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Foxconn plans iPhone plant in Vietnam in response to US-China trade war
Taiwanese electronics assembler Foxconn Technology Group is planning to open an iPhone manufacturing facility for Apple in Vietnam to mitigate the effects of the...
Apple to license 100 official stores in Vietnam to tackle grey market
Apple Inc. intends to expand its store network in Vietnam by tightening its cooperation with the retail unit of FPT Corp, the country’s largest...
First homemade smartphone brand launched in Laos
Laos' first domestic smartphone brand will be introduced to shops and agencies in Vientiane and the country's provinces this month after a local IT...
Foxconn to replace tens of thousands of factory workers by robots
Taiwanese electronic giant Foxconn, the world's largest contract manufacturer for consumer electronics including iPhone, iPad, Kindle, Playstation and Xbox, as well as many types...
Finally: Apple to officially sell iPhones in Cambodia
Apple Inc. on July 18 officially launched the iPhone in Cambodia through its authorised reseller, iOne, giving customers - long used to gray market...
Blackberry’s last bastion: Indonesia
Canadian smartphone maker BlackBerry will on May 13 launch a new budget handset in Indonesia, one of its last bastions, a major step in...
Electrocuted by iPhone, now in Thailand
Just a few months after a Chinese woman died from an electroshock when answering her iPhone while it was charging, a Thai man was...
Apple’s ‘cheap’ iPhones launched globally
Apple started the rollout for its new "cheap" iPhones 5C and 5s on September 20. The double debut will see around-the-world sales of the...
Sina Weibo starts Southeast Asia expansion
The popular Chinese microblogging website Sina Weibo, often seen as a Chinese hybrid of Twitter and Facebook, has launched a company called Trend Media...
Apple’s board raises concerns about pace of innovation
According to a Fox Business Network report, the board of directors at Apple is raising concerns about the pace of innovation at the company.
For...
Cheap plastic iPhone coming to market
A just-released report confirms that Apple is indeed working on a cheaper, plastic iPhone to be released this fall. According to a New York...
Twitter adds abuse-reporting function
Twitter announced on July 29 that it will now be easier for users to report harassment and abuse from other users. This announcement comes...
Chinese woman electrocuted by iPhone, Apple says ‘sorry’
Chinese web news service Weibo, the local equivalent of Twitter, went hot after reports started circulating that a 23-year-old Chinese woman was killed by...
Apple’s next innovation to intimidate Asia
If anything can be said about Apple products, it’s that they are game changers. This week, the widely publicised Apple Developers’ Conference, which began...
Indonesia gets first ever Apple store
Gadget giant Apple will launch its first ever Apple store in Indonesia after it received approval from Indonesia's Investment Coordinating Board to open a...
Foxconn postpones Indonesia investment
Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Hon Hai Precision Industry Ltd, or Foxconn, has delayed its huge investment in Indonesia, according to the country's industry minister MS...
Apple to launch cloud for iTunes
Apple has recently moved forward in their effort to provide iTunes through a cloud, allowing one to synch his iPod, iPhone, and computer through...
Samsung unveils Galaxy S II South Korea
South Korean mobile phone users will get an advance chance to purchase Samsung’s new smartphone, the Galaxy S II, before its worldwide debut in...
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Thailand, Singapore most vulnerable to potential US recession
Southeast Asia could be seriously affected in case the US falls into recession, but some countries would be more badly hit than others, economists...