The Vietnamese women's rowing team won two more gold medals in the final round of the event at the ongoing SEA Games 31 in the northern city of Hai Phong on May 11 despite unfavourable weather conditions.
2022 is forecast to be another challenging year for tourism due to the complex nature of COVID-19. The sector must carry out the dual goal of ensuring the safety of tourists while effectively introducing international and domestic tourism recovery programmes.
The COVID-19 pandemic has created motivation for digital transformation process and sped up the adaption of cloud computing in organisations and businesses.
Ride-hailing firm Grab will trial a new service for commuters in central Singapore to book rides only on hybrid or electric vehicles from July 14 as part of its efforts to go green.
The Indonesian-based Gojek will launch car-hailing and e-payments in Vietnam this year, which Grab and the Be Group have offered for a couple of years already.
Vietnam’s general elections have grabbed attention of global and regional media outlets which highlighted the event’s importance to the country, the special circumstances of the elections and the role of the new legislature to the national development.
Singapore's tech unicorn Grab will remain focused on Southeast Asian markets even after it goes public in the US, co-founder and CEO Anthony Tan told Asia Nikkei Review.
Technology startups in Southeast Asia raised 8.2 billion USD last year, down 3.5 percent from 2019, according to the Singapore-based venture-capital firm Cento Ventures.
Indonesia had the largest food delivery service market in Southeast Asia in 2020 in terms of gross merchandise value (GMV), according to a report by venture capital firm Momentum Works.
As Southeast Asian ride-hailing giants Gojek and Grab are reportedly discussing a merger deal, Indonesian officials and experts have warned that a consolidation of such dominant companies may cause a market monopoly.
Ride-hailing firm Grab Indonesia contributed 77.4 trillion rupiah (5.45 billion USD) to the Indonesian economy last year, largely thanks to its food delivery service, while providing gig work for the country’s informal workers, according to a research conducted by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and Tenggara Strategics.
State-owned lender Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI), in cooperation with ride-hailing service provider Grab, has launched a low-interest loan facility for the latter’s drivers and merchant partners who have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Grab Food is the most popular food delivery application in Vietnam with 79 percent market share, a report by Q&Me, an online market research service, revealed.
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