Irene Dong

Irene Dong is a writer and social media producer at Metro Creative Asia.

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Singapore start-up creates ‘bean-free’ coffee from bread, soy and barley

Prefer's process takes around 48 hours to complete, as opposed to annual harvests and an average of five years for fresh...

ARA predicts $400 million boost to Easter spending

Cementing Easter as a family celebration, the 18-34 age group will spend the most on sweets, totalling $800 million thro...

Australian start-up launches smart kitchen bin

“Our vision was to create a kitchen bin that people would be proud to display rather than hide away.”

Aussie entrepreneur creates ‘Uber for beauty, fitness and massage’

Founder Bhanwa Singh noticed that there was a lack of a recognisable brand in freelancing synonymous with beauty, fitnes...

US winery aims to disrupt wine industry with aluminium bottles

Element[AL] found from internal research that there is no perceived flavour difference between aluminium and glass bottl...

ARA predicts BFCM ‘extravaganza’ this year

ARA’s Salesforce report reveals that online shopping traffic is up five per cent year on year but has not resulted in a ...

2023 Melbourne Royal Dairy Awards winners announced

The Melbourne Royal Australian Food Awards recognise and reward excellence in Australian food production.

Retailers boost efforts to redirect unsold stock to those in need

The growing demand for assistance and donated unsold items has corresponded with 12 interest rate increases by the Reser...

New app helps grocers, consumers reduce food waste

After being introduced in the UK in 2019, Gander has already appeared in more than 500 stores there, saving 25 million f...

Asia Pacific to account for 85 per cent of global chatbot spend in future

ChatGPT has significantly lowered the cost of implementation of chatbots for smaller retailers.