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Thailand’s internet users set to double

Far from being a land of ascetic Buddhist norms, today Thailand is one of the most connected countries in the region. As of July 2013, Thailand’s internet population stands at 26 million people, an...

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Indonesia’s president scores high on social media

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono made it to a celebrity on Twitter where he has gained nearly 2.7 million followers as of July 6 for his account @SBYudhoyono, which was heavily used during...

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Squeeze-out in cyberspace: Facebook vs. ASEAN social media

Southeast Asians love Facebook. Indonesia has 64 million total Facebook users, Bangkok is the city with the most Facebook users per capita and Vietnam has the fastest rate of people joining Facebook in...

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Twitter adds abuse-reporting function

Twitter announced on July 29 that it will now be easier for users to report harassment and abuse from other users. This announcement comes after a shocking high-profile episode in which a British...

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Thailand cracks down on Facebook users

As the government braces for more political protests this week, police in Thailand have charged four people with causing panic by spreading rumours of a military coup on Facebook. The tense atmosphere...

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Sina Weibo starts Southeast Asia expansion

The popular Chinese microblogging website Sina Weibo, often seen as a Chinese hybrid of Twitter and Facebook, has launched a company called Trend Media to expand to Singapore and Indonesia, targeting...

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Teckler: Content sharing as a business model

Teckler is a web portal that represents an innovative way in which users and a publishing platform based on advertising partner together, giving life what it says is “a real Internet 3.0 experience.”...

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Heartbreaking Thai commercial goes viral (video)

An amazing TV commercial by Thailand’s mobile phone operator True Move has warmed the hearts of more than 1.5 million viewers in four days after it was released on Youtube on September 11. The...

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A government that delivers

Interview with Dr Ali Hamsa, Chief Secretary, Government of Malaysia The post A government that delivers appeared first on Investvine.

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Indonesia’s First Lady gets criticised for comment

“Stupid”. This was the comment left by the wife of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on October 18 after an exchange on the online photo-sharing social media service, Instagram. Kristiani...

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Lao government to regulate social media

The Lao government is drafting regulations to oversee social media and ensure Internet users use the sites “in a responsible manner”, Ministry of Post and Telecommunications E-Government Center...

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Facebook goes face down again, users disgruntled

Problems with slow-loading pages, profiles and photos not working on Facebook along with complete timeline outages started to be reported from November 8 in the morning local time around the world and...

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Smartphone protest apps go viral in Thailand

Thai anti-government protesters are taking social media to a new level: During the week-long street rallies to oust the government of Yingluck Shinawatra, smartphone applications have been created to...

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Malaysia prepares for New Year’s Eve protests

Malaysian authorities are on high alert as they prepare to crack down on anyone participating in a street rally calling for an overthrow of the government. The protests are planned for New Year’s Eve...

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Religious row fuels Sarawak-Malaysia separation talks

Discussion are heating up  on several social media channels set up by residents of Sarawak, as well as Sabah, over separation talks from the rest of Malaysia fueled by growing anger among the Christian...

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Singapore, Norway, UAE lead in digital government

A new comparative study by Accenture has found that Singapore, Norway and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) rank first, second and third, respectively, among 10 countries in their use of “digital...

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Hacker group challenges Singapore government

Internet hacker group Anonymous has amped up awareness in response to criminal proceedings against Singaporean hackers connected to the group. On February 9, 2014 at 8am in Singapore, the group...

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Facebook’s growth strategy for Asia-Pacific

Facebook’s goal this year in the Asia-Pacific region is to continue to focus on marketing growth in four key segments: brand, direct response, local businesses, and developers, Dan Neary, vice...

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Social media frenzy around flight MH370 (graph)

Netizens have become extremely active on social media since Malaysia Airways flight MH370 disappeared on March 8. See below an infographic that details the Internet frenzy. The post Social media frenzy...

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Is The Islamic Economy Focused On People?

It’s amazing how little we actually focus on ‘people’ in business in spite of the fact that it is people who make everything happen. An organisation exists because of its staff, partners, customers and...

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Mashreq launches debut workshop for SMEs in the UAE

Mashreq, one of the leading banks in the UAE, has announced a unique partnership with Arabian Business StartUp Magazine, designed to offer aspiring entrepreneurs, start-up business founders or SME...

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Investors in Myanmar scared off by Buddhist nationalists

Myanmar’s rising Buddhist nationalism is taking an economic turn. Qatar’s Ooredoo, which is scheduled to launch its mobile-phone service in Myanmar this July, has been subject to a growing wave of...

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Smartphone-crazy Thailand’s growing problem with online junkies

Thailand is one of the most smartphone-crazy countries in Asia, if not in the world, with statistics saying that Thais are spending an average of 2.5 hours a day on their device, with the most heavily...

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The digital rubbish collectors of the Philippines

Have you ever wondered why user-generated Internet sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and the like are so “clean”? So appropriate for family use? Largely free of nudity, blood and gore,...

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Internet economy in Southeast Asia to grow to $50 billion this year

The online economy is expected to grow substantially in Southeast Asia, a region which is already the world’s third largest in terms of the number of Internet users behind China and India, currently...

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Facebook defensive after Myanmar civil groups blast CEO Zuckerberg

Facebook apologised on April 6 to Myanmar civil society groups who took issue with the social media network’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s defense of the platform’s record on curbing hate speech roiling the...

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Filipinos spend more than ten hours online per day – world record

The Philippines are topping the global country ranking of Internet usage per day with an average ten hours and 2 minutes of screen time. The country was joined in the top five by Thailand and...

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Vietnam, Laos enter cooperation in cyber security, e-government

The governments of Laos and Vietnam agreed to enter a cooperation for the development of cyber security and e-government solutions and continue their cooperation in postal services. The commitment was...

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Thailand develops first home-grown virtual influencer

A Thai company has created the country’s first “virtual influencer,” a new species of fictional computer-generated personalities that are replacing real-life influencers on social media. AI Ailyn,...

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Junta-induced Internet outages cost Myanmar $2.8 billion in economic damage

Internet outages orchestrated by Myanmar’s military junta to curb nationwide protests against the February 1, 2021 coup d’état resulted in economic damages for the country of $2.8 billion last year....

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