Director of Amazon Prime Now Asia Pacific Aarif Nakhooda speaks during their launch at Amazon's fulfilment centre in Singapore on Thursday. While Amazon does deliver to Singapore, higher-end services had not been available, such as Prime services which include access to the company's video-streaming service. In Asia, Amazon has largely sidestepped China and focused on India. Frost forecasts online product sales in southeast Asia to grow to $71 billion by 2021 from $16 billion in 2016. Since launching five years ago, Lazada has expanded into six markets in Southeast Asia: Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.

Source: Bangkok Post July 27, 2017 03:33 UTC