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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.

China

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

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Decoding China&#039;s tech and business pulse

KrASIA

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

BYD, a Chinese EV maker, produces electric cars, buses, and batteries, accelerating adoption of sustainable transportation worldwide.

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

Latin America

BYD is leading a wave of early EV exports into Brazil ahead of July tax hikes, but long-term success will likely hinge on more.

Chinese automakers rush to beat Brazil’s EV tariffs, but the real race is just starting

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

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Grant Horsfield

Naked Hub

The acquisition of Naked Hub helped WeWork in a market that’s notoriously difficult for foreign firms to crack. Unless they sell a lifestyle.

How Naked Hub became WeWork’s $400m ticket to China

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KrASIA Writers

In recent years, tea business has been hyped up, with new brands emerging one after another.

Gaga Café creates a third place for tea and snacks lovers and scores US$26.3M Series A

I'm Jason with KrASIA [kri’eɪʃə], a newborn digital media with a dedication to help Asia uncover its innovations and to create.

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Jason Zheng

JD.com, a Chinese e-commerce leader, ensures trusted transactions, efficient logistics, and a wide product selection for online shoppers.

JD.com

Inside the arrest of Chinese billionaire founder Richard Liu.

Everything you might want to know about billionaire founder Richard Liu’s arrest in the U.S. (updated)

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Momo

Besides Alibaba and Tencent, what other Chinese stocks you should also own?

Why Chinese social network Momo might be a good pick for value investors

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Shiwen Yap

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

lending

Online lending, still in its infancy, has already created work for 250,000 people in Indonesia.

New research measures impact of online lending on Indonesian economy

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Nadine Freischlad

Gojek, an Indonesian superapp, covers on-demand rides, food delivery, and financial services, enriching daily urban life.

Gojek

Google dominates online search, digital ads, and cloud solutions, powering discovery, analytics, and smartphone operating systems.

Google

Temasek, a Singaporean state-owned investment firm, drives sustainable growth, strategic acquisitions, and innovation in global markets.

Temasek

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

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

Payments

Southeast Asian ride-hailing duopoly will encounter an uphill battle in the Philippines.

Digital payments key to Go-Jek's Philippine expansion

Digital payments key to Go-Jek&#8217;s Philippine expansion

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

Consumer Economy

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

E-commerce

Indonesia online shopping

McKinsey report Indonesia

Online shopping means more business for small enterprises but it also makes things cheaper for shoppers.

McKinsey: Indonesian e-commerce bodes well for job creation and equality

Lazada

Shopee

Shopee and Lazada might have enjoyed some success in Thailand, but with JD-Central in the picture, will this last?

A snapshot of online shoppers in Thailand

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Elaine Huang

JD is known to invest a lot in logistics. Shoppers seem to appreciate the enhanced customer experience.

How JD is making its mark in Southeast Asia

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