KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 22 — Shopee, a mobile marketplace in Southeast Asia and Taiwan, is targeting five-fold increase in orders from the region through its three-day 9.9 Online Shopping Day.

Shopee regional managing director Ian Ho said to-date the company had achieved more than 50 million downloads regionally across seven countries.

"The annualised gross merchandise value is recorded at more than US$3 billion while the active product listings are at more than 100 million, regionally.

"In Malaysia itself, we have garnered four million downloads and more than 150,000 sellers nationwide,” he told a press conference here today on this year’s Shopee 9.9 campaign. — Bernama