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The new flight is operated daily with an Airbus A330-200. “It’s the perfect time for Qantas to fly to Beijing,” said Alan Joyce, CEO of Qantas. “The China-Australia Free Trade Agreement is hitting its stride and China is on track to become the number-one…
Chemist Warehouse is geared up to target its online Chinese consumer market this weekend, by supporting the Melbourne Chinese New Year 2017 Festival with a Tai Chi Masterclass Series in Southbank, to celebrate the Year of the Rooster. In 2015, the pharmacy…
The Australian big data and analytics market is forecast to grow from $244.1 million in 2015 to $585.1 million in 2019, according to IDC. Banking, retail and government sectors have made impressive strides into the analytics domain with an objective of…
Thirty-nine of the world’s top 250 retailers now operate in Australia, up two from last year. Australian retailers are warned to be extra vigilant, with international retailers set to enter our retail market further in 2017, according to Deloitte’s 2016…
For its first outlet in Asia, Australian tea chain T2 Singapore has launched with a new brew that pays homage to local breakfast staple kaya toast. Its Singapore Breakfast tea is a blend of pu’er (Chinese fermented tea), green tea, coconut flakes and roasted…
The country is focusing more on improving its workers’ skills to meet high demands from developed markets. Vietnam plans to send workers to Australia, Laos and Thailand for the first time this year in a bid to expand and improve its overseas labor force.…
Ulbotech, long established as a key tracking device supplier in a number of market segments and GPSengine, a leading hosted platform service provider in GNSS, Telematics, IoT and Tracking, announced a new partnership to bring support for the Ulbotech range to…
Australian egg farmers have sent the first shipment of eggs to South Korea, to help ease a major shortage caused by an Avian influenza outbreak. Approximately 30 million birds have been culled to stem the spread of the disease, causing a shortfall of around…
Malaysian carrier AirAsia X has upgraded its in-flight entertainment option for Australian passengers. The new Xcite Inflight Entertainment tablet is a Huawei Mediapad 2, equipped with a 10.1″ HD widescreen display, Harman Kardon audio technology and headset.…
Australia’s Telstra and Ericsson have separately demonstrated secure end-to-end encryption over 10Gbps intercontinental link. The companies encrypted data in transit at 10Gbps between Los Angeles and Melbourne, Australia using Ciena’s ultra-low latency 10G…
Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) has unveiled that the first large-scale purchase of an Australian cattle ranch – for beef production – by a Vietnamese company has been made, in the Northern Territory, south of Katherine. The purchase of the US$13.6 million…
Vodafone Australia has promoted its director of sales, Ben McIntosh, to the newly created position of consumer business unit (CBU) director. Chief executive officer Iñaki Berroeta said the new position merges the existing sales director and marketing director…
Australia’s Telstra will introduce assured availability on two of Asia-Pacific’s busiest subsea cable routes, Hong Kong to Singapore and Japan to Hong Kong. The company announced its new Always On service guarantee at the Pacific Telecommunications Council…
“E-commerce has gone borderless, and order fulfillment needs to do the same,” said Charles Brewer, CEO of DHL eCommerce. “Our Australian facility adds another node to our standardized global network of fulfillment centres located in the US, Mexico, India,…
Hawaki Submarine Cable and TE SubCom have completed the route survey for the 14,000km Hawaiki transpacific cable system linking Australia and New Zealand with mainland US. With the successful completion of the survey, the companies remain on track to complete…
The Airport Authority of the Transportation Ministry has terminated the operations of the Tiger Air charter flight from Bali to Australia for failure to abide by regulations. The decision to terminate the Tiger Air charter flight from Bali to Australia was…
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