Under The Radar
Under the Radar: What should we know about Hongkong Land’s strategic shift besides capital recycling efforts? Its CEO tells us all.
Today we’re going to take you through a company that spent over a century building some of Asia’s most recognisable commercial properties, from the skyscrapers in Marina Bay Singapore to those in Hong Kong’s Central financial district and even the West Bund in Shanghai. With its origins dating bac…
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Under the Radar: (SPECIALS) How is Polar Puff & Cakes spicing up the business as it celebrates 100 years of operations? Its Executive Chairman spills the curry puff flakes.
In this “On the Go” Special episode of Under the Radar, finance presenter Chua Tian Tian hit the factory floor of a company that is turning 100 years old in 2026! Bingo if you’ve guessed Polar Puffs & Cakes! Then called the Polar Cafe, the firm opened the doors of its first outlet on 51 High Stree…
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Under the Radar: How is MongoDB positioning itself for the next phase of enterprise computing?
For decades, software applications were built around a relatively straightforward premise. Businesses stored information in structured tables, rows and columns neatly organised inside relational databases. But the internet has changed everything, with modern applications now expected to process va…
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Under the Radar: (SPECIALS) Why is the “next China” still China? Chairman of McKinsey Greater China explains.
In January 2023, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, several dozen Asia-focused CEOs and senior executives of the world’s largest companies gathered for a private dinner. The executives had commanded operations employing tens of thousands of people, with their supply chains spanning dozens of c…
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Under the Radar: How will artificial intelligence augment the growth trajectory of digital transformation player Temus? Its CEO explains.
Digital transformation has become one of the defining priorities for organisations over the past decade. What began as a push to digitalise customer touchpoints has since evolved into a broader effort to rethink business models, modernise legacy technology, strengthen cybersecurity and more recen…
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Under the Radar: (SPECIALS) What are the long-term consumption trends bolstering white label chocolate giant Barry Callebaut? Its President for the AMEA region spills the cocoa beans.
When you unwrap your favourite chocolate bar from one of your favourite brands, do you know who actually makes the chocolate? You’d be surprised to find out that it may not be the company whose name appears on the wrapper. In fact, some of the world’s biggest confectionery brands like Nestle, M…
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Under the Radar: What should we know about ASUS Cloud’s emphasis on Sovereign AI right now? Its CEO spills the beans.
Some of the world’s most successful technology companies didn’t begin in gleaming corporate campuses. They began with bold ideas exchanged at the simplest of places. Sometimes, that place was a diner offering bottomless coffee and huge slabs of pancakes. For ASUS, that place was a humble coffee sh…
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Under the Radar: (SPECIALS) All about that pair of Levi’s Jeans, the firm’s turnaround efforts post re-listing, and its growth story in Asia
There’s nothing quite like slipping into a sturdy, yet comfortable pair of jeans for work on casual Fridays, or even when out shopping on a Monday night. To understand why, we have to turn the clock back more than 170 years to California during the Gold Rush. Back then, miners and labourers in t…
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Under the Radar: How is visual search and discovery platform Pinterest intending to close the monetisation gap in Asia and how is it utilising AI to optimise advertising reach?
Remember the time when we would scour through magazines and newspaper articles to cut out photos and design ideas to paste on your scrapbooks for an art project? Well, we might not do that physically these days, but millions of us still do so digitally through a platform called Pinterest. And yes…
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Under the Radar: (SPECIALS) How is Cisco helping customers modernise their technology capabilities and anticipating future AI threats? Its President for APJC region explains.
The company that we’re going to talk about today has its beginnings traced back to 1984, when a then married couple from Stanford University helped build the foundation of the Internet by inventing the first-multi-protocol router that helped to link computer networks. If Cisco comes to mind, yes, …
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