Economy
Economic Uncertainties Continue to Plague Pakistan and GDP Growth Projected to be Less than 2 Percent
Amid an uncertain economic outlook with high downside risks, the private sector’s participation in economic growth remains unnoticeable as it is not borrowing from banks for business expansion.
Economy
Vietnamese Furniture Products Stand out at Milan Design Week
The Vietnam pavilion at the Milan Design Week is inspired by "Saigon Urban," displaying sophisticated furniture and fine arts products, demonstrating dynamism, creativity, colorfulness and cultural diversity.
Economy
Economic Promotion and Exchange in Thai Nguyen Connects Vietnamese, RoK Businesses
The program aims to enhance the relationship between Vietnam in general and Thai Nguyen province in particular with the RoK, creating opportunities for cooperatives, cooperative alliances, and enterprises of Thai Nguyen and the RoK to have a platform for exchange, connection, and product consumption.
Trend Micro Named A Leader By Independent Research Firm
HONG KONG SAR - Media OutReach - 11 May 2021 -Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global cybersecurity leader, today announced it has been named a leader, in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Email Security, Q2 2021 report. Trend Micro is a leader among the 15 evaluated vendors, scoring second highest in the Current Offering category and tying for the highest score in the Strategy category, two of the three main categories evaluated. Email security is a key layer of security provided by Trend Micro's cybersecurity platform. At the heart of the platform is Trend Micro Vision One, which delivers
CrowdSec raises $5M to transform the global communications landscape with a collaborative solution
PARIS, FRANCE - Media OutReach - 11 May 2021 - CrowdSec, which puts online security into the hands of users themselves and has already helped to identify hundreds of thousands of malicious IP addresses worldwide, has announced a US$5 million round of seed investment from European VC Breega. Making the internet a safer place, and empowering everyone with a rock-solid, free, first line of defense, whether they are individuals, institutions, SMBs or larger companies is the mission of European start-up CrowdSec, who is aiming to rethink cybersecurity by creating a collaborative endpoint detection and response (EDR)
Kaplan Singapore and Murdoch University support youth development in esports
SINGAPORE - Media OutReach - 11 May 2021 - Kaplan in Singapore and its university partner, Murdoch University, announce their joint support for Campus Legends, an esports platform that sees the development of young gaming talents in Singapore. Organised by the Singapore Cybersports & Online Gaming Association (SCOGA) for the third year, this is the first time a PEI is supporting the event. Students from Kaplan and Murdoch University will compete in Campus Legends, an opportunity to help aspiring youth in the gaming industry level up in terms of skill sets. To be held from 12 June to 8 August 2021, Campus
Foreign investors will soon return to Vietnam's stock market: HSBC
According to HSBC, Vietnam’s stock market is expected to continue to grow, helped by strong economic growth and increasing local liquidity.
Love and Art in the Time of Quarantine: Dorsett Wanchai's quarantine hotel guests show off their artistic side for Mother's Day
HONG KONG SAR - Media OutReach - 11 May 2021 - Love knows no boundaries – even in quarantine. While it may be socially-distanced, offering our guests the best experience and a personal touch will always be an intrinsic part of Dorsett Wanchai's culture. We want our guests to be able to enjoy and celebrate all the simple joys and moments as they undergo their 14 to 21 day quarantine with us. For Mother's Day, Dorsett Wanchai prepared a drawing pen and memo stickers for all their quarantine guests to DIY their own "love message" for their mothers and loved ones on the windows of their room. Passers-by
Vietnam’s rice exports to China enjoy surge in the first quarter of 2021
China has moved to increase its import of rice from several Asian countries, including Vietnam, during the opening months of the year.
Vietnamese company selling dried sugarcane juice in US
Vietnam-made sugar-cane juice and freeze dried sugarcane juice has just been patented in the US market.
Vietnam has big plans for infrastructure: Barron’s
barrons.com, an US-based newswire, has recently run an article annalysing positive impact of the infrastructure development plan, adopted at the 13th National Congress of Communist Party of Vietnam, on the Southeast Asian country’s financial market.
