SINGAPORE, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) — Cisco Investments today announced a US $10 million investment into Monk’s Hill Ventures’ innovation fund for start-up companies. This fund aims to drive innovation and technology disruptions across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) by supporting early stage start-ups in companies that have solutions [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) - Trade procedures among the 10 countries forming ASEAN will be simplified, and import regulations will be loosened. The 10 ASEAN countries have signed an agreement that will increase the convenience of companies focused on the export market, with new regulations expected to simplify the trading procedures and remove or reduce [...]
SEJONG, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have agreed to expand customs-related cooperation to fuel trade, the government said Friday. The Korea Customs Service (KCS) said the understanding was reached at the 11th annual meeting of South Korea-ASEAN customs chiefs in Brunei on Thursday. The 10-member [...]
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SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Foreign investment firms are putting out a series of optimistic forecasts for the stock market in 2015, which are overall more generous than those of domestic firms. For example, Fidelity Worldwide Investment, the asset management firm with US$280 billion under management, said in a recent report on the Korean market for [...]
Busan, Dec 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Jang Keun-suk, Korea’s actor and model known as one of the handsomest men in Asia, played host to the First Ladies who gathered at the Busan Cinema Center on December 12 while attending the 2014 ASEAN-Korean Commemorative Summit. It was reported that the three First Ladies were surprised to [...]
BANGKOK, THAILAND, Nov. 27, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) — Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), the worldwide leader in IT, celebrates 20 years of operations in Thailand, having played a key role in digitizing the economy and transforming Thailand. Cisco technologies, expertise and solutions have been embraced by business and organizations in, changing the way Thais’ work, live, play [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean government expands scholarships to attract international elites from the ASEAN member countries. Education Minister Hwang Woo-yeo is taking all the necessary diplomatic steps to invite international students from the ASEAN member states while attending “the ASEAN Plus Three Education Ministers’ Meeting” in Vientiane, Lao PDR, the Ministry of Education [...]
Kuala Lumpur, June 9, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – More than 120 international experts will be present in Kuala Lumpur for the ASEAN Power Week to present and discuss various issues in the power generation industry, focusing on strategic and technical power issues and challenges, the continued growth of the renewable and alternative energy sectors [...]