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Taiwan turning south
Taiwan has adopted a "New Southbound Policy" eyeing the markets in ASEAN and South Asia.
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Tuesday 23 January 2018
Acer eyeing e-sport hardware market in Indonesia
Acer will launch promotional campaigns to boost gaming PC sales in Indoneisa, the host country of the Asian Games 2018 whose e-sport demonstration event is expected to prompt more...
Tuesday 23 January 2018
Acer seeking higher revenue contribution from Asia Pacific enterprise sector in 2018
Acer saw its revenues from the enterprise PC business in Asia Pacific grow 7% on year and account for 41% of the region's overall sales in 2017, and for 2018 the company will seek...
Wednesday 17 January 2018
New Kinpo Group to construct lights-out factories in Southeast Asia
The New Kinpo Group is planning to establish lights-out factories in Thailand and the Philippines in 2018 and is looking to build another in Thailand in 2019 to help save manual labor,...
Tuesday 26 December 2017
Kinpo to add 2 factories in Philippines
Consumer electronics maker Kinpo Electronics, viewing that production capacities for smart home appliances at two factories in the Philippines will be fully utilized in first-half...
Tuesday 26 December 2017
Southeast Asia tech purchases to see two-digit growth in 2018
Bolstered by the rapid development of e-commerce in Southeast Asia, aggregate tech procurements to be conducted in 2018 by the six regional countries - Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand,...
Monday 25 December 2017
Taiwan to start 5-year AI innovation R&D center program
Taiwan's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) has announced the implementation of a 5-year AI (artificial intelligence) innovation R&D center program with an annual NT$1...
Monday 25 December 2017
Regional integration, digital economy to drive growth of Southeast Asia, says Digitimes Research
After experiencing years of growth plateau, the Southeast Asian region is arriving at a critical turning point, as there are three major favorable development opportunities looming...
Wednesday 6 December 2017
Advantech, Adlink, Synnex tapping IoT markets in Southeast Asia
Industrial computing device makers Advantech and Adlink Technology as well as IT and consumer electronics channel distributor Synnex Technology International have been promoting IoT...
Tuesday 5 December 2017
Computex orgainzers promote 2018 event in Vietnam, Thailand
Organizers of Computex were in Vietnam and Thailand recently promoting the 2018 edition of the Taipei event, which will have a strong focus on artificial intelligence and Internet...
Monday 27 November 2017
Commentary: China actively nurturing unicorns in Southeast Asia
Statistics from US-based research body CB Insights show that non-US unicorn startups commanded a 50% share of total global unicorns as of the end of August 2017, sharply up from only...
Monday 30 October 2017
Taiwan biotech firms urged to tap Southeast Asia market
Southeast Asia offers many business opportunities for Taiwan-based makers of biotech products, according to Lin Chii-wann, who heads the Biomedical Technology and Device Research...
Thursday 19 October 2017
Acer eDC tapping cloud management software biz in Southeast Asia
Acer's wholly-owned subsidiary e-Enabling Data Center (eDC) is actively developing cloud-based management software business in Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia to pave the...
Thursday 19 October 2017
Indonesia, Philippines see largest growth potentials among ASEAN, says DBS economist
Among six major countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Singapore and Malaysia are the best starting conduits for entering the Southeast Asian market; Indonesia...
Monday 16 October 2017
IoT vertical markets in Indonesia: Q&A with Indosat executives
Indosat, the second largest telecom operator in Indonesia and boasting the strongest IoT (Internet of Things) technology capability, has recently launched a smart vehicle fleet integration...
Thursday 12 October 2017
Synnex to set up logistics center in Indonesia
IT and consumer electronics distributor Synnex Technology International has announced a plan to build a logistics center in Indonesia with estimated investment of NT$600 million (US$19.8...