focus, Published on 05/08/2019
» Sébastien Laurent has never been a fan of cold weather. After growing up in the north of France in Normandy, enduring long winters in Canada as an undergraduate, and further studies in Paris, the chance to launch his telecommunications career in Southeast Asia warmed his heart.
Huawei ban puts South Korea in a familiar place
News, Published on 31/05/2019
» Less than a week after Huawei Technologies was blacklisted by the United States, more than a hundred South Korean politicians and business leaders toured the Chinese tech giant's headquarters and its lavish new campus outside Shenzhen.
US criminal probe of China's Huawei in 'advanced stages'
AFP, Published on 17/01/2019
» WASHINGTON:: US authorities are in the "advanced" stages of a criminal probe that could result in an indictment of Chinese technology giant Huawei, a report said Wednesday.
Huawei arrest threatens trade truce
Business, Published on 07/12/2018
» OTTAWA/VANCOUVER/SAN FRANCISCO: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd's chief financial officer was arrested in Canada over potential violations of US sanctions on Iran, provoking outrage from China and complicating thorny trade negotiations just as they enter a critical juncture.