Category: Gom góp

TOKYO — Nguyễn Tuấn Anh, 36, may never forget the hard time he went through as a student before he became a director of a company in Japan. Anh came to Japan to study in 2002 on a scholarship programme by Asahi Newspaper of Japan. In order to get free accommodation and tuition paid for…

BANGALORE — When Byju Raveendran launched his eponymous education business in 2011, he took a decidedly analog approach to promoting it. He spoke at packed cricket stadiums across India and traveled overseas to pitch his unique learning method to the Indian diaspora. Aspiring middle-class parents flocked to hear his inspirational talks, where he told crowds…

From tuoitre A grocer’s in Ho Chi Minh City has garnered extremely positive feedback from customers by ditching the common plastic wrap to switch to the more traditional banana leaves, in a bid to protect the environment.   The owner of Tiem Rau Cua Ba, literally “Dad’s Vegeteble Store,” in Binh Thanh District wraps his…

TOKYO — U.S. cities have a firm grip on the ranking of the biggest urban economies on either side of the Pacific, but a power shift lies ahead within Asia, new data from the Japan Center for Economic Research shows. Singapore was Asia’s top city by nominal gross regional product per capita in 2015 and…

The decade-long restoration of an Egyptian pharaoh’s tomb finally ended in January. The tomb of Tutankhamun [toot-ahng-kah-MUH N] or King Tut was discovered in 1922. Since then, it has become a popular tourist attraction in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. Unfortunately, the constant entry of people caused damages to the tomb’s 3,000-year-old structures, artifacts, and treasures. To…

HO CHI MINH CITY — Vietnamese smartphone maker VinSmart is entering the European market in a bold bid to become the country’s first globally recognized smartphone brand. But while the company is hopeful it can follow in the footsteps of Chinese makers that have cracked Western markets, snatching market share from the likes of Apple…

SHANGHAI — Chinese e-commerce giants JD.com and Alibaba Group Holding are exporting their logistics technologies related to artificial intelligence and robots. JD.com started to test drone delivery service from a farming village in West Java to a nearby elementary school from January. Drone delivery is expected to bring benefits to Indonesia, which has many islands and some farming villages that lack logistics infrastructure. The…

Every now and then something pops onto my radar that restores my faith in humanity and the way the world is going.  Recently I saw a documentary on television about various tour offerings in Hanoi. Included were several creative options such as food, jaunts into colourful old neighborhoods, tours by motorbike, and even evening beer…

A new study found that eating breakfast might not actually help in achieving weight loss. Researchers from the Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, examined the effects of eating and skipping breakfast on the weight of adults from developed countries. The researchers gathered the data from 13 studies conducted within the last 28 years. Some of…

The Big Bad Wolf book fair has toured cities in eight countries in Asia. (Photo by Yuichi Nitta)   YANGON — A Malaysian seller of affordable English books with a unique business model has branched out to Myanmar to capture demand among the country’s legion of English-language learners. Big Bad Wolf Books, in Shar Alam, outskirt…