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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

Transport or transportation is the movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. 

Transportation

Ehang is the world’s first autonomous aerial vehicle company approved to conduct commercial trials of passenger drones for transporting heavy cargo, it says.

Chinese flying taxi maker Ehang gets approval to test drone deliveries for cargo weighing over 150kg | KrASIA

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Chinese flying taxi maker Ehang gets approval to test drone deliveries for cargo weighing over 150kg

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An XAG drone, attached with the company’s JetSeed granule system, scatters rice seeds at a farm in the Zengcheng District of Guangzhou, capital of southern Guangdong province. Courtesy of XAG via South China Morning Post.

XAG, one of China’s largest makers of agricultural drones, expects its JetSeed direct seeding system to become more widely adopted.

Drone maker XAG in drive to automate rice farming in China amid labor shortage, COVID-19 | KrASIA

Drone maker XAG in drive to automate rice farming in China amid labor shortage, COVID-19

The 13,500-square-meter Apollo Park in Beijing’s Yizhuang Economic Development Zone houses more than 200 self-driving vehicles. Courtesy of Baidu via South China Morning Post.

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

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 Apollo Park in Beijing is equipped with facilities to support the full autonomous vehicle development process, from research to testing.

China’s Baidu finishes building ‘world’s largest’ test ground for autonomous vehicle, smart driving systems | KrASIA

China’s Baidu finishes building ‘world’s largest’ test ground for autonomous vehicle, smart driving systems

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

People’s Bank of China governor Yi Gang says there’s no timetable for an official launch of the first sovereign digital currency among major economies.

China’s digital currency not set for launch as trials are "just routine", central bank governor cools speculation | KrASIA

China’s digital currency not set for launch as trials are &#8220;just routine&#8221;, central bank governor cools speculation

ByteDance or Beijing ByteDance Technology Co Ltd. is a Chinese Internet technology company operating several machine learning-enabled content platforms, headquartered in Beijing. It was founded by Zhang Yiming in 2012. ByteDance's core product, Toutiao, is a popular content platform in China.

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Video

About 86.6% of TikTok’s user spending in April was generated in mainland China, followed by 8.2% in the United States

TikTok user spending hits USD 78 million in April, leads YouTube to become world’s top-grossing non-game app | KrASIA

TikTok user spending hits USD 78 million in April, leads YouTube to become world’s top-grossing non-game app

PayMe is a peer-to-peer payment app introduced by HSBC in Hong Kong in February 2017. It allows users to transfer funds and pay participating merchants for online or in-store purchases. Courtesy of HSBC via South China Morning Post.

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

Hong Kong has seen a threefold jump in transaction volume passing through the Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s Faster Payment System.

Thanks to mahjong and poker, HSBC’s e-wallet hits new milestone on pandemic-driven surge in online payments | KrASIA

Thanks to mahjong and poker, HSBC’s e-wallet hits new milestone on pandemic-driven surge in online payments

The game industry is the economic sector involved in the development, marketing, and monetization of games. It encompasses dozens of job disciplines and its component parts employ thousands of people worldwide.

Gaming

Live Streaming

The directive from the Supreme People’s Court comes amid the growing number of disputes over money spent by minors on these platforms.

China’s highest court supports refund for kids’ excessive spending on games, livestreaming apps | KrASIA

China’s highest court supports refund for kids’ excessive spending on games, livestreaming apps

Alibaba Group Holding's popular smart speaker, Tmall Genie. Courtesy of Alibaba via South China Morning Post.

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

Alibaba

In computer science, artificial intelligence (AI), sometimes called machine intelligence, is intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence displayed by humans and animals.

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

Despite a sharp drop in first-quarter sales because of the coronavirus pandemic, smart speaker shipments in China are projected to grow 9.8% in 2020.

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba to invest USD 1.4 billion to build ecosystem around its Tmall Genie smart speaker | KrASIA

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba to invest USD 1.4 billion to build ecosystem around its Tmall Genie smart speaker

Tencent Holdings Limited is a Chinese multinational investment holding conglomerate whose subsidiaries specialize in various Internet-related services and products, entertainment, artificial intelligence and technology both in China and globally.

Tencent

Tencent is hiring for at least five game-related positions in California, requiring candidates to have experience creating blockbuster games.