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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

Japan

The industry is aiming to start mutual use of QR code payment systems in Southeast Asia and India by Expo 2025 Osaka.

Japan to collaborate on Chinese payment services with joint QR code | KrASIA

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Japan to collaborate on Chinese payment services with joint QR code

Spotlighting Asia&#039;s next wave of innovations.

KrASIA

As part of 36Kr’s ongoing partnership with Nikkei, you can read selected content from Nikkei Asia on KrASIA.

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Nikkei Asia

Securing China’s commitment to reduce plastic production will be crucial for an effective treaty to combat plastic pollution.

Global plastic treaty talks could hinge on China pledging to curb plastic production | KrASIA

Global plastic treaty talks could hinge on China pledging to curb plastic production

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Jeff Chay

Angel Investing

Investment

Merger &amp; Acquisition

Private Equity

Venture capital is a type of private equity, a form of financing that is provided by firms or funds to small, early-stage, emerging firms that are deemed to have high growth potential, or which have demonstrated high growth.

Venture Capital

India

Bringing you the latest updates on funding deals and activities in the Asia Pacific.

Deals in brief: Sfermion and Amber Group lead USD 1.8 million investment in Anichess, 11 China and India deals, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: Sfermion and Amber Group lead USD 1.8 million investment in Anichess, 11 China and India deals, and more

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KrASIA Writers

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Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. The education industry is fast-reforming nowadays. 

Education

Q&amp;A

Author of 'How to Escape from Prison, Dr. Paul Wood talks about studying and education in prison, and his life after.

Tuning In | Dr. Paul Wood on how studying in prison changed his life and mindset | KrASIA

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Taro Ishida

Health Tech

Malaysia

Maran Virumandi explains how DoctorOnCall is trying to make healthcare more accessible in Malaysia.

Tuning In | Maran Virumandi on bridging the Malaysian medical divide with telehealth services | KrASIA

Social Impact

The team had won a grand prize for GjejZâ in 2019, a mobile application to stop gender-based violence in Albania, as well as empower women to be financially independent. 

Tuning In | Breaking free: How teenage girls are fighting gender-based violence in Albania with technology | KrASIA

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Joanna Ng

Indonesia

Harya Bimo founded Medigo to digitize healthcare data and make clinical consultations more accessible.

Tuning In | Harya Bimo on digitizing Indonesia’s healthcare system from the ground up | KrASIA

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Sara Mandagie

Singapore

Inspired by her son Jake, Judith is working hard to provide more physical therapy options in Singapore.

Tuning In | Judith Julia Justin on providing unique rehabilitative therapy services for children with disabilities | KrASIA

Preventive education can actually help to mitigate many of the public health crises that we’re currently facing in today’s world.

Tuning In | It's never too early to bring up tough conversations with children, says co-founders of Maro Parents | KrASIA

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.

Deep Tech

Waste Labs offers an AI and data modelling platform to help waste management companies reduce costs and improve efficiency through an optimal combination of vehicles, crew and routes.

[Tuning In] Elias Willemse on tackling urban waste by shifting gears from academia to AI innovation | KrASIA

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Emily Fang

Building a coherent narrative of India's rapidly changing tech ecosystem.

India Tech

Mishra is the founder and CEO of Afthonia, an incubator for fintech startups.

[Tuning In] Tanul Mishra gives her lens on the startup ecosystem in India | KrASIA

Ooi leads Welcome In My Backyard, an initiative to change existing prejudices and help migrant workers in Singapore.

[Tuning In] Nicole Ooi wants migrant workers to feel at home in Singapore | KrASIA

Bringing human stories to life and serve as a focused, borderless platform for readers to gather, learn, and interact.

Human Stories by Oasis

Tuning In | Dr. Paul Wood on how studying in prison changed his life and mindset

Tuning In | Maran Virumandi on bridging the Malaysian medical divide with telehealth services

Tuning In | Breaking free: How teenage girls are fighting gender-based violence in Albania with technology

Tuning In | Harya Bimo on digitizing Indonesia’s healthcare system from the ground up

Tuning In | Judith Julia Justin on providing unique rehabilitative therapy services for children with disabilities

Tuning In | It’s never too early to bring up tough conversations with children, says co-founders of Maro Parents

[Tuning In] Elias Willemse on tackling urban waste by shifting gears from academia to AI innovation

[Tuning In] Tanul Mishra gives her lens on the startup ecosystem in India

[Tuning In] Nicole Ooi wants migrant workers to feel at home in Singapore

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Japan to collaborate on Chinese payment services with joint QR code

Global plastic treaty talks could hinge on China pledging to curb plastic production

Deals in brief: Sfermion and Amber Group lead USD 1.8 million investment in Anichess, 11 China and India deals, and more