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Bringing together the latest business insights and trends of China's tech ecosystem.

China Tech

China’s biggest hotpot chain Haidilao’s ambitious expansion plans land it in hot water. The hotpot chain faces an uphill battle to recovery.

China’s biggest hotpot chain Haidilao’s ambitious expansion plans land it in hot water | KrASIA

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China’s biggest hotpot chain Haidilao’s ambitious expansion plans land it in hot water

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Sea Group

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

‘Stay hungry, stay foolish’: How Forrest Li built the biggest internet company in Southeast Asia. Challenges leaves Sea Group at a crossroads.

‘Stay hungry, stay foolish’: How Forrest Li built the biggest internet company in Southeast Asia | KrASIA

‘Stay hungry, stay foolish’: How Forrest Li built the biggest internet company in Southeast Asia

Autonomous Vehicles is about self-driving. A self-driving car is also known as a robot car, autonomous car, or driverless car, is a vehicle that is capable of sensing its environment and moving with little or no human input.

Autonomous Vehicles

Battery

Electric Vehicles

Mobility

As China’s EV sector matures, decades-old automakers enter the fray. Nio, Xpeng, and Li Auto have laid the foundation for others to launch new EVs.

As China’s EV sector matures, decades-old automakers enter the fray | KrASIA

As China’s EV sector matures, decades-old automakers enter the fray

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

Xiaomi

Hardware, in the context of technology, refers to the physical elements that make up a computer or electronic system and everything else involved that is physically tangible. 

Hardware

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.

Amid internal challenges and fierce competition, Xiaomi forges ahead. Suppliers under the auspices of the tech giant question their future.

Amid internal challenges and fierce competition, Xiaomi forges ahead | KrASIA

Amid internal challenges and fierce competition, Xiaomi forges ahead

CATL, short for Contemporary Amperex Technology, is a Chinese company specializing in lithium-ion battery production for electric vehicles, energy storage, and battery management systems.

CATL

CATL is the world’s largest EV battery maker, but can the company hold onto its leading position? EV makers are innovating to offer products forclients.

CATL is the world’s largest EV battery maker, but can the company hold onto its leading position? | KrASIA

CATL is the world’s largest EV battery maker, but can the company hold onto its leading position?

Smartphones

How did Xiaomi create a multibillion-dollar IoT consumer electronics empire? Products incubated by Xiaomi undergo uncompromising scrutiny over every detail.

How did Xiaomi create a multibillion-dollar IoT consumer electronics empire? | KrASIA

How did Xiaomi create a multibillion-dollar IoT consumer electronics empire?

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

An e-commerce payment system facilitates the acceptance of electronic payment for online transactions. Read stories of Payment service providers, platforms or the trending of the Payment industry.

Payments

Airwallex raises USD 200 million, taking valuation to USD 4 billion. The startup’s revenue surged 150% in the first half of 2021.

Airwallex raises USD 200 million, taking valuation to USD 4 billion | KrASIA

Airwallex raises USD 200 million, taking valuation to USD 4 billion

Deep Tech

Robotics

SoftBank leads USD 200 million round for Keenon Robotics. Autonomous commercial service is common as a contactless delivery option in post-pandemic China.

SoftBank leads USD 200 million round for Keenon Robotics | KrASIA

SoftBank leads USD 200 million round for Keenon Robotics

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

E-Commerce

Retail

Consumer brands in China contend with tough business environment after heady growth in 2020. Meanwhile, investor sentiment remained strong in 1H 2021.