With one eye on the pending ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), Samie Lim, the Philippines ‘Champion of Franchising’ urged fellow franchisors to view ASEAN as the next most lucrative markets, and…
In Kalimantan, the Indonesian side of the island of Borneo, the abundance of coal, oil and gas in the Indonesian state of Kalimantan has fuelled a surge in investment and…
As Philippine President Benigno Aquino III preps for his mid-term State of the Nation Address, the grand majority of the archipelagic country, despite breakneck 7.8 per cent Q1 GDP growth,…
Vietnam is home to one of the world’s fastest-growing online population, according to a new report by US-based Internet marketing firm eMarketer. In its report Vietnam Online: Mobile Internet Will…
Norway’s Telenor Group, one of the two companies that won a mobile phone license in Myanmar, said in a release on July that it will launch first mobile phone services,…
FlightStats, a US-based flight and airport information service provider, has recently released its May 2013 Airline and Airport On-time Performance Report which determines the most punctual airlines in the world…
Singapore-based agri-conglomerate Wilmar International said it will cease business relations with Indonesian firms that were allegedly involved in setting fires to clear land on their Sumatra plantations. Wilmar has been…
“We are blessed with every kind of energy that you can think of,” an Indonesian energy expert recently gushed during a forum at the Asian Development Bank. Indonesia, he would…
“I saw others beaten with different instruments, with things like a wooden rod or things like that… the senior crew attacked workers with knives. And some got killed and their…
South Korea’s electronics giant Samsung Electronics said on June 28 that it has received approval from the Vietnam government to increase the investment in its plant in the northern Vietnamese…
