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kasikorn
Finance
2 min read

KBank joins rush to tap postal network in Thailand

Kasikornbank (KBank) and Thailand Post, a state-owned enterprise, yesterday sealed a business deal that saw one of the country’s biggest banks appoint the postal operator as a banking agent. KBank became the first of the large banks to enter such an…

facebook clickbait
General
1 min read

Facebook fighting a war against clickbaiting posts

Facebook will this week begin demoting news feed posts from people and pages that use clickbaiting to get greater reach. In what it describes as an effort to promote more meaningful and authentic conversations on the platform, Facebook staff have detected…

Australia Post
Logistics
2 min read

Australia Post launches services hub

Australia Post is looking to draw a line under concerns that retailers are finding it increasingly hard to compete with the scale of global competitors, announcing a partnership with fintech company AlphaPaymentsCloud that promises to bring traders an…

Australia Post
Logistics
3 min read

Australia Post appoints new MD and group CEO

Ex-Blackmores chief, Christina Holgate, has today been announced as the new chief of Australia Post effective from October, after a ‘global search that identified her as the outstanding candidate’ to lead the company in its transformation program. Holgate…

NEC HK Post
Logistics
1 min read

NEC updates postal automation system for Hongkong Post

In recent years, Hong Kong has witnessed a rise in the number of postal items addressed in traditional Chinese characters. This has in turn boosted the need for automated sorting and processing of addresses written in traditional Chinese characters in…

Australian Post
Logistics
2 min read

Asian postal services adapt to post-mail era

With the pre-Christmas rush at its peak, a serpentine network of conveyor belts at Singapore Post’s new logistics centre moves parcels destined for addresses across the world in time for the festive season. It is a scene repeated in sorting offices around the…

Chinese new year 2015
General
3 min read

Worst post-Lunar New Year sell-off in 22 years

The Hong Kong stock market saw the worst post-Lunar New Year session in 22 years on Thursday, a day after U.S. Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen confirmed fears of a global slowdown in her testimony to Congress. Yellen raised the likelihood that U.S.…

thai post office
E-Tailing
2 min read

E-business lifts Thailand Post

A man walks past red postboxes outside the Thailand Post branch at Government House. The booming e-commerce market has spurred greater demand for the state enterprise’s express parcel service, despite continued issues with mishandled packages. CHANAT KATANYU…

Postie bike Thailand
Logistics
2 min read

Thailand Post ‘s logistics arm aims to be Indochina hub

Warakan Srinualnad, chief executive officer of Thailand Post Distribution, said yesterday that the company aimed for Bt400 million in revenue in 2015 and expected to keep growing at 10 per cent per year. The company will expand to cover the whole Indochina…