Lynas Malaysia wins court battle
Australia’s Lynas Corp saw shares jump as high as 5.1 per cent on March 19 after the Federal Court of Malaysia upheld a decision to dismiss allegations of environmental negligence by a protest movement...
View ArticleEthics in Business: A take on business ethics in the US
Datuk Nicholas Zefferys, a prominent figure in Malaysia's business circles, provides his insights on how businesses are conducted and how he evaluates the general role of ethics in business in the US....
View ArticleJakarta is Twitter capital of the world
While Bangkok is the global number one city in terms of Facebook users, Jakarta has fallen in love with Twitter: Indonesia’s capital contributed about 2.4 per cent of the 10.6 billion Twitter posts...
View ArticleE-commerce: Thailand talking tablets
Launched as a classifieds site 14 years ago, today Tarad is Thailand’s largest e-commerce portal, acting as a platform for countless SMEs in the country’s rural regions to showcase fashion, food and...
View ArticleOur series: Ethics in Business – Where is the education for narcissistic...
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View ArticleTen radical tips to protect data privacy
After Forbes Magazine presented a list of “10 Incredibly Simple Things You Should Be Doing To Protect Your Privacy” that has been much sneered at by the Internet community, with bloggers saying that it...
View ArticleThailand’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...
View ArticleIndonesia’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...
View ArticleSqueeze-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...
View ArticleTwitter 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...
View ArticleThailand 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...
View ArticleSina 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...
View ArticleTeckler: 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.”...
View ArticleHeartbreaking 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...
View ArticleA government that delivers
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View ArticleIndonesia’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...
View ArticleLao 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...
View ArticleFacebook 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...
View ArticleSmartphone 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...
View ArticleMalaysia 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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