DHL Delivers First Batch of Pfizer Covid-19 Vaccines and Diluents to the Philippines
Rigorous planning and testing were undertaken by DHL to ensure supply chains support the vaccine's stringent temperature requirements MANILA, PHILIPPINES - Media OutReach - 10 May 2021 - DHL Express, the world's leading express service provider, today announced the successful delivery of Covid-19 vaccines to the Philippines. DHL Express arranged the arrival of the vaccines on a cargo flight from Belgium to the Philippines. At the same time, the diluents for the vaccines were delivered from the manufacturing site in the United States to an accredited warehouse in the Philippines a day before the vaccines arrived.DHL delivers first
Teledyne e2v Semiconductors is preparing for the future and upgrading its assembly and test cleanroom
Grenoble, France - Media OutReach - 10 May 2021 - On Tuesday May 4th 2021, the first stone was laid to launch the upgrade work of the semiconductors assembly and test clean room at the factory near Grenoble, France. This project is named "GECkO" which stands for "Growth Efficiency by Cleanroom Optimization". Teledyne e2v Semiconductors is a manufacturer of high performance & high reliability electronic components. All products such as microprocessors, data converters, and imagery solutions are marketed worldwide, for industrial, medical, civil and military avionics applications, and space. The actual
Leading.vn maximizes the efficiency and revenue from Digital Marketing in 2021
HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM - Media OutReach - 10 May 2021 - Leading.vn is a young Digital Marketing in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, achieving many awards such as: Best In Search evaluated by Topseos in 2020, #1 Vietnamese SEO Agency voted by the website Clutch.co in 2021, providing online marketing services for small and medium enterprises. Thien Ho, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Leading.vn DigitalAfter researching for a long time, Leading.vn has offered a unique, innovative data-based marking strategy in the Covid-19 pandemic for small and medium enterprises. The digital specialist team has advised and successfully
Mead Johnson Nutrition HK Launches "We CAN Protect the Future" – Formula Cans Recycling Program with HKTVmall and World Green Organisation
HONG KONG SAR - Media OutReach - 10 May 2021 - To encourage Hong Kong citizens to lead greener lives, Mead Johnson Nutrition Hong Kong ("Mead Johnson"), one of the brands under Reckitt Benckiser ("Reckitt"), officially launched its city-wide "We CAN Protect the Future" Formula Cans Recycling Program in early April. Created in partnership with 24-hour online shopping platform, HKTVmall under Hong Kong Television Network Limited ("HKTVmall") and the World Green Organisation ("WGO"), the program aims to raise awareness among the public on the importance of recycling and urge parents to safeguard the future of their children
Vietnam’s rubber exports enjoy surge in first four months of 2021
Vietnam exported 486,000 tonnes of rubber worth $817 million during the past four months of the year, representing a year-on-year increase of 79.6% in volume and 111.6% in value compared to the same period from last year, according to data released by the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
Emerging markets to drive global social networking market revenue to 264 billion USD by 2024 - Frost & Sullivan
BEIJING, CHINA - Media OutReach - 10 May 2021 - Demand from young populations in emerging markets is driving rapid global social networking market growth and a concurrent shift to live video and voice applications. These findings come from new research released by Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company. Frost & Sullivan's report, entitled Social Networking in Emerging Markets, finds that the global live social market—which refers to social networking applications that focus on live video and voice interaction—is expected to show a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 26.6% to more than triple in size
Spicing it up with Cloud Comrade: Baba Products powers digital transformation efforts with successful migration to a cloud-based IT infrastructure
By building a secure, scalable and high-performance cloud-based IT infrastructure, Cloud Comrade equips BABA'S with a strong foundation to support future growth while delivering greater efficiencies, significant cost and time savings.SINGAPORE - Media OutReach - 10 May 2021 - Malaysia's leading manufacturer of spice powder, curry mixes and flour mixes, Baba Products ("BABA'S") has taken another giant leap forward in its digital transformation with the successful deployment of a secure, scalable and robust cloud-based IT infrastructure. Ilaventhan Vijaya - Head of Finance, Baba's Group of Companies Singapore-based
Infinity Ventures, e.ventures are Rebranding Under New Name Headline
TOKYO, JAPAN - Media OutReach - 10 May 2021 - Early-stage venture capital firms Infinity Ventures in Asia and e.ventures in the US and Europe will be rebranding together as Headline. For the last 10 years, the two funds have helped one another on a deal-by-deal basis, including building digital coupon company, Groupon Japan from the ground up, establishing fashion e-commerce site Farfetch in Japan, and investing in Yeahka, China’s largest QR code aggregator which went IPO in Hong Kong in 2019. The relationship between Infinity Ventures, e.ventures, and Redpoint
Vietnamese giant Vingroup stops smartphone, TV production
Vietnam’s biggest private conglomerate, Vingroup, will stop manufacturing smartphones and televisions, focusing instead on producing equipment for VinFast cars.
Canada imposes anti-dumping duties on Vietnam's upholstered seats
Upholstered furniture from China and Vietnam sold in Canada now is subject to country-wide duties of 295.5% and 101.5%, respectively, according to information released by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA).
iPhone loses position in top five in Vietnam
Apple fell out of the list of Vietnam’s five largest smartphone brands in the first quarter, according to Singaporean technology market analysis firm Canalys.
India will not apply anti-dumping duties for Vietnam's artificial fiber
The Trade Remedies Authority of Vietnam received information on May 6 that the Indian Ministry of Finance's decision to not impose anti-dumping duties on a number of artificial fiber products which originate from China, Indonesia, and Vietnam.
