SINGAPORE (China Daily/ ANN) - Entrepreneurs and venture capital firms view the region as largely uncharted territory offering huge potential and opportunities.
Five countries, including India and Bangladesh, lead the world in solar home lighting systems and the two south Asian nations together account for 97 per cent of the renewable energy market in the region, says an international body report.
Businessman and Indonesia Economic Forum chairman Chairul Tanjung has expressed worry that the fast-growing e-commerce business may worsen Indonesia’s economic discrepancy as it could increase unemployment.
KUALA LUMPUR: Total tourist arrivals to Malaysia this year could jump by over 4% on-year after airline bookings from China to Malaysia surged 72% on-year from March 16 to Aug 31, 2017.
[Viet Nam News/Asia News Network] Malaysian budget airline AirAsia Berhad plans to start a low-cost carrier in Việt Nam, co-operating with local businesses to enter the country’s booming travel market, company representatives told Việt Nam News.
AirAsia signed a shareholders’ agreement with Việt Nam’s Gumin Company Limited, Hải Âu Aviation Joint Stock Company and Trần Trọng Kiên, the owner of these two companies, to form the venture last Friday, which the airline announced in a statement to Malaysia’s stock exchange.
[The Straitstimes/Asia News Network] A designer threatened to post nude photographs of a woman he befriended online, and had never met, when she ended all contact and ignored him, a district court heard.
About seven months later, Mohamed Hirwandie Mohd Hashim stumbled on the 21-year-old's online profile on Facebook.
The 30-year-old created a Facebook account under his previous moniker John Teo, and tried to add the victim as a friend.
The Korea Herald/Asia News Network) National University of Singapore has retained its title as Asia’s best university for the second year in a row, according to the Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings 2017.
Peking University maintained its second-place ranking and Tsinghua University was ranked third. Both of them are located in Beijing.
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology ranked eighth, followed by Seoul National University and Pohang University of Science and Technology.
