This Week in Asia Episode 21: This Week in China

TWiA-logo Every big news is about China this week with Gang Lu, Founder of Mobinode coming in as our guest together with the TWIA crew to chat first about Google’s imminent departure from China and providing the perspective from the Great FireWall of China which the rest of the world missed. We also discussed the two alternative views on QZone, followed by some local stories about Facebook’s new job listing in Malaysia and mig33′s mobile chat service taking the emerging markets by storm.

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This Week in Asia Episode 20: Don’t leave your baby behind

TWiA-logo The TWIA crew is back without Mike Foong tonight. We talked about a few events that rocked Singapore from the glitzy gala dinner for the SCS IT Leader Awards to the Google Analytics Masterclass happening in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. With investors centering in Singapore, we cover the Asian Business Angels Forum and iMatch Conference 2010 (with SGEntrepreneurs’ new event “In Bed with …” series. After that, we get back to the news of the day, with the Google-o-meter shifting to staying, Baidu’s shares dropped, the new iCity in Malaysia and finally the unfortunate incident of a South Korean couple leaving their real baby starve to death while nurturing a virtual one.

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This Week in Asia Episode 19: The Thai-Malaysia-Singapore Nexus

TWiA-logo Benjamin Scherrey, the Chief Architect from Proteus Technologies from Thailand joined us with the TWIA crew without our host John Lim. With Daniel Cerventus taking over the helm of the moderator, our discussion started with recent tech events such as the Google Android Developer Conference and the preview of Nokia N900 event. We continued with the growing numbers of Facebook users in Asia and chatted about Baidu’s new Hulu clone – Qiyi and also Plug and Play center’s entrance into Malaysia. Of course, we have Ben Scherrey sharing the story behind the Nexus Project, his thoughts on the Thai tech scene and how the entire Southeast Asia (Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore) are now going to swept by a new wave of foreign investments and mentors from all over the world.

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