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Hong Kong’s Honolulu Cafe has opened its first branch in Manila. Renowned for its signature egg tarts with 192 flakey pastry layers (no, we are not sure who counted them!), the cafe also serves its own house-blend of coffee. The new store opened last week,…
The cheese tea bakery, which draws inspiration from the Japanese philosophy of ‘Kaizen’ (a dedication to continuous improvement), opened to Singapore shoppers on December 8. Marking its debut international store opening, Nayuki has teamed up in a joint…
Chinese tea bakery Cheese Tea Bakery Nayuki has launched its first overseas store at VivoCity. The popular brand, credited as a forerunner in pairing fruit teas with soft European-style bread items, is offering a one-for-one promotion to celebrate the…
Central i-City is scheduled to open on January 12 as the largest shopping mall in Selangor’s state capital of Shah Alam, Malaysia. A joint venture between Thai retail property developer CPN Ventures and Malaysian developer I-City Properties, the 940,000sqft…
Ho Chi Minh City is getting a new shopping centre, Central Premium Mall, in District 8, next year. Set to open in the third quarter of next year, the six-storey mall spans 40,000sqm, and is expected to welcome more than 3 million visitors annually. The first…
South Korean convenience store operators have agreed not to engage in cut-throat competition in the latest move to better protect struggling franchisees. A key centerpiece of the voluntary deal calls for CU, GS25 and 7-Eleven and three other convenience store…
October retail sales in Hong Kong rose by 5.9 per cent year on year, more than double the pace of September, which was affected by Typhoon Mangkhut. A government spokesman indicated that growth in retail sales picked up somewhat in October after a…
Thai oil company PTT plans to spin off its Cafe Amazon division and build a coffee chain it says will one day rival Starbucks. The company says it will open 20,000 cafes globally, nearly 10 times the current network of 2300 outlets in Thailand, the…
Promoted by Alibaba in China for more than 10 years, Singles’ Day is now courting Vietnam with great fervor. More than a week before “Singles’ Day’ which falls on Nov. 11, major shopping firms in Vietnam had begun to update their mobile applications with a…
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