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Sabah tourism got off a great start this year with the resumption of AirAsia’s flights between Hong Kong and here. After nearly three years of suspension due to the Covid-19 pandemic, a direct flight from China’s special administrative region touched down at…
The owners of AirAsia India will rename the low-cost carrier to AIX Connect as the first steps of the airline’s merger with Air India Express gets underway. AirAsia India has officially informed India’s Ministry of Corporate Affairs (NCA) of the impending…
The number of house and apartment transactions in the north and the south in 2022 fell to the lowest level in 5 years, according to report by real estate agencies. The report said that the apartment market in Ho Chi Minh City and in some southern provinces…
Netflix would like to help you stick to your fitness-related new year’s resolutions this year. Starting December 30, 30 hours of video content will become available on the platform, through a partnership with NIke. Reality check: in recent years, the number…
Zwei Wealth seeks to become the family office in your pocket. An experienced wealth manager joins the Zurich-based wealth advisor. Daniel Hug becomes a partner of the wealth advisor Zwei Wealth co-founded by former UBS chief economist Klaus Wellershoff, the…
Tesla has released a new over-the-air (OTA) update for the Model S and Model X which have 16GB RAM. This new update for the 2022 models, now adds some notable new features like the ability to play games from the Steam App Store with cloud synchronisation and…
The talk show “Spread the Belief Program”, organized by HCMC Oncology Hospital with Novartis’s support, has helped the audiences answer basic questions about breast cancer. Breast cancer ranks first among the most common cancers in women in the world and…
SJC gold prices fell 0.15% to VND67 million ($2,805.70) per tael Thursday morning. Gold ring prices gained 0.19% to VND54 million. A tael equals 37.5 grams or 1.2 ounces. Gold prices were little changed in early Asian trade on Thursday, after bullion jumped…
Domino’s Pizza Enterprises is set to acquire the balance of its German joint venture operations for $150 million. The acquisition will be funded by an institutional placement of about 2.3 million new shares at $66.38 per share, indicating strong support from…
If you are messaging a fellow Android user who, like you, uses the Rich Communication Services (RCS) platform that is part of the Google Messages app, you can exchange longer messages, share larger video and image files, get a read receipt, enjoy end-to-end…
It appears that another app will soon see its demise. One of Google’s plans for the next year is to shut down its dedicated Street View application. The app does exactly what its name suggests: it lets you browse the world’s streets in 360-degree photos…
AirAsia X is increasing the number of its medium-haul Malaysian flights to 44 per week across 10 routes, while Thai AirAsia X will also be expanding its operations to 22 flights a week across five routes in the next two months. AirAsia X has recently launched…
Globe announced it has deployed 252 5G-ready cell sites on the Philippines’ southern island of Mindanao. The telco giant’s scaled-up deployment of 5G wireless technology across the country has yielded 933 cell sites in the first half of 2022. As of June 30,…
KDDI announced it will begin offering Starlink connectivity to its enterprise and civil government customers later this year as part of a deal recently completed. Starlink began offering service two years ago, and this summer it introduced its maritime…
The Finance Ministry said online platforms including Facebook and Google have paid VND5.59 trillion (US$231.6 million) in taxes from 2018 to August this year. In a report sent to the National Assembly, the ministry said the tax was paid by cross-border and…
Takings at the till in Singapore grew faster in May, helped by a low year-ago base and the continued boost from tourist spending after travel restrictions were eased. Retail sales surged 17.8 percent year on year, extending the 12.1 percent growth in April,…
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