Media

As society becomes increasingly digitized, it is a common thing technology has become a part of our daily lives. Can you imagine not touching your laptop or PC on a normal working day? With sites such as Lowyat.net in Malaysia, we don’t have to be techies to keep up to date with the latest releases, whether software or hardware. About Lowyat.net Lowyat.net began as a forum for PC hardware geeks to share information about the latest PC-related products and guides. As the forum grew into the community that it is…

Public relations and marketing practitioners who like to catch up with the latest marketing happenings, trends, insights and ideas across the region will be pleased to read Marketing as they see the relevant, valuable and interesting content. Suffice to say, it’s on their regular reading (RR) list! What is the Marketing magazine? Launched in early 2002, Marketing magazine is highly circulated (with a print readership of more than 100,000) and is so far the longest running trade publication in the Asia-Pacific, reaching out to all marketing and advertising related professionals.…

Recently I came across an interesting little write-up that was shared within PR Newswire internal resource centre (which we called HUB) and think that the article contains useful tips that would probably be of interest to many of us, especially if you have PR and corporate communications responsibilities for the UK market.  Even if you have nothing to do with this European market, the tips that are shared in the article could very well apply to your region.  Andrew Woodall who is the author of this write up is the Manager of editorial and multimedia news release teams at PR Newswire…

I have been looking for insights for a session that I will be hosting at the SES Singapore Conference, I want to prepare myself with one particular question I usually get at industry events and client meetings: Can you name a few Asian brands who have promoted themselves well? It is a difficult question to answer – not that I want to be diplomatic, but because some Asian brands are doing better in one area than the other in terms of communications, marketing, branding and more; and because of the heterogeneous media landscape and market…

There’s an interesting debate going on among the expat community in China these days. The conversation is focused on the merits of living in this country and its ebb and flow is a great example of how people in small communities (there are only about 250,000 expats in Beijing & Shanghai combined) speak with themselves and how trends evolve and change as a result. Back in August of 2012, a longtime expat with a great story (and friends in the media) opined in an essay, “You’ll Never be Chinese,” that…