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China's desire to groom homegrown chip firms has led to a series of multimillion-dollar investments in poorly planned projects, many of which went bankrupt quickly.

Out of bargaining chips: Inside HSMC's billion-dollar grift | KrASIA

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Out of bargaining chips: Inside HSMC&#8217;s billion-dollar grift

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Hui Tse Gan

Fintech is the new applications, processes, products, or business models in the financial services industry, composed of one or more complementary financial services and provided as an end-to-end process via the internet.

Fintech

Four years in fintech and six million users later, Akulaku aims for a piece of Southeast Asia’s digital banking pie.

Fintech startup Akulaku advances on digital banking in Southeast Asia | KrASIA

Fintech startup Akulaku advances on digital banking in Southeast Asia

Live Streaming

Live commerce, which merges livestreaming and e-commerce, is a staple of the Chinese internet. Now, it's about to take on overseas markets.

Kim Kardashian is impressed, but can China-style live commerce conquer the world? | KrASIA

Kim Kardashian is impressed, but can China-style live commerce conquer the world?

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E-commerce is the activity of buying or selling of products on online services or over the Internet. 

E-Commerce

Six key sectors offer us a glimpse of China's post-coronavirus digital future.

China in 2020: Six digital trends shaping the year | KrASIA

China in 2020: Six digital trends shaping the year

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Alibaba Group Holding Limited is a Chinese multinational conglomerate specializing in e-commerce, retail, Internet and technology. 

Alibaba

Logistics is generally the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation. In a general business sense, logistics is the management of the flow of things between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet requirements of customers or corporations. 

Logistics

Daily production capacity of masks has more than quintupled from 21 million to 116 million in China.

How China tackled history's biggest mask shortage | KrASIA

How China tackled history&#8217;s biggest mask shortage

Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. It is considered one of the Big Four of technology along with Amazon, Google, and Facebook.

Apple

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is a Chinese multinational telecommunications equipment and consumer electronics manufacturer, headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. The company was founded in 1987 by Ren Zhengfei, a former People's Liberation Army engineer.

Huawei

Xiaomi Corporation is a Chinese electronics company headquartered in Beijing. Xiaomi makes and invests in smartphones, mobile apps, laptops, and related consumer electronics.

Xiaomi

The Internet of things (IoT) is the extension of Internet connectivity into physical devices and everyday objects. Embedded with electronics, Internet connectivity, and other forms of hardware, these devices can communicate and interact with others over the Internet, and they can be remotely monitored and controlled.

The rapid growth of the IoT sector has drawn in Huawei amid falling smartphone sales.

Hui Tse Gan

Out of bargaining chips: Inside HSMC’s billion-dollar grift

Fintech startup Akulaku advances on digital banking in Southeast Asia

Kim Kardashian is impressed, but can China-style live commerce conquer the world?

China in 2020: Six digital trends shaping the year

How China tackled history’s biggest mask shortage

Huawei’s IoT ambition poses challenge to Xiaomi and Apple