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Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of the Chinese telecom giant and daughter of its founder Ren Zhengfei, was detained in the Canadian city on a US warrant in late 2018. Her arrest put the 47-year-old at the center of the US and China's battle over Huawei's growing global reach. Hearings into whether she can be extradited to the United States will begin on January 20 in Vancouver, in a case with potential repercussions for ties between the US, China and Canada.
Telenor Group has announced its new Chief Executive Officers in three of its Asian subsidiaries- Telenor Myanmar, dtac in Thailand and Grameenphone in Bangladesh.
As part of its extensive Corporate Social Responsibility actions and acknowledging the social contribution of the Daw Khin Kyi Foundation, Ooredoo Myanmar donated two fully equipped Emergency Rapid Response Vehicle units to the foundation on January 13, 2020. The handover ceremony was held at Daw Khin Kyi Foundation at University Avenue Road, Yangon and on behalf of Ooredoo Myanmar, Tint Naing Htut, Head of Corporate Communications handed over the ambulance vehicles to representatives from Daw Khin Kyi Foundation.
Digi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd, one of the major mobile service providers in Malaysia, recently collaborated with Malaysia Airports and Panorama Langkawi to showcase the country’s first ever real-time virtual tourism experience, powered by Digi 5G technology. The venue for the demonstration was organised at Langkawi International Airport (LGK).
Recently, Huawei launched its inaugural Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) Innovation Bootcamp in Singapore, where aspiring students from National University of Singapore (NUS), Temasek Polytechnic (TP) and Singapore Polytechnic (SP) came together to learn, experiment and explore AIoT technologies and applications.
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Malaysia’s telecommunications industry is one that is simultaneously rich in history and revolutionary in its plans for the future. From the moment the first telegraph line was laid in Kuala Kangsar connecting the British Resident to the Deputy British Resident in Taiping in 1874, the country’s telecommunications field has undergone multiple metamorphoses to become the industry powerhouse it is today; effectively being one of the first few countries in Asia to fully embrace the inevitable changes that come with an evolving communications sector.
There has never been a better time for communications service providers (CSPs) to deliver Unified Communications (UC) services to businesses of all sizes. The global UC market is changing and growing rapidly as business users are more mobile than ever before and have higher expectations for advanced communications capabilities. These changes are creating new opportunities for CSPs to meet the needs of businesses today.
Agriculture has played a major role in the birth and expansion of human civilisation for tens of thousands of years. With each millennium that passes, humans have found new and innovative ways to further develop the process of farming, harvesting and livestock domesticating in order to achieve maximum output for the continuous survival of their kin. This principle is in no way any different from what we are currently facing now in the digital era, albeit with a little help from 21st century technology.
