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Indonesia gives green light to Ooredoo-Indosat merger valued at $6 billion
Indonesia on December 4 approved a merger of the local telecom units of Qatar’s Ooredoo and Hong Kong’s CK Hutchison supposed to be worth...
Exclusive: Indosat CEO on challenges and successes in ever-changing tech world
Imran Saddique sat down for a quick-fire interview on the start-up ecosystem in Indonesia with the CEO of Indosat, Alexander Rusli. Rusli is no...
Indonesia’s GDP to surge, surpassing Russia’s, Australia’s by 2023
Southeast Asia’s most populous nation, Indonesia, is set to become a trillion-dollar economy as early as in two years, according to a forecast by...
Ooredoo, Rocket Internet to fund Asian e-commerce start-ups
German incubator Rocket Internet announced that it is partnering with Ooredoo, the main telecom operator in Qatar (formerly known as QTel), in a new...
Qatar brings innovation to ASEAN
Good news emerged recently with regards to Qatar’s business involvement in Southeast Asia. Not only that the country’s telecom group Ooredoo announced that it...
Ooredoo’s landmark deal in Myanmar a big step
Qatar’s mobile phone major Ooredoo has made a great and successful step forward in expanding its reach in ASEAN by picking up a mobile...
Growth plans of Indosat with Qatar as a shareholder
Inside Investor met with Alexander Rusli, CEO of Indonesia’s mobile network operator Indosat, to learn how Qatar Telecom has impacted its business.
Looking East: Mobile phone boom in full swing
Mobile telephony has experienced a huge boom in Southeast Asia over the past decade, providing affordable communication for hundreds of millions of people. Investment opportunities are still there.
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Vietnam, India could replace China as Apple’s manufacturing hub – in the long run
US tech giant Apple has told its suppliers that it wants to expand contract manufacturing outside of China and is looking at Vietnam and...
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Malaysia expects almost $4 billion in US investments by the third quarter this year
Malaysia has attracted 16.52 billion ringgit ($3.8 billion) worth of new investments commitments through its trade mission in the US this year so far,...