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(Aug 29): Thailand has seen an explosion of internet shopping in recent years as consumers become more tech savvy. And if that’s anything to go by, e-commerce in Southeast Asia is taking off as well.

(July 6): To foretell where JD.com Inc. is going to expand in Indonesia, follow the cell phone towers.

SINGAPORE/SHANGHAI (June 30): Over the past two months, some 1,000 part-time workers for DBS Group Holdings Ltd. have fanned out across Singapore’s famed food courts, trying to entice mom-and-pop hawkers to use the bank’s digital payments service, ca

SINGAPORE (June 13): OCBC Investment is maintaining its “neutral” rating on Singapore’s consumer sector given a lack of broad-based improvement for the retail scene, as well as the continued expansion and growth of e-commerce players.

SINGAPORE (April 20): Alibaba Group Holding has created a loyalty program for online shoppers in Singapore that it may expand to other markets, teaming up with Uber Technologies Inc. and Netflix Inc. to lure customers.

SINGAPORE (March 30): Lazada Group is teaming up with multinational consumer goods giant Unilever in their first e-commerce cross-functional alliance, just days after launching a dedicated online store to bring products from China’s e-commerce platform

SINGAPORE (Nov 2): Alibaba unit Lazada on Wednesday signed an agreement to acquire online grocer Redmart for an undisclosed amount.

SINGAPORE (Oct 12): Singapore Post is on the mend. The national postal service provider on Monday appointed three new non-executive independent directors to its board, in line with recommendations from an independent corporate governance (CG) review.

SINGAPORE (Oct 11): Maybank Kim Eng is keeping its “buy” call on Singapore Post (SingPost) with an unchanged price target of $1.77.

SINGAPORE (Oct 7): Asean courier service providers are about to get interesting with online retail sales poised to hit US$36.1 billion ($49.6 billion) by 2020, translating into a five-year CAGR of 23%.