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Singapore Business
Finance
2 min read

Singapore Overtakes Japan as Asia’s Richest Market

While Singapore’s net financial assets per capital grew 4.4 percent year-on-year, global economic instability and trade wars are weighing heavily on the global middle class, according to Allianz’s new Global Wealth Report. With net financial assets per capita…

Facebook Vietnam
General
1 min read

Facebook tests new app for prisoner re-integration into society

Some Instagram users have caught on lately that parent company Facebook had something up its sleeve when they started seeing a strange notification in their feed titled “preparing for life after prison with community support.” It turns out Facebook has been…

hm
Fashion
1 min read

H&M apologizes for ‘coolest monkey’ racist campaign

Swedish fast fashion chain H&M has apologised for featuring a black child modelling a garment with the text “coolest monkey in the jungle”, also removing the advertisement and item from stores. H&M was forced to apologise following widespread backlash from…

Healty internet usage
General
2 min read

Vietnam wants a healthy Internet society

The Ministry of Information and Communication urged enterprises to collaborate with the Government in efforts to build a healthy Internet society through advertising only on online channels which comply with established laws. Minister Trương Minh Tuấn issued…

bri bank
Finance
1 min read

BRI Goes Digital for Cashless Society Program

Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) has been revamping its digital banking services as part of its “cashless society” program and in support of the central bank’s Non-Cash Payment Movement (GNNT), a senior BRI official said last week. BRI Consumer Director Sis Apik…