A shortage of capital is the key problem of both Line 1 (Ben Thanh – Suoi Tien) and Line 2 (Ben Thanh – Tham Luong) urban railway projects. The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee is the developer responsible for the two projects. At the Metro Ben Thanh-Suoi…
HCM City’s technology-based programme to control and trace the origin of pork that began recently is encountering difficulties, according to the Department of Industry and Trade. Speaking at a regular department press briefing, Nguyễn Phương Đông, its deputy…
NEC Laboratories Europe has teamed up with four other ETSI members to initiate a new ETSI Industry Specification Group on Context Information Management (ISG CIM), together with the Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC) organization. The ISG CIM will specify open…
The National Basketball Association (NBA) announced Wednesday the fourth NBA Store in the Philippines will open Nov. 24 at the Ayala Center in Cebu City. NBA Legend and Hall of Famer Gary Payton will be on hand to meet and interact with fans at the store…
Online office supply company Service Partner ONE have released the 2016 Coffee Price Index, detailing which cities offer the best value coffee worldwide. The research, which took into account 75 cities from 36 countries across the globe, found that Rio de…
Transport operator SMRT has been awarded the tender for the construction of a public rail project in Bandung, the Mayor of Indonesia’s third-largest city said, a development that has elicited a thumbs-up from analysts. Local media in Indonesia had reported in…
Softbank and its affiliate company, Wireless City Planning, have officially launched the ‘5G Project’. As the first phase of the project, which was announced in Tokyo last week, Softbank plans to roll out commercial services based on Massive MIMO technology…
The Minister of Trade, Thomas Lembong, expects Malang to go global, thanks to its digital technology-based development, and by introducing the world to its potential, especially in creative products. “Malang must go global. I believe Malang and its people can…
Today, more than half of our planet’s population live in urban areas, with millions of people migrating from the countryside to towns and cities in search of prosperity to a point where the world’s urban population has rocketed from 746 million in 1950 to 3.9…