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China’s cold chain logistics market has been growing steadily over the past several years. According to management consulting firm L.E.K. Consulting, China’s cold chain market grew from RMB 81 billion in 2011 to RMB 181 billion in 2015 representing a growth rate of over 20% annually. Yet, there is still ample potential for growth. China’s […]
The public cloud market is growing at a rapid clip around the world. The worldwide public cloud services market is projected to grow from US$ 182.4 billion in 2018 to US$ 331.2 billion by 2022 representing a CAGR of 16.08% according to research from Gartner. The fastest growing market segment is expected to be cloud […]
Chinese edtech startups accounted for 50% of all global VC investment in edtech, during the period 2016-2018 according to market research firm HolonIQ. Chinese have traditionally placed tremendous importance on education. The gaokao, China’s notoriously tough entrance examination, is known as one of the toughest exams in the world, and gaokao scores are now being […]
Malaysia’s digital economy, as defined by its government registered an average growth of 9% annually between 2010 and 2016 in value-added terms, exceeding Malaysia’s overall GDP growth rate during the period. In 2018, Malaysia’s digital economy grew 6.9% year-on-year to reach RM 267.7 billion, contributing 18.5% to the national economy (up from 18.3% in 2017) […]
Of the few options available to End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) patients, transplantation is the most cost effective and offers a relatively better quality of life. Yet, the supply of transplant organs falls far short of demand and as a result the transplant waiting list has continued to increase over the past few decades. American […]
Chemicals are used to produce almost everything in the world today. The chemical and petrochemical industry represents the largest contributor to industrial energy demand worldwide accounting for about 10% of global total final energy consumption and about 7% of greenhouse gas emissions associated with industry according to the International Energy Agency. Yet, as the world […]
Bangladesh rarely comes to mind when thinking about startups but with a population of some 160 million (which makes it the world’s eighth most populous country) over 46% of which belong to the entrepreneurial and tech-savvy “Gen Z” generation of youngsters aged 24 and below (over 50% of the country’s citizens have internet access and […]
Promising growth opportunities for power utilities as increasing global electrification as a result of rising electricity penetration and usage in emerging markets, greater usage of technologies such as IoT and AI, and the electrification of the transport sector could propel electricity demand in the long term. Global electricity demand could be set to increase in […]
Rising internet penetration, a young population, and rising incomes are pushing Southeast Asian shoppers online, thereby opening exciting opportunities for business and investment. Southeast Asia’s 655 million plus population is increasingly migrating towards a digital-centric lifestyle, going online to conduct day-to-day activities such as shopping, entertainment, payments, and transport. Driven by an expanding middle class and a […]
Wielding a collection of renowned brands such as Laura Ashley and Metrojaya in the retail sector, Corus Hotels in the hospitality sector, Kandos and Tudor in the food sector, and Bandar Springhill in the property development sector, could asset-rich Malaysian conglomerate Malayan United Industries prove to be a diamond in the rough? Malayan United Industries […]
Having revolutionized banking, blockchain, the underlying technology behind Bitcoin, is set to bring change to the multi-trillion dollar real estate industry. The global real estate industry, estimated to be worth trillions of dollars, could prove to be a lucrative industry to disrupt considering the current systems related to land titling which involves mountains of documents into which […]
Demand for Malaysian industrial real estate could rise further driven by a resilient manufacturing sector and ASEAN’s growing e-commerce market. Accounting for just 1.8% of Malaysian property transaction volume and 8.3% of transaction value, industrial properties contribute the least to Malaysia’s property transactions by volume and value according to data from Malaysia’s National Valuation and Property […]
With labor costs rising and regulatory requirements increasing in China (the current Factory of the World), Vietnam is rising as a manufacturing hub and is poised to continue doing soas the country’s advantages of being geographically located close to China and relatively lower production costs entice multinationals as well as Chinese manufacturing companies to relocate production facilities to […]
India’s hotel market is a growth market, and the country’s tourism and hospitality industry which contributed about 9.6% to India’s GDP in 2016, has emerged as a key growth driver of India’s service sector and thereby the Indian economy. India’s hotel industry as a whole has been going through a relatively rough patch over the past few […]
President Duterte’s ‘Build, Build, Build’ (BBB) project, an ambitious infrastructure program that will see US$ 180 billion being spent over the next decade towards building much needed roads, dams, bridges, airports, seaports and more in the Philippines is expected to push Philippines’s infrastructure spending from 6.3% of GDP this year to 7.3% by 2022 helping […]
Tourism is booming in India, and the industry is emerging as a key growth driver in India’s service sector. Much of the growth stems from India’s domestic tourism sector which has seen a steady increase in visits from domestic travelers over the past decade; domestic tourist visits (DTVs) increased 12.7% to 1.613 billion in FY 2016, […]
China, the world’s second largest healthcare market in the world after the United States, is growing rapidly driven by an ageing population, government support, and rising urbanization (which is contributing to an increase in lifestyle diseases such as diabetes and cancer. China is currently the fastest growing major healthcare market in the world with a five-year […]
China is aiming be the world’s leading player in artificial intelligence (人工智能) by 2030 and by some measures, the country appears to be on track. According to a report by CB Insights, Chinese companies seem to be overtaking their US counterparts in AI-related patent applications; the number of patents published in China containing the words “artificial intelligence” […]