China’s Pinduoduo quietly expands ecommerce operations in Hong Kong, wooing consumers with bargains and direct shipping

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Pinduoduo has began accepting Visa plus Mastercard directly on the platform and now provides direct shipping in order to Hong Kong, bypassing freight forwarders. The social ecommerce platform remains largely unknown within the city, which this hopes to change since competition with Alibaba, JD. com as well as others ramps up abroad. Learn full story Continue Reading

‘No intention of moving’: Jetstar says it is ‘extremely disappointed’ with Changi Airport’s decision to relocate airline to T4

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SINGAPORE: Jetstar Group on Friday (Jul 22) said it has “no intention of moving” to Changi Airport’s Terminal 4, a decision the airline said was made unilaterally by Changi Airport Group (CAG). Jetstar Asia mainly operates out of Terminal 1 at Changi Airport, with limited arrivals at Terminal 2.  In aContinue Reading

COE quota will be based on rolling average of deregistered vehicles over 2 quarters to reduce volatility: LTA

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SINGAPORE: The method designed for computing the quarterly quota for  Certificate of Entitlement (COE) bidding will be altered from the August soft, the  Land Transport Authority (LTA) announced on Friday (Jul 22). This is to “reduce the particular quarter-on-quarter volatility of COE supply while being responsive within returning the COEsContinue Reading