Pandemic-hit Indonesian budget hotel aggregator Airy shuts down
Airy, a budget hotel aggregator startup in Indonesia, has said it is “terminating its agreement with its partners” due to the company’s decision to permanently stop its operation.
As reported by TechInAsia, Airy — a venture built in-house by Traveloka — shared the decision in an email to its property partners, explaining that the COVID-19 pandemic was the main reason for its decision, which has hit the tourism sectors.
The company said in the email that its services will no longer be available after after May 31, 2020. “We have made our best efforts to overcome the impact of this [international] disaster. However, given a significant technical decline and a reduction in human resources that we have at the moment, we have decided to stop our business [activities] in a permanent manner,” Airy said.
BookDoc partners with China’s WeDoctor to launch the Global Consultation and Prevention Center
Malaysia-based healthtech company BookDoc has announced that it is collaborating with WeDoctor, China’s healthtech company, to introduce Global Consultation and Prevention Center (GCPC) which supports English-Chinese bilingual languages.
This brings together medical resources from home and abroad and offers 24/7 real-time online medical services to fight the lethal invisible attacker.
BookDoc and WeDoctor said they will explore partnerships in medical tourism and devise strategies to gain a competitive advantage to reach out to medical tourists from around the globe.
The two companies will also leverage their technology, know-how, and local knowledge to expand borderless healthcare.
Myanmar’s Dakota Ventures allocates US$1M to invest in local startups
Dakota Ventures, a Myanmar-focussed Southeast Asian asset management company, announced plans to invest US$1 million in local startups, targeting “synergistic and millennial-focused startups” that supports education, consumer and infrastructure projects in the region, DealStreetAsia has reported.
Dakota is the company which runs Kaplan Myanmar University College and Gohanya, a central kitchen for Japanese cuisine catering in Yangon. Besides education and food distribution, Dakota Ventures has also invested in F&B equipment and solutions as well as eSports.
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Recently, Dakota partnered with Israeli-headquartered cybersecurity firm Cybint to establish a cyber training centre that will begin construction in June 2020 and targets to provide 500 certified cyber professionals by the end of 2022.
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