By the end of 2018, analogue broadcasting will be taken down in Singapore, which would mean that all TVs would need to be in the digital format. Digital transmissions allow broadcasters to send more signals more efficiently, enabling viewers to receive higher quality images and sound. After a six-year campaign to get Singapore households to …
One unique feature of Internet connections in Japan is that a customer needs to deal with two companies – one is a line provider simply providing infrastructure & the hardware and the other is an Internet Service Provider (ISP), establishing the internet connection. As for the line provider, NTT controls Japan’s top market share as …
The potential of the internet in Japan was first recognized after 1996. Now we cannot survive without internet access when working and even our private lives. Here I will discuss the types of internet access that are available in Japan and how to use them. Main Types of Broadband (High-speed) Internet in Japan: Fiber optics, …
Here are some useful smartphone apps to help make naigating life in the Philippines a little bit easier. Viber Website| Google Play Viber offers unlimited text messages and calls. As long as you have an internet connection and your friends and colleagues have viber installed in their phones, you can contact them anytime you want, …
Here are seven apps we suggest every person moving to China should download onto their smartphone to make life a bit easier! Didi – Greater China Didi is the best app to book a taxi in China. It is recommended to install DiDi and practice using it even for brief stays in China. A VPN …
Malaysia was slightly behind the rest of the world with television transmission only starting on December 28, 1963. Starting with one channel, television in Malaysia has mushroomed into a huge business and now encompasses free to air analogue television (to be phased out in 2017) and digital television, satellite, cable and IPTV. With the advance …
On 5 August 2015 The Australian Taxation Office announced a Data Matching Program with the Department of Immigration aimed at ensuring, inter alia, that visa holders and their sponsors comply with their obligations to pay tax in Australia. Potential risk areas for employers include overseas domiciled sponsors of 457 visa holders, and Australian-domiciled sponsors that …
Shelley Warner, Reloc8 Asia Pacific Group’s China partner, shares updates on Internet access via VPNs, Shanghai ’s wish to attract more international professionals, and news on China becoming the world’s top investment magnet in 2014. The Chinese Great Firewall gets higher Efficient and easy telecommunication is a major concern for expatriates in China and while …
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The good news: it took about eight years for India to hit 1 billion in e-governance transactions and just 55 days to go to 2 billion. The bad news: complete online delivery of services, by the government’s own estimates, is still about a decade away. The ticker on the website that counts transactions done electronically …