Tag: Asia

The landscape of venture capital (VC) funding in Asia underwent significant shifts, reflecting both challenges and opportunities

Fintech Unicorn Airwallex seems to continue to go from strength to strength; the startup managed to complete its largest funding round (US$160M) mid-pandemic and has recently introduced WeChat Pay as part of its payment options, opening up the Asian marketplace to Australian business. The Melbourne-founded global leader was also recently recognised – in November last […]

There has never been a better time for Australian companies to expand into Asia. Today, China is Australia’s largest trading partner for both imports and exports. Opportunities abound, as China now has the world’s largest middle class population which leads it increasingly towards a market for high grade goods and services. For example, China is […]

The finalists of the 2016 Telstra New South Wales Business Women’s Awards have been announced, with mining engineer and motivational speaker Turia Pitt (pictured above) among the 20 nominees. Pitt, a finalist in the Young Business Women’s Award category, will join C-level executives, entrepreneurs, for-purpose sector professionals and others at the Awards Gala Dinner in […]

Titled Passing us by, the report included a survey of over 1,000 Australian businesses and highlighted the lack of businesses taking advantage of the opportunities the region has to offer.

Australian SMBs are being urged to build new trade and export relationships in southeast and central Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

With Tokyo named the host of the 2020 Olympics, and the Japanese PM pushing growth, here’s five reasons why exporters should take another look at Japan.

Senior finance executives from major corporations across Australia and Asia have the brightest outlook for economic recovery worldwide.

In a speech presented at the Asia Society AustralAsia Centre annual dinner, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd spoke of developing an Asia-Pacific regional community by 2020 due to the Asian region’s increasing global significance. “We need to have a vision for an Asia-Pacific community, a vision that embraces a regional institution which is able to engage […]

Projected growth of ICT spending in Asia is 10.5 percent per annum until at least 2011, according to figures released by Austrade. “There’s been a significant growth in Australian exports of ICT goods and services to Asia over the past three years,” says Peter Harrison, Austrade national manager for ICT. “In 2006/07, Australia’s ICT exports […]