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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

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

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

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

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

Fintech

Fintech | KrASIA Archives

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

Payments

Conglomerates team up with e-wallet providers to supercharge Indonesia’s fintech sector. Fintech services are integrating with the country’s enterprises.

Conglomerates team up with e-wallet providers to supercharge Indonesia’s fintech sector | KrASIA

Conglomerates team up with e-wallet providers to supercharge Indonesia’s fintech sector

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Khamila Mulia

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

China’s digital yuan cross-border payment vision boosted by SWIFT ban on Russia. Both China and Russia are developing their own national digital currencies.

China’s digital yuan cross-border payment vision boosted by SWIFT ban on Russia | KrASIA

China’s digital yuan cross-border payment vision boosted by SWIFT ban on Russia

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Mengyuan Ge

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

Grab

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

Food Delivery

What changes the way we shop? Review fresh inventory management, dark stores, and logistics driving door-to-door grocery services.

Grocery Delivery

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

Ride-hailing

Grab reports USD 1 billion loss in Q4 on heavy incentive spending. The Singapore tech group's first results since its US listing come as shares slump.

Grab reports USD 1 billion loss in Q4 on heavy incentive spending | KrASIA

Grab reports USD 1 billion loss in Q4 on heavy incentive spending

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

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

Alibaba

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

Ant Group

What happens after acquisitions close? Examine deal structures, operational improvements, and exit strategies molding corporate outcomes.

Private Equity

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

Venture Capital

China’s state-owned enterprises to examine financial exposure to Ant Group. All SOEs must review report their ties to the Alibaba affiliate.

China’s state-owned enterprises to examine financial exposure to Ant Group, report says | KrASIA

China’s state-owned enterprises to examine financial exposure to Ant Group, report says

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Jiaxing Li

Philippines

Meet Finantier, the Asia Star of the Alibaba Cloud x KrASIA Global Startup Accelerator Philippines Demo Day.

Meet Finantier, the Asia Star of the Alibaba Cloud x KrASIA Global Startup Accelerator Philippines Demo Day | KrASIA

Meet Finantier, the Asia Star of the Alibaba Cloud x KrASIA Global Startup Accelerator Philippines Demo Day

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Alibaba Cloud Project AsiaForward

How do trustless ledgers transform industries? Investigate decentralized databases, smart contracts, and infrastructure powering secure transactions.

Blockchain

Where do digital assets find value? Consider market volatility, decentralized exchanges, and blockchain protocols shaping crypto economies.

Cryptocurrencies

Thailand

Thailand’s Bitkub wants to become the ‘Coinbase’ of Southeast Asia. Will tightening regulations and competition hamper Bitkub’s growth?

Thailand’s Bitkub wants to become the ‘Coinbase’ of Southeast Asia | KrASIA

Thailand’s Bitkub wants to become the ‘Coinbase’ of Southeast Asia

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Stephanie Li

Finantier’s open finance platform fosters financial inclusion. Finantier generates profiles for users who were unable to access financial services.

Finantier’s open finance platform fosters financial inclusion | KrASIA

Finantier’s open finance platform fosters financial inclusion

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Sarah Koh

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

Investment

Indonesian regulators block illegal trading websites following complaints on social media. Bappebti has announced that binary options are illegal.

Indonesian regulators block illegal trading websites following complaints on social media | KrASIA

Indonesian regulators block illegal trading websites following complaints on social media

Akulaku acquired Bank Neo Commerce, opens new frontier for online banking, and gained more than 10 million users in six months.