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What shapes modern healthcare and agriculture? Examine biotech startups, gene editing, and drug discovery unlocking biological potential.

Biotechnology

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

Deep Tech

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

Health Tech

New treatments like dotinurad provide safer, more effective solutions for millions battling gout and hyperuricemia.

The decade-long wait ends: A breakthrough in gout treatment | KrASIA

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The decade-long wait ends: A breakthrough in gout treatment

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

KrASIA

36Kr is China's most influential business and technology network. Since 2010, 36Kr has been providing high-quality content around China’s innovation and new economy trends. With the traffic and network it has built, 36Kr has developed a comprehensive database and strong data analytics capabilities of the technology landscape in China.

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36Kr English

Bukalapak, an Indonesian marketplace, empowers small merchants and connects consumers with diverse products online.

Bukalapak

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

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

Consumer Services

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

E-commerce

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

On-demand Services

Indonesia

The Indonesian e-commerce firm is ditching its marketplace for physical items to focus on mobile credits, tax payments, and other virtual services.

Indonesia’s Bukalapak pivots to digital services, ends physical goods sales | KrASIA

Indonesia’s Bukalapak pivots to digital services, ends physical goods sales

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KrASIA Writers

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

Mobility

How do goods and people flow worldwide? Examine transport networks, logistics innovations, and policies shaping global connectivity.

Transportation

Two debut products highlight Kuickwheel’s ambitions of redefining mobility across air, land, and water.

Flying high and cruising fast: Kuickwheel’s Rictor dazzles CES with futuristic vehicles | KrASIA

Flying high and cruising fast: Kuickwheel’s Rictor dazzles CES with futuristic vehicles

WeChat, Tencent’s superapp, combines messaging, social media, mobile payments, and mini-programs, streamlining daily tasks for over a billion users.

WeChat

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Tencent

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

Fintech

The country's central bank previously asked third-party payment platforms to clear obstacles preventing international tourists to use their mobile payment services.

Following Alipay, WeChat Pay is now also accessible to overseas visitors coming to China | KrASIA

Following Alipay, WeChat Pay is now also accessible to overseas visitors coming to China

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Song Jingli

Tencent, a Chinese tech conglomerate, invests in gaming, social media, and cloud services, supporting entertainment and connectivity worldwide.

The integration has been tested with a number of financial services companies including BNP Paribas, Citi, Deutsche Bank, and Goldman Sachs.

Goldman-backed chat app Symphony unlocks access to WeChat users through partnership with Tencent | KrASIA

Goldman-backed chat app Symphony unlocks access to WeChat users through partnership with Tencent

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SCMP

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

Payments

Opinion

On average, a Hongkonger uses a digital wallet two or three times a week, but only one-third in city are classified as heavy users at four to six times a week.

Hong Kong needs a mindset change for digital payments to become more accepted, experts say | KrASIA

Hong Kong needs a mindset change for digital payments to become more accepted, experts say

The new "Industry Assistant" is able to gauge a merchant's effectiveness in its user retention and business marketing.

WeChat launches a new mini program to coach mini apps developers | KrASIA

WeChat launches a new mini program to coach mini apps developers

Wency Chen is a reporter KrASIA based in Beijing, covering tech innovations in&amp;beyond the Greater China Area. Previously, she studied at Columbia Journalism School and reported on art exhibits, New York public school systems, LGBTQ+ rights, and Asian immigrants. She is also an enthusiastic reader, a diehard fan of indie rock and spicy hot pot, as well as a to-be filmmaker (Let’s see). Follow her on Twitter: @ChenWQ45 Tips go to: wency@kr-asia.com

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Wency Chen

ByteDance, a Chinese internet company, uses machine learning to recommend engaging videos, news, and social content (via TikTok and Douyin).

ByteDance

Mini programs are the current competitive arena for China’s tech giants.

ByteDance’s Douyin to unveil a Karaoke mini app | KrASIA

ByteDance’s Douyin to unveil a Karaoke mini app

WeChat Pay allows money transfer via phone numbers | KrASIA

WeChat Pay allows money transfer via phone numbers

Pinduoduo revolutionizes e-commerce with social group buying, connecting budget-conscious shoppers to discounts on a broad range of products.

Pinduoduo

Price-cutting and apps-download links will be banned from the platform.

WeChat's upcoming tightened links policy may harm Pinduoduo and other platforms | KrASIA

WeChat&#8217;s upcoming tightened links policy may harm Pinduoduo and other platforms

Third-party services left users susceptible to fraudulent activity.

WeChat takes fight against fake GPS location services used for fraud | KrASIA

WeChat takes fight against fake GPS location services used for fraud

Ant Group, a fintech powerhouse, offers digital payments, wealth management tools, and micro loans, enabling borderless, mobile-first financial services.

Ant Group

Binance's new approach of peer-to-peer trading has been shunned by Chinese mobile payment giants.