2020 will be about bringing health care to everyone in an easily accessible way, using tech to solve problems, and the year medical marijuana finally jumps off the diving board in Asia Healthcare has already come a long way in Asia. Regarded as one of the most populous continents in the world, the healthcare infrastructure has taken a big leap from the days of hours-long waiting periods to see a medical practitioner, and traveling to European countries for expert medical care. Education,...

'Kawaii' is not a fad, or a subsculture in Japan - it's a social fabric William Shakespeare is not ‘cute’. In fact, the word ‘cute’ did not exist when the bard penned Hamlet or Othello, and it wouldn’t show up in the english language until the 1930s. But saunter down Tokyo’s famous Takeshita Street in Harajuku district, and you will be hard pressed to find another word that could sum up the bombardment of moon-faced, round-eyed, rosy-cheeked cartoon characters that lovingly invite you into...

Entrepreneur Asia Pacific spoke to GrabFood's head of business development and partnership about new food trends Bubble tea and roasted, premium coffees, among other beverages, are seeing a huge uptick in online orders placed between lunch and dinner, as peckish customers look to satiate their midday hunger pangs, Saad Ahmed, head of business development and partnership at Singapore unicorn Grab’s food delivery platform told Entrepreneur Asia Pacific in an interview, adding the growth in...

Sales across Alibaba's platforms crossed last year's $30.45 billion (213.5 billion yuan) record The 11th edition of Alibaba's Singles Day shopping festival set a new record of $31 billion in sales in 2019, as shoppers hunted for deep bargains on consumer items from clothes and cosmetics to electronic goods and home improvement items. To boost sales against the backdrop of a slowing Chinese economy, as well as trepidation of dwindling demand for goods from the United States because of the...

Singaporeans spent an average of S$150, or $110.19, on online shopping on Singles Day (November 11), 67 per cent more than they did in 2017 and 2018, leading to top e-commerce platforms in the city state registering record sales, an iPrice Group analysis showed. Electronis were the hottest items during the sales day, followed by the home & living category which saw the biggest growth in average spending versus 2018. Singles Day is an annual online shopping festival that was started by China’s...