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Sea Group operates digital entertainment (Garena), e-commerce (Shopee), and fintech (SeaMoney) platforms across Southeast Asia.

Sea Group

Shopee, a Southeast Asian online marketplace, features interactive shopping, flash deals, and localized payment options.

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Southeast Asia’s tech ecosystem is a melting pot of startups and businesses of all sizes, all vying for rapid growth.

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What sets the bar for convenience? Examine on-demand platforms, subscription models, and personalization transforming consumer expectations.

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How do ideas shape industries? Learn how content, design, and digital artistry influence branding, marketing, and cultural impact.

Creative

How do clicks replace aisles? Explore global marketplaces, payment solutions, and technology accelerating online retail’s growth.

E-commerce

How does finance become frictionless? Examine digital banking, payment innovation, and lending platforms redefining financial access.

Fintech

How does interactive entertainment evolve? Assess gaming ecosystems, esports growth, and technology enhancing virtual play.

Gaming

How does credit flow online? Explore digital lending tools, alternative scoring, and services accelerating capital access.

Lending

How do goods cross borders seamlessly? Examine warehousing tech, route optimization, and data analytics building efficient supply chains.

Logistics

How do platforms deliver on immediacy? Analyze ride-hailing, instant deliveries, and gig models meeting consumer needs fast.

On-demand Services

What streamlines global commerce? Examine digital wallets, cross-border remittances, and instant settlement technologies.

Payments

China

The underlying economics of Shopee, Monee, and Garena may be behind the selloff.

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China’s tech ecosystem serves as a driving force behind the world’s second largest economy, influencing global digital markets.

Explore East Asia’s thriving tech hubs, global electronics producers, and fast-evolving digital platforms shaping cross-border innovation.

East Asia

Huawei, a global telecom and smartphone vendor, delivers networking equipment, 5G solutions, and consumer devices integrating cutting-edge tech.

How does information move at light speed? Review 5G rollouts, fiber networks, and connectivity standards advancing global communication.

Telecommunications

The company aims to address U6GHz’s propagation challenges and unlock a new class of mobile networking performance.

Huawei unveils U6GHz portfolio at MWC Barcelona 2026

Cheng Zi is based in China, covering technology- and business-related events. She works with her colleagues at 36Kr Global to provide coverage in both English and Chinese.

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Cheng Zi

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How do markets shape wealth creation? Study portfolio diversification, asset classes, and strategies balancing growth and risk.

Investment

Why do firms join forces? Investigate synergy goals, valuation methods, and negotiations driving corporate consolidation.

Merger &amp; Acquisition

Hong Kong

The territory's stock market has become a source of overseas M&A funding for mainland miners.

China eyes Hong Kong as gold trading hub in bid for market dominance

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What fuels startup ecosystems? Review funding rounds, investor strategies, and market insights guiding entrepreneurial growth.

Venture Capital

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Antler Singapore selected 70 founders from 3100 applicants for its fifth cohort. The global startup generator and VC firm Antler on Wednesday revealed the 12 new startups that graduated from its fifth Singapore cohort and the COVID-19 initiative. This year, it welcomed young companies from new segments such as art tech and insurance tech.

Here are the 12 startups graduated from Antler’s fifth Southeast Asia Demo Day

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Grab, a Southeast Asian superapp, provides ride-hailing, food delivery, and mobile payments, connecting millions to on-demand services.

Grab

What redefines personal transport? Investigate pricing models, user experience, and new entrants reshaping door-to-door mobility.

Ride-hailing

The firm aims to support regional governments in the distribution of the vaccines. Singapore-based on-demand app Grab said on Thursday that it will roll out a financial assistance program for employees and their immediate family, along with drivers and delivery partners, who are not covered by a national vaccination scheme.

Grab to subsidize vaccination costs for drivers and delivery partners

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What lies beyond familiar frontiers? Investigate emerging tech—like quantum computing and AI—transforming traditional sectors.

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How is healthcare going digital? Investigate telemedicine, wearable sensors, and data-driven platforms improving patient experiences.

Health Tech

Singapore-based healthtech firm Bot MD announced it has closed a USD 5 million Series A round led by Monk’s Hill Ventures, a VC firm with a focus on early-stage startups in Southeast Asia. Existing and new investors include SeaX Ventures, tech executives investment network XA Network, the Singapore government-owned SGInnovate, Biosensors International Group founder Yoh-Chie Lu, and Zilog founder Steve Blank. %

Healthcare startup Bot MD raises USD 5 million in funding round led by Monk's Hill Ventures

Healthcare startup Bot MD raises USD 5 million in funding round led by Monk&#8217;s Hill Ventures

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What powers tomorrow’s roads? Explore EV adoption, charging infrastructure, and battery advances sparking the shift toward sustainable transport.

Electric Vehicles

How is the way we move evolving? Explore developments in autonomous transportation, electric vehicles, and more efficient urban transit.

Mobility

BlueSG runs a fleet of 667 vehicles and 1,487 charging stations in Singapore. Home-grown transport and engineering group Goldbell is in advanced talks to buy over an electric car-sharing outfit in Singapore.

EV sharing firm BlueSG reportedly in talks to be sold to Goldbell

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Grab said it has closed on a $2 billion, five-year term loan facility amid rumors that it is preparing an initial public offering (IPO). Grab said the loan facility was increased from an original principal amount of $750 million because of investor interest.

Grab closes expanded USD 2 billion loan facility

Sampingan has more than 850,000 workers using its platform across 80 cities in Indonesia. Gig work is here to stay. Whether it's because full-time jobs are scarce, or that some people prefer flexibility, freelance projects are the prime source of income for many around the world. But for a company, it can be a headache to manage a fleet of temporary workers, particularly when all of them work remotely.

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"I play games every day, for both work and for entertainment." The gaming industry is relatively new, so there’s still plenty of room for experimentation and breaking new frontiers.

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How to become producer of the world&#8217;s most downloaded game: Profiles in Tech

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What hovers over new frontiers? Explore drone logistics, aerial data collection, and surveillance tools shaping multiple industries.

Drones

Q&amp;A

Malaysia-based Aerodyne is the world's second-largest drone company, with presence in over 35 countries.

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Back in October, the company was awarded a three-year ride-hailing service operator license.

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