Category: Southeast Asia

RHB Bank's new Raya film shows that progress means the same regardless of language

Posted on May 2, 2022

by Teddy Cambosa

The campaign, which is for the celebration of Eid/Hari Raya, aims to shed light on the predicament of refugees in Malaysia.

YouTube to help better interfaith discourse with workshop series

Posted on May 2, 2022

by Kathleen Murata

The partnership aims to help interfaith groups and religious organisations create quality online content to counter online extremism and hate.

HK-based Omnichat’s US$1.8m funding to aid expanding business to SEA

Posted on April 29, 2022

by Teddy Cambosa

Omnichat has raised US$1.8m in its pre-A round funding, which will be used to expand its business to Southeast Asia.

Financial wellbeing platform Payd bags fresh funding to expand in SEA

Posted on April 29, 2022

by Teddy Cambosa

The investment will support Payd to build a mobile financial wellness platform for employees in the Southeast Asia market.

Sun Life MY resorts to special song, music video to celebrate Hari Raya

Posted on April 29, 2022

by Teddy Cambosa

Sun Life Malaysia has released a special Raya song and music video, entitled ‘Lagu Raya Buatan Malaysia’, to join Malaysians in celebrating the festivities.

Conversational AI Haptik ties up with tech firm MDI NOVARE for CX offering

Posted on April 29, 2022

by Kathleen Murata

This will transform CX across sales, customer support, co-marketing, and sales enablement, as well as training with AI-powered virtual assistants.

Astro’s Raya movie chronicles deep coming of age story

Posted on April 29, 2022

by Teddy Cambosa

This year, Astro takes a different approach in this remarkable coming of age Hari Raya movie. The project was done in collaboration with ad agency Naga DDB Tribal.

EZ-Link, Mastercard partner to launch new digital wallet ‘Pay by Wallet’

Posted on April 29, 2022

by Kathleen Murata

Singapore – Singapore-based contactless payment platform EZ-Link has partnered with global payment technology company Mastercard to launch its ‘Pay by Wallet’, a digital wallet product that leverages Mastercard’s ‘Pay by Account’ technology for making contactless and e-commerce payments including recurring...

Malaysia — In its recent Annual General Meeting, the Malaysian Advertisers Association (MAA) has appointed Claudian Navin Stanislaus as its new president, and Javed Jafri as the association’s new vice president. Stanislau and Javed will be leading MAA’s newly-elected council members from Coca Cola Far East, GrabTaxi Holdings, Heineken Malaysia, Mondelez Malaysia Sales, Nestle Products, P&G, and many more. Stanislaus is also the head of communication and consumer marketing for BABA PRODUCTS. Meanwhile, Jafri is the media and digital hub lead for Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos from Unilever Holdings. On the importance of the association, Stanislaus said that the MAA has always played an advocacy role on behalf of advertisers in Malaysia, engaging the various ministries and regulatory bodies, as well as fellow industry stakeholders; from media owners, media and creative agencies and digital players, to ensure that the channels of communication and cooperation are always active in the pursuit for a conducive environment for brands to thrive without compromising consumers’ rights. He added, “The MAA will be reaching out to other trade associations too, and seek opportunities to work together on initiatives that can benefit the industry, especially the SME sector which is critical to the growth of the economy.”

Malaysian Advertisers Association names new president, vice president

Posted on April 28, 2022

by Teddy Cambosa

The Malaysian Advertisers Association has appointed Claudian Navin Stanislaus as its new president, and Javed Jafri as the association’s new vice president.