Ahead of United Nations Framework Convention of Climate Change COP26 (U.N. COP26), ASEAN member states were already gearing up to transmit clean energy through regional power grid with pilots scheduled for as early as 2022. This project could itself further ASEAN integration strategies and the...
Having added 12 unicorns to its nest in the most difficult period of the century one could say Southeast Asia is perhaps experiencing a boom in investments. Southeast Asia is led by 30 unicorn startups with a collective valuation of US$ 390 Billion is expanding...
Each of Southeast Asian nations has some interesting insights for western mobile gaming developers. While one market has more female mobile gamers, another has a history in online gaming or some even have edge over other ASEAN markets in English proficiency. Thanks to the fast-rising...
It’s quite a bit of a clickbait to say that Google killed the cookie. What’s more apt would be that Google made a landmark move against bad cookies – in favour of user privacy. The truth is, the crackdown is focused solely on 3rd party...
It is going to be two years since COVID-19 in about less than two months and it is not more relevant than now to look at tourism as the “responsible holiday or travel” season approaches us. Reportedly there have been announcements of reopening of ASEAN’s...
Over the last decade or so, buyer behavior has shifted dramatically. A huge majority of consumers increasingly prefer to shop online rather than at traditional brick-and-mortar establishments. The pandemic has only accelerated the online transactions and all the commerce companies across Southeast Asia have benefited...
In 2017, a news report got really popular. The study calculated that Indonesians spent 22 days of a year stuck in traffic jams. Jakarta was, at the time, considered one of the worst cities in the world when it came to gridlocks. The city dropped...
Southeast Asian economies have taken to Industry 4.0 policies to drive digitization but are their aspirations sustainable? That is, whether do ASEAN nations want to aspire for digitalization of process and still maintain status quo on other policies and/or reform and evolve policies for a...
“Never before has it been a better time to go digital”, said everyone from the start of the pandemic and we all saw a meteoric rise in digital uptake in our daily lives. Representatives of Vietnam Government have announced digital governments by 2025. Government’s reliance...
In Q2 of 2020, one of the clothing sites Zalora, recorded two million downloads of its app, about 7-12% increase in share of new customers in revenue. Recently the company’s COO Rostin Javedi said that COVID-19 has changed shopping behaviour and it only looks brighter...
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