247 news items tagged Southeast Asia
LG reportedly looking to sell Vietnam smartphone plant
Friday 16 April 2021LG Electronics is shutting down all smartphone plants and looking to find buyers after announcing its decision in early April to quit its loss-ridden smartphone business, according...
Vietnam expanding local industrial parks
Thursday 15 April 2021The Vietnamese government approved many industrial park expansion projects in 13 of its provinces in the first quarter of 2021 in a bid to accommodate growing investments, according...
eCloudvalley partners with software vendors over digital transformation
Tuesday 13 April 2021Taiwan-based AWS Premier Consulting Partner eCloudvalley has formed strategic alliance with software solution providers such as Salesforce, SAP, Oracle and National Instruments (NI)...
Business opportunities in Vietnam: Q&A with Keven Cheng, Taiwan Trade Center director in Ho Chi Minh City
Thursday 8 April 2021Vietnam has joined the CPTPP (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) and RCEP (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership), and has signed FTAs (free-trade...
TIP helps Indonesian telecom carriers test Open RAN
Tuesday 6 April 2021Telecom Infra Project (TIP), a US-based non-profit organization established in 2016, is helping five Indonesian telecom carriers test Open Radis Access Network (RAN) that reduces...
Regionalizing production gaining importance for ICT players
Tuesday 6 April 2021Production regionalization is fast gaining momentum as an inevitable trend for ICT players, particularly those with heavy investments in China, as clients have increasingly asked...
LSC Ecosystem invited to participate in international forum: Unveiling new opportunities for vehicle electrification in Southeast Asia
Monday 29 March 2021MOVE EV Virtual 2021, the largest international event in the field of electric vehicles in Asia in the first half of this year, focuses exclusively on the hottest trending topics...
WiAdvance eyeing Southeast Asia market
Friday 26 March 2021WiAdvance, a subsidiary of Wistron, is looking to start expanding its presence in the 5G and AIoT solutions markets in Southeast Asia in 2022, according to company president Michael...
PatSnap receives US$300 million in funding from SoftBank, Tencent and others
Wednesday 24 March 2021PatSnap, a Singaporean provider of innovation intelligence, has announced it has secured US$300 million in Series E funding, led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Tencent Investment with...
Taiwan Mobile set to expand business deployments in Southeast Asia
Friday 19 March 2021Taiwan Mobile will expand its business deployments in Southeast Asia through cooperation with partners in e-commerce, digital ads, gaming and other services, as part of its efforts...
Darfon constructing two factories in Vietnam
Tuesday 16 March 2021Taiwan-based Darfon Electronics is building a factory for making keyboards in northern Vietnam and another for manufacturing electric bicycles (e-bikes) in southern Vietnam, with...
Vietnam ships over US$50 billion handsets, handset components in 2020
Monday 22 February 2021Vietnam's exports of handsets and handset components decreased for the first time in 11 years by 0.4% to US$51.18 billion in 2020, according to local media reports, citing data from...
Vietnam industry depends heavily on foreign investors
Thursday 18 February 2021The influx of foreign investment has greatly helped Vietnam improve its local manufacturing. Vietnam, which is able to make not only smartphones but also electric cars (EV), is a...
Ju Teng to set up production base in Vietnam
Thursday 4 February 2021Ju Teng International will set up a production base for making casings of notebooks, tablets and hand-held devices in Nghe An Province, central Vietnam, according to local media re...
Intel invests additional US$475 million in Vietnam
Thursday 28 January 2021Intel announced recently that it has invested a further US$475 million in Intel Products Vietnam (IPV). This new investment is in addition to Intel's US$1 billion investment to build...
Vietnam investment opportunities: Q&A with Wiziin CEO Tien Nguyen
Monday 25 January 2021Many startups are confused about how to find angel investors, while investors are discouraged by the lack of transparency of information about startup investments. Nguyen Ngoc Tien...
Fire strikes Walsin MLCC plant in China
Thursday 14 January 2021A fire broke out at Taiwanese passive component maker Walsin Technology's factory site in Dongguan, China on January 13, but the company estimates no material impact from the accid...
Arcadyan to double capex in 2021 to boost production in Vietnam
Monday 11 January 2021Networking device maker Arcadyan Technology expects to double its capex this year to boost substantially production at its factory site in Vietnam.
Vietnam offers low labor cost
Wednesday 6 January 2021Vietnam is one of three ASEAN countries with the lowest labor costs, based on the current minimum wage of US$132~190 per month, according to Viet Dragon Securities Company (VDSC).
Pegatron acquires land for new plant in Vietnam
Tuesday 5 January 2021Pegatron has bought a piece of land in Vietnam for about VND528.92 billion (US$22.9 million) to build a new plant, which will be ready for production later in 2021, according to industry...
Over half of foreign firms in Vietnam report losses in 2019
Tuesday 5 January 2021Almost 55% of foreign-invested enterprises in Vietnam posted losses totaling VND131.4 trillion (US$5.7 billion) in 2019, according to information released by the country's Ministry...
Vietnam aspires to become industrialized country in 10 years
Thursday 31 December 2020Vietnam is looking to become an industrialized country in the next 10 years, after failing to achieve it in 2020 as it had previously vowed.
Top-50 Vietnam brands see value rise 28% in 2020
Wednesday 30 December 2020Total value of Vietnam's top-50 most valuable brands has gone up 28% this year, growing from US$18.8 billion in 2019 to US$26.1 billion in 2020, according to Brand Finance.
81 million jobs lost in Asia-Pacific amid COVID-19, says ILO
Thursday 24 December 2020The coronavirus pandemic has taken a heavy toll on the job market in the Asia-Pacific region, with an estimated 81 million jobs lost in 2020, according to a new report from the Intenational...
Understanding what customers really need: Q&A with AImazing founder Jun Ting
Thursday 24 December 2020AImazing, founded in 2015, was groomed by Taiwan-based accelerator AppWorks. AImazing, which set up its headuqarters in Singapore and R&D base in Taiwan in 2017, was about to...