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31-Jan-18 E-commerce in Singapore comprises 5% of total retail. However, the number is lower in other ASEAN countries: 3% in Indonesia, nearly 2% in Malaysia and Thailand, and 1% in Vietnam and the Philippines. [image: Credit Suisse / Singapore Business Review]
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24-Jan-18 Alibaba's Taiwan Entrepreneurs Fund is a RMB2.2 bn fund to support startups in Taiwan accessing e-commerce customers in new ways. Asia’s e-commerce industry is projected to grow by 12% annually, and to be worth over USD2.1 tn by 2021. [image: Technode]
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24-Jan-18 Thonburi Healthcare Group, Thailand’s top-performing health stock in 2017, will open a USD75 mn, 200-bed hospital in Myanmar in June 2018 as part of a USD253 mn investment to expand services in Thailand and Southeast Asia. [image: Bloomberg]
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15-Jan-18 ASEAN nations are widely expected to adopt QR systems as a leading method of payment. However, they still a long way from emulating China and Japan’s adoption of the codes, as they lack standardisation and acceptance by banks. [image: ASEAN Today]
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03-Jan-18 Indications are that patients in Thailand will have to pay a portion of their medical expenses when the National Health Security Bill is passed, changing the current universal healthcare scheme that offers most medical services free of change. [image: The Nation]
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