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Targeted dialogues and policy consultations at BIIT paved the way for Chinese firms to expand globally.

BIIT 2025 unlocks market access through strategic negotiations

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Decoding China&#039;s tech and business pulse

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CHENG Zi is based in China, covering technology and business-related events. She works with her colleagues at 36Kr Global to provide coverage in both English and Chinese.

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Cheng Zi

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

Consumer Economy

What fits the world in your pocket? Track device innovation, OS ecosystems, and connectivity shaping smartphone usage.

Smartphones

Africa

Transsion’s localization playbook made it a leader in markets others ignored. Now, competitors are catching on.

Once untouchable in Africa, Transsion now faces a wave of challengers

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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36Kr English

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

AI buzzwords fade fast, but with the right timing and utility, MCP could stick.

As AI agents multiply, is MCP the protocol to watch?

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

Insights | KrASIA

Southeast Asia’s tech ecosystem is a melting pot of startups and businesses of all sizes, all vying for rapid growth.

Southeast Asia

Traveloka, a Southeast Asian travel platform, helps users book flights, hotels, and local experiences seamlessly.

Traveloka

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

What drives global exploration? Discover evolving tourism trends, hospitality services, and the shift toward personalized travel experiences.

Travel

Indonesia

Traveloka doubles down on fintech ahead of IPO. Fintech is one of the three important business pillars, Traveloka president Caesar Indra said.

Indonesia's Traveloka doubles down on fintech ahead of IPO

Indonesia&#8217;s Traveloka doubles down on fintech ahead of IPO

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

The US market serves as both the backbone and the driving force behind global technological advancements.

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

E-commerce

How do stores adapt to digital shifts? Explore e-commerce integration, inventory analytics, and omnichannel strategies for modern shoppers.

Retail

Tech offers a complete makeover of the fashion and beauty industries. South Korean startups are disrupting the market with innovative technologies.

Tech enables a complete makeover of the fashion and beauty industries

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Michelle Ng, Quest Ventures

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

How do platforms deliver on immediacy? Analyze ride-hailing, instant deliveries, and gig models meeting consumer needs fast.

On-demand Services

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

Ride-hailing

Singapore

What Singapore's Grab brings to global investors with US listing. Grab emerges as alternative investment vehicle amid China's tech crackdown.

What Singapore's Grab brings to global investors with US listing

What Singapore&#8217;s Grab brings to global investors with US listing

India’s tech landscape blossoms with e-commerce startups, fintech innovations, and IT services shaping a growing digital consumer base.

India

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

Lifestyle retailer Nykaa will use the IPO proceeds to open more stores in India and venture into the Middle East and European markets.

Nykaa raises USD 715 million in India's first D2C startup IPO

Nykaa raises USD 715 million in India&#8217;s first D2C startup IPO

I cover Indian tech, startup, venture capital ecosystems for KrASIA.

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Moulishree Srivastava

How do policies adjust to a data-rich world? Explore usage-based coverage, automated claims, and analytics guiding risk assessment.

Insurance

Europe

Bolttech provides a digital insurance marketplace for insurers, distributors, and customers. It counts over 150 insurance firms, 700 distribution partners.

Bolttech provides a digital insurance marketplace for insurers, distributors, and customers 

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Stephanie Li

The recently released eFisheryKu mobile application offers fish farmers end-to-end solutions, including a “buy now, pay later” feature.

Buy fish feed now, pay after the harvest: eFishery continues to revamp the conventional fish industry

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Startup Wire

Embedded finance: Banking enablers and banking-as-a-service. There is a wide range of banking enablers, each providing a different scope of BaaS.

Banking enablers and banking-as-a-service

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Headline Asia

Social commerce sees boom in Indonesia thanks to rural users. Super and Evermos are growing quickly in Indonesia's tier-2 and tier-3 cities.

Social commerce sees boom in Indonesia thanks to rural users

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Khamila Mulia

Colabs team. Courtesy of Colabs via MENAