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Nikkei Asia

Baidu leads Chinese search engines, voice assistants, autonomous driving research, and AI platforms connecting users with information and services.

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

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

Artificial Intelligence

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

Deep Tech

Its new search interface is part chatbot, part creative tool, and part concierge, but whether users will embrace it at scale remains an open question.

Baidu reimagines search as the race to build the first AI superapp continues

36Kr is China's most influential business and technology network, delivering high-quality content focused on China’s innovation and new economy trends since 2010. With its extensive traffic and network, 36Kr has built a comprehensive database and strong data analytics capabilities to provide insights into China’s technology landscape.

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

Biotechnology

Hong Kong

The Hong Kong-listed firm is advancing its pipeline using an mRNA system it says can compete with the industry’s best.

Everest Medicines targets global expansion with proprietary, AI-driven mRNA platform

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T. K. Lin

KrASIA tracks China’s tech and business stories—alongside key developments across the broader Asia Pacific region.

Insights | KrASIA

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

Tencent restructures as it looks to contain ByteDance's prolific growth.

Tencent announces restructure plan amidst declining share prices

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Robin Moh

They operate like a library, lending children’s books through their WeChat mini program, WeChat official account, their own app and Alipay.

Picture book sharing platform iBoNiao completed 1 billion RMB Series Pre-A

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DeFang Tang

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

Chinese tech companies IPO

HKEX

Meituan continues with strong revenue growth amidst huge losses.

Meituan reveals 55% jump in transactions and widened profit margin on food delivery in interim report

Through Xiang Shou Xiao He’s WeChat mini program, users are able to receive parcels, grocery, and even breakfast meals when they are not home. 

Free foldable drop box at your door, XiangShouXiaoHe makes delivery hassle-free

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Payments

Inching towards a broader acceptance of online debit card payments.

Indonesian payment companies announce solution to simplify e-commerce transactions

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Nadine Freischlad

Alibaba joined hands with KrASIA’s parent company, 36Kr, to launch ‘AI Masterclass’. This article summarizes the key takeaways on employing AI engineers.

AI engineers paid higher in China than Silicon Valley

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Redmart

Honestbee faces stiff competition in the online food and groceries delivery market.

Singaporean online concierge Honestbee continues regional push with support from South Korea

A VC's take on investing into Latin American bike-sharing market.

GGV Hans Tung: Why we invested in a Latin American bike-sharing startup

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Foreign workers in Hong Kong can now remit money anywhere, anytime.