• South East Asia

    Samsung Fulfilled its Promises

    SAMSUNG, the largest phone maker in South Korea, is also the third largest in the world. This impressed me and other journalists from 50 countries, when we visited one of its Research and Development (R&D) Centres in 2009. A high ranking official at the press briefing then said, Samsung would…

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  • South Asia

    Samsung Faces Tough Competition in Mobile Phone Market of Pakistan

    Since the low cost Chinese mobile phones have stormed the mobile markets and grabbed a huge share of the market, leading mobile phone makers like Samsung, Nokia and Sony are struggling hard to hold tight to what they have of the market share. Last few years have seen a rapid…

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  • West Asia

    Samsung – Creating Smiles for Tomorrow

    I belong to a generation when meanings were symbolized by icons. For us, peaceful resistance was named after Gandhi, black liberation meant Martin Luther King, fighting for independence was called Nasser. It was the same when we were talking about items we use in daily life. Kodak for the world…

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  • South Asia

    Disgruntled Employess Lead to Change

    Reports have been trickling into newspapers about disgruntled employees of Samsung India. Their complaints about the punishing work culture and exacting overtime rules have rung alarm bells in the top management of Samsung Electronics. According to a recent report, Samsung has announced big changes. It has taken nearly three years…

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  • South Asia

    Samsung: Change Everything but Your Wife and Kids

    A recent visit to the Centre for Creative Economy & Innovation in Gyeonggi province of South Korea was revelatory. Bottom-line: Giant corporates are crashing in ranking. Recourse: Co-operate with innovative start-ups to energise the system with dynamism and growth. Samsung India had increased its sales by 30-40% in the past…

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  • West Asia

    Samsung: People’s View in the United Arab Emirates

    Android devices, particularly of Samsung are the most prevalent in the Gulf and particularly in the United Arab Emirates. Here are some views of people in the UAE using Samsung products. Dalal Mohamed (housewife): I have Samsung Galaxy S6 and I think it is the best phone in the market.…

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  • Central Asia

    IRI Poll: Georgians Maintain Pro-Western Attitudes

    International Republican Institute (IRI) released a poll about political choices of Georgian people between Russia and the West. “According to the poll, 85 percent of those surveyed say they support joining the European Union and 79 percent support joining NATO. Georgians list the European Union and the United States as…

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  • Central Asia

    Saudi FM Visited Kazakhstan

    Adel al-Jubeir, Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia paid his first official visit to Kazakhstan on April 27. Al Jubeir met with his counterpart Erlan Idrissov and president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev. Two sides discussed bilateral relations, economic cooperation, investment and petrochemical development. Erlan Idrissov said, “This is the first official…

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  • Islamic Organisation for Food Security established in Kazakhstan

    Member countries of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) established the Islamic Organisation for Food Security on 28 April in Kazakhstan. The new initiative has been created after the 7th Islamic Ministerial Conference on Food Security and Agricultural Development of the OIC in Astana. Minister of Agriculture of Kazakhstan, Assylzhan…

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  • Russia and China to Increase Military Exercises

    Russia and China announced the increase of joint military exercises in 2016. Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu met with Chinese Defense Minister Chang Wanquan on April 27. The talks were held at the 5th Moscow International Security Conference, TASS reports. Shoigu said: “We highly appreciate a high level of Russian-Chinese…

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