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Pop Mart and other Chinese brands are seeing soaring sales in Southeast Asia, fueled by the region’s young, eager consumers.

Southeast Asia is the next playground for trendy toys, and brands are cashing in | KrASIA

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Southeast Asia is the next playground for trendy toys, and brands are cashing in

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

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

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

An on-demand service platform connects waiting-time-sensitive customers with independent service providers.

On-Demand Services

With a 20% jump in deliveries during Southeast Asia’s 9.9 mega sales, J&T is proving its logistical muscle.

J&T Express doubles down on infrastructure as parcel volumes soar | KrASIA

J&#038;T Express doubles down on infrastructure as parcel volumes soar

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KrASIA Writers

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

China Tech

Deep Tech

Semiconductors

US sanctions were meant to stifle China’s tech progress, yet the gap is closing faster than expected as China pushes toward self-sufficiency.

Can US sanctions really hold back China’s chipmaking ambitions? | KrASIA

Can US sanctions really hold back China’s chipmaking ambitions?

KrASIA Connection curates technology and innovation updates from China.

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WeChat is a Chinese multi-purpose messaging, social media and mobile payment app developed by Tencent. It was first released in 2011, and by 2018 it was one of the world's largest standalone mobile apps by monthly active users, with over 1 billion monthly active users.

Wechat

WeChat is a Chinese multi-purpose messaging, social media and mobile payment app developed by Tencent. It was first released in 2011, and by 2018 it was one of the world&#8217;s largest standalone mobile apps by monthly active users, with over 1 billion monthly active users.

KrASIA | Wechat Archives

Tencent

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

Social Impact

online education

The internet maternity market valuation is predicted to cross USD 423 billion this year, but insufficient regulation causes concerns.

Anxious new parents fuel boom of Chinese online childcare education industry | KrASIA

Anxious new parents fuel boom of Chinese online childcare education industry

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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Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.  It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple and Facebook. 

Facebook

Reliance

Facebook bought a 9.99% stake in Reliance's Jio Platforms for USD 5.7 billion.

Is it really WhatsApp’s WeChat moment in India right now? | KrASIA

Is it really WhatsApp’s WeChat moment in India right now?

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Dhanasree Molugu

Visual Stories

Cities across the country have started to encourage public activities as the Chinese government tries to revive a halted economy.

KEY STAT | Local governments to stimulate consumption in China via digital coupons | KrASIA

KEY STAT | Local governments to stimulate consumption in China via digital coupons

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Julianna Wu

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

Alibaba

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.

Bytedance

JD.com, Inc., also known as Jingdong and formerly called 360buy, is a Chinese e-commerce company headquartered in Beijing.

Kuaishou (Chinese: 快手) is a platform for recording with millions of original fresh videos everyday.

Kuaishou

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.

With the spread of Internet global accessing (fastest Internet broadband connection TCP with accumulator cables and semi-fast connection), Short Video services have become very popular online. 

Short Video

Video games and new TV episodes were also put on hold.

China's internet goes black and white on day of mourning for pandemic victims | KrASIA

China&#8217;s internet goes black and white on day of mourning for pandemic victims

Edtech

Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. 

Entertainment

Robotics

"Tech is already a big part of my life. I cannot think of how important it will be for my daughter."

How tech is helping my daughter, while I am busy working from home | KrASIA

How tech is helping my daughter, while I am busy working from home

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Song Jingli

Ant Financial Services Group, formerly known as Alipay, is an affiliate company of the Chinese Alibaba Group. Ant Financial is the highest valued fintech company in the world, and the world's most valuable unicorn company, with a valuation of US$150 billion. 

Ant Group

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

Mobile commerce

JD.com's NFC payment tool JD Shanfu took the largest share in this niche market.

China's mobile payments hit USD 8.4 trillion, NFC payments see 50% increase | KrASIA

China&#8217;s mobile payments hit USD 8.4 trillion, NFC payments see 50% increase

Fenfu will allow users to acquire goods and repay the bill at a later date.

CHINA BRIEF | Tencent launches new payment product, raising competition against Ant Financial | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Tencent launches new payment product, raising competition against Ant Financial

Microsoft

Medical technology, or "medtech", encompasses a wide range of healthcare products and is used to treat diseases and medical conditions affecting humans. 

MedTech

The Chinese super app joins other tech giants looking to develop new software to fight the coronavirus pandemic.

WeChat to participate in COVID-19 hackathon in support of WHO | KrASIA

WeChat to participate in COVID-19 hackathon in support of WHO

The city has been locked down for more than two months.

Wechat

Anxious new parents fuel boom of Chinese online childcare education industry

Is it really WhatsApp’s WeChat moment in India right now?

KEY STAT | Local governments to stimulate consumption in China via digital coupons

China’s internet goes black and white on day of mourning for pandemic victims

How tech is helping my daughter, while I am busy working from home

China’s mobile payments hit USD 8.4 trillion, NFC payments see 50% increase

CHINA BRIEF | Tencent launches new payment product, raising competition against Ant Financial

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