Wholesale and Retail

Durian growers in Thailand are looking for a way to use the yet-to-be opened new China-Laos high-speed railway as a means of transport for...

Indonesian e-commerce giant GoTo will receive $400 million from the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), the sovereign wealth fund of the emirate of Abu...

Laos is adapting Cambodia‘s concept of introducing a government-backed cryptocurrency, the Japanese fintech involved last year in the creation of Cambodia’s digital money called...

Southeast Asia’s largest economy Indonesia is striving to develop an efficient and effectively enforced intellectual property (IP) ecosystem to stop rampant piracy and counterfeit...

A German startup company focusing on agricultural technology and indoor farming is nearing completion of a vertical mega-farm and research center in Singapore which...

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has come up with the idea to issue its own crypto coin in a bid to boost the...

The military government in Myanmar on September 30 said it was taking “full responsibility” for the country’s massive economic problems but at the same...

A Thai company has created the country’s first “virtual influencer,” a new species of fictional computer-generated personalities that are replacing real-life influencers on social...

The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated what was already a big trend in Indonesia, namely online grocery shopping. Experts expect the country’s grocery e-commerce market...

Thailand is desperately trying to revive its collapsed tourism industry by introducing new incentives for visitors, betting on higher vaccination rates against Covid-19 that...

A new study has found that Indonesians are increasingly using digital channels for all sorts of payments, including online shopping, food order, bills payment,...

Singapore-headquartered ride-hailing and e-commerce firm Grab has launched the first online supermarket in the Philippines, called GrabSupermarket Fresh, a completely new concept for the...

E-commerce is growing exponentially in Southeast Asia, with 70 million online shoppers added since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a report...

Indonesian fintech Kredivo, which is planning to go public on Nasdaq via a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, eyeing a valuation of $2.5...

Cambodian e-marketplace Smile Shop, dubbed the leading business-to-consumer e-commerce platform in the country, is receiving a major boost from a new partnership with Chinese...

A new player appears on Thailand's food delivery market Malaysia’s budget airline group AirAsia on August 18 launched...

The ultimate convenience food in Asia: Instant noodles Indonesia and Vietnam are the second- and third-largest instant noodles...

Vietnam has set itself a goal that the digital economy should represent 20 per cent of gross...