Category: Regional
Zalora preps marketplace launch later this year, calls out for fashionable merchants
Rocket Internet’s fashion e-commerce site Zalora is announcing today that it’s going to roll out its open marketplace across Asia in the first half of this year. [...]
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Firefighters battle blazes in scorching Australia
Lightning strikes ignited more than 250 fires across southeast Australia overnight, officials said Wednesday, as firefighters battled to put out the flames and the country [...]
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China’s Bright Food to buy Australian dairy firm Mundella
China’s Bright Food (Group) Co Ltd said it had agreed to buy Australian dairy company Mundella Foods through its Australian subsidiary, expanding the state-owned [...]
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S. Korea president eying nuclear business on India trip
South Korea’s president arrives this Wednesday in India on an official visit during which she is expected to push for some of the South Asian nation’s nuclear [...]
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Korea in a Pickle over Cambodian Crackdown
Conflicts and crackdowns are great drivers of any rumour mill and Cambodia proved no different over the past two weeks when its government shifted into overdrive and sent in [...]
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Cambodia suspends Russia tycoon extradition
A Cambodian court on Monday suspended a request for the extradition of a Russian property developer wanted in his homeland for allegedly embezzling millions of dollars. The [...]
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Fresh contamination scare for New Zealand dairy giant
New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra faced a new contamination scare Tuesday with the forced recall of nearly 9,000 bottles of cream which had been tainted with E.coli bacteria. [...]
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Tonga cleans up after devastating cyclone
Residents in cyclone-devastated areas of Tonga launched a massive clean-up on Monday, as officials said it was “a miracle” only one person died when the monster [...]
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Australia braces for fire danger as heatwave hits
Australian authorities warned Tuesday of some of the worst fire danger since a 2009 inferno which killed 173 people, with most of the continent’s southeast sweltering [...]
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Mass whale stranding on New Zealand coast
At least 13 pilot whales were beached Tuesday on a remote New Zealand coastline and conservation officials were desperately battling to prevent another 50 from reaching the [...]
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WeChat hopes to conquer Southeast Asia, one game at a time
It seems like the chat app competition has become a battle after all – according to WeChat, the China-based messenger will be rolling out four games for users residing [...]
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Finch century helps Australia thrash England in first ODI
A superb century from opener Aaron Finch helped Australia to a comprehensive six-wicket win over England in the first one-day international at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on [...]
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Japan wants to join India-US naval war games
Japan wants to be a part of the naval exercise that India and the US hold every year to make it trilateral, six years after it was kept out of it apparently because of [...]
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Korea keen on setting up nuclear power plant in India
Keen to enter India’s growing nuclear market, South Korea wants to build an atomic power plant here but India is not rushing into it. The government first wants to [...]
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PH to hold air talks with France, Singapore, N. Zealand
The Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) said the Philippines will hold talks with 3 countries in the first quarter to negotiate or renew air service agreements. CAB executive [...]
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