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Insights
30-Oct-18 There are now 7.5 mn sqm of modern retail in Bangkok, including department stores, shopping centres, big box stores and other new formats. E-commerce accounts for less than 1 percent of total retail in Thailand but is growing rapidly. [image: Retail In Asia]
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10-Oct-18 The future of brands like Chanel, Gucci and Prada in China may lie in cities like Hohhot, 10 hours by rail from Beijing. In such cities, with no luxury stores, buyers are twice as likely to make purchases online. [image: Shutterstock]
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01-Oct-18 Thai officials believe charging for plastic shopping bags could help greatly to cut the amount of plastic used in the kingdom, which has been rated as one of the worst sources of plastic in the world's oceans. [image: AFP / Romeo Gacad]
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Events
GGM's head of Financial & Business Services, Tom MacDonald, has been invited to speak about payment market trends in the Middle East at the Commercial Payments International Middle East & Africa Symposium in Dubai on 6-Nov-18. Tom will use GGM's proprietary payments market data to compare the Middle East with other world regions, and identify opportunities and threats throughout the payment ecosystem. [Image: Commercial Payments International]
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18-Sep-18 Alibaba chief executive Daniel Zhang is banking on the company's New Retail model, where online and offline retail are integrated, allowing customers of Alibbaba's chain of Hema supermarkets to buy online from the chain's physical stores. [image: South China Morning Post]
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