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[Review] The Rise Of The New East

YoungUpstarts

Beyond Lenovo’s famous acquisition of IBM’s PC business, entertainment conglomerate Dalian Wanda bought American cinema operator AMC Entertainment followed by British yacht builder Sunseeker. Beneficiaries include ASEAN mainland cities like Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.

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Franchises Finding International Niches

The Entrepreneurial Mind

Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Myanmar, Brunei, Cambodia and Laos are all seeing rapid growth in American franchise restaurants. KFC Vietnam (KFCV) currently operates 140 restaurants and employees 4,000 workers. [i]. One of the more active regions for international franchising is Southeast Asia.

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The Story of Techbikers (You can Play a role too)

VC Cafe

A master of operations, Abe can break big projects into small chunks and just get things done, a key skill in an event like this. What I saw in that dream, was a big bike ride, and the idea of Room to Read was planted in my head since that trip to India in 2010. but there was only one problem?—?I I did two things to get started.

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Autonomous Vehicles: The Empty Re-positioning Challenge

Venture Chronicles

This is complicated by the fact that empty containers have to be loaded at ports which are not the final destination, but port operators and shipping companies have developed processes to ensure that empty containers are loaded optimally for weight and unloading of full containers at other ports. None of this applies to cars though.

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