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One year in, and IKEA Chiang Mai is throwing a party with big prizes and surprises! March 1 - March 15 Since opening its doors in Chiang Mai, IKEA has quietly become a go-to destination for many residents — whether you made a beeline for the meatball... [1]

AFP More than a decade after Ikea tried to kick them out, the raucous Shanghai pensioners’ matchmaking group that gathers weekly in the furniture store’s cafeteria is still very much alive and kicking. [2]

TOKYO -- Ikea Japan will make a full-fledged entry into internet sales, offering nearly all store items through a dedicated website launching late April. [3]

MUMBAI -- Nearly a decade after first setting eyes on the Indian market, Swedish furniture retailer Ikea is dotting its i's and crossing its t's in an effort to get it right in the world's second-most-populous country. [4]

BANGKOK -- For many in Thailand, eating street food is perhaps more common than cooking at home. And with more delicious, affordable food than you can shake a stick at, who can blame them, especially when both parents work in so many Thai families. [5]

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[1] TH chiangmaicitylife.com · 100% match

One year in, and IKEA Chiang Mai is throwing a party with big prizes and surprises!

One year in, and IKEA Chiang Mai is throwing a party with big prizes and surprises! March 1 - March 15 Since opening its doors in Chiang Mai, IKEA has quietly become a go-to destination for many residents — whether you made a beeline for the meatball

[2] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2024-01-20 · 100% match

Shanghai’s elderly seek romance at Ikea lonely hearts club

AFP More than a decade after Ikea tried to kick them out, the raucous Shanghai pensioners’ matchmaking group that gathers weekly in the furniture store’s cafeteria is still very much alive and kicking.

[3] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2017-02-24 · 100% match

Ikea getting serious about online orders in Japan

TOKYO -- Ikea Japan will make a full-fledged entry into internet sales, offering nearly all store items through a dedicated website launching late April.

[4] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2016-09-22 · 100% match

Ikea plans all-out advance on massive Indian market

MUMBAI -- Nearly a decade after first setting eyes on the Indian market, Swedish furniture retailer Ikea is dotting its i's and crossing its t's in an effort to get it right in the world's second-most-populous country.

[5] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2016-11-03 · 100% match

Ikea takes on Thailand's street-food stalls

BANGKOK -- For many in Thailand, eating street food is perhaps more common than cooking at home. And with more delicious, affordable food than you can shake a stick at, who can blame them, especially when both parents work in so many Thai families.

[6] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2016-08-20 · 100% match

Ikea bets big on India, plans first Hyderabad store in 2017

NEW DELHI -- Home furniture in India increasingly is changing from a nondescript utility item into a classy lifestyle product.

[7] TH mekongeye.com · 2023-07-03 · 100% match

In Vietnam, IKEA-style wind turbines are powering off-grid communities

LAI CHAU, VIETNAM – In November 2019, teachers and students at the Pa U elementary boarding school in Muong Te district in Vietnam’s Lai Chau province had electricity for the first time.

[8] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2018-07-05 · 100% match

Ikea in India -- the price must be right

A witty Indian ad campaign for a small, fuel-efficient car featured a group of visitors being shown around a rocket assembly plant.

[9] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2018-06-23 · 90% match

Ikea's first Indian store to open in Hyderabad in July

NEW DELHI -- Six years after announcing its ambitious long-term goal of opening 25 outlets in India, Swedish furniture group Ikea is ready to launch its first store next month, in the southern city of Hyderabad.

[10] TH www.pattayamail.com · 2013-05-22 · 65% match

MPH to increase the warning label size on cigarette package

Bangkok, 22 May 2013, Deputy Public Health Minister Dr. Chonlanan Srikeaw has announced the ministry new anti-smoking campaign to observe the World No Tobacco Day on May 31, while introducing new law to impose bigger warning label on cigarette packag

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