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When do companies invite public investment? Understand listing criteria, underwriter roles, and regulatory steps defining initial offerings.

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

Venture Capital

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Singapore

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Vietnam

Smaller companies could turn to local listings, lifting the region's performance.

Southeast Asia's IPOs poised for rebound in 2025, but clouds loom | KrASIA

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

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

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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

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

Transportation

As cold weather continues to reveal performance gaps in electric vehicles, are automakers finding effective solutions?

Winter woes: Why EVs face their toughest test in the cold | KrASIA

Winter woes: Why EVs face their toughest test in the cold

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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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

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

How are driverless systems redefining mobility? Uncover sensor technologies, regulatory frameworks, and AI driving cars without human intervention.

Autonomous Vehicles

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

Tencent

In its push towards the Internet of Vehicles, Tencent has teamed up with more than 30 automakers including Mercedes-Benz, Changan, and Geely.

CHINA BRIEF | Tencent brings in-car WeChat, mini apps to BMW in new partnership | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Tencent brings in-car WeChat, mini apps to BMW in new partnership

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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In July 2020, Mobileye announced that Germany’s independent technical service provider, TÜV Süd, had awarded it an automated vehicle testing permit. It allows the company to drive its test vehicles in real-world traffic on all German roads at speeds up to 130 kilometers per hour. Mobileye is starting testing in Munich and also plans testing in other parts of Germany. Courtesy of Mobileye via NoCamels.

What guides machine-led insights? Uncover AI applications, language models, and decision-making systems transforming sectors worldwide.

Artificial Intelligence

The tests will begin in and around Munich with plans to expand to other areas.

Mobileye to test autonomous vehicles in Germany on path toward driverless future | KrASIA

Mobileye to test autonomous vehicles in Germany on path toward driverless future

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TuSimple will start commercializing its autonomous driving technologies; it is already providing transportation services for companies like UPS and US Postal Service.

CHINA BRIEF | TuSimple partners with Navistar to sell self-driving trucks in North America | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | TuSimple partners with Navistar to sell self-driving trucks in North America

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Song Jingli

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

Huawei

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

Telecommunications

Huawei has been leveraging its 5G expertise to develop autonomous driving technology.

BYD’s new 5G-equipped electric car runs on the Huawei HarmonyOS car platform | KrASIA

BYD’s new 5G-equipped electric car runs on the Huawei HarmonyOS car platform

Meituan, China’s all-in-one local services platform, covers food delivery, travel bookings, and lifestyle deals, simplifying daily consumer choices.

Meituan

The company has delivered 10,473 electric SUVs by the end of June since last November.

CHINA BRIEF | EV maker Lixiang files for US IPO after closing USD 550 million Series D | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | EV maker Lixiang files for US IPO after closing USD 550 million Series D

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

The tests, in which cars do not have safety operators, make WeRide the second company in the world to run fully driverless vehicles.

WeRide starts testing driverless autonomous vehicles in Guangzhou | KrASIA

WeRide starts testing driverless autonomous vehicles in Guangzhou

Jack Ma appears on stage as a hologram at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai on July 9. Courtesy of WAIC via South China Morning Post.

Alibaba, China’s e-commerce giant, operates online retail marketplaces, cloud computing services, and digital payment networks across Asia and beyond.

Alibaba

Ma explained how Chinese technicians developed a machine powered by algorithms during the pandemic that was 60 times more efficient than a human doctor.

Jack Ma encourages more AI cooperation as Elon Musk says Tesla is close to L5 autonomous driving | KrASIA

Jack Ma encourages more AI cooperation as Elon Musk says Tesla is close to L5 autonomous driving

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Challenges to TuSimple’s autonomous trucking network include both regulatory and technical obstacles.

TuSimple appears ready for a nationwide autonomous freight network with its partner UPS, but challenges remain | KrASIA

TuSimple appears ready for a nationwide autonomous freight network with its partner UPS, but challenges remain

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Gozde Celik

How does dinner arrive at your door? Study platform partnerships, last-mile delivery, and culinary trends powering the takeaway economy.

Food Delivery

How does automation advance industry? Analyze robotic arms, drones, and AI-driven tools reshaping manufacturing and services.

Robotics

China's largest food delivery company invested more than USD 14 million into the robot manufacturer.