ByteDance lifestyle app Lemon8 sees popularity surge in the US as TikTok faces sell-or-ban ultimatum

Lemon8, which has been described as a cross between Instagram and Pinterest, is a content-curation platform featuring lengthy blog-style posts that emphasise photos over videos. Users can browse, record and engage with popular content that includes fashion, travel, food and health. It has been the most downloaded lifestyle app on Apple’s App Store in the … Read more

Foreigners spend 700% more on Alipay in China over Labour Day holiday as inbound tourism slowly recovers

The number of visitors – from 15 countries across Europe and Southeast Asia included in China’s visa exemption scheme – who used Alipay during the holiday was up fourfold this year, according to Ant. 13:33 Tourism trouble: post-pandemic hurdles of China travel Tourism trouble: post-pandemic hurdles of China travel Since the middle of last year, … Read more

Opinion | Southeast Asia cannot be a bystander amid escalating global crises

This fuzziness is not new of course. The securitisation of global economic networks stretches back decades with the United States wielding tools including dollar weaponisation and trade sanctions, as well as using capital for geopolitical gains. China’s past economic coercion of Australia and Vietnam is simply a borrowed play by a different team. Unsurprisingly, as … Read more

Apple adds suppliers in China despite efforts to spread out production, underscoring country’s major supply chain role

Apple added eight Chinese suppliers and removed four contractors on the mainland during its past financial year ended September, the first time since 2021 that the US tech giant introduced more suppliers from the country than it cut, according to its newly published supplier list. Despite Apple’s recent efforts to diversify its supply chain and … Read more

Backpacker travel tips for beginners in Southeast Asia: where to eat, who to avoid, what clothes to pack, and much more

Firstly, pack light. You’ll be living in T-shirts, shorts and flip-flops most of the time and you can easily pick up cheap clothes in Southeast Asia. You certainly won’t need to take a coat, although a long-sleeved shirt will be useful for when the air conditioning is turned up to 11 (shopping malls, buses, restaurants, … Read more

Opinion | In embracing AI, Southeast Asia must consider sobering climate costs

By coincidence, two days before the UN resolution was adopted, the World Meteorological Organization released its annual State of the Climate report. It confirmed last year as the warmest on record and was an indictment of just how much damage human activity continues to wreak on the environment, with records broken again for greenhouse gas … Read more

Tech venture capital firm GGV’s Asia business weighs a foray into private debt after split from US counterpart

The Asia partnership, which is led by Jenny Lee and Jixun Foo in Singapore, has been rebranded as Granite Asia. Its name comes from Granite Global Ventures, GGV’s original handle when the firm was founded in 2000. Singapore-based Granite Asia is headed by senior managing partners Jenny Lee (above) and Jixun Foo. Photo: Bloomberg The … Read more

ByteDance-owned Douyin launches stand-alone shopping app in China, heating up the competition against Alibaba, JD.com, PDD

Douyin Mall was launched last week as a downloadable app for Android users in mainland China, the world’s largest smartphone market. An Apple iOS version of the app was not released as of Tuesday. The new app serves “as an extension of the Douyin platform, designed to elevate the overall shopping experience of [its] existing … Read more

The dark side of Japanese nightlife, Taiwan’s forgotten disco era, beach clubs in Bali: 6 weekend reads you may have missed

From the Japanese vice clubs tricking women into sex work to why 2024 could be Southeast Asia’s year for tourism, here are stories you may have missed over the weekend. Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Pioneer Newz is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the … Read more

Opinion | Plant-based meat’s success in Asia boils down to cost and outreach

For starters, consider which survey respondents were most enthusiastic about plant-based meat. Vegetarians? No. Those reducing their meat consumption? No. In all six markets featured in the study – Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines – the consumers who expressed the most enthusiasm for plant-based meat were the people who eat conventional meat … Read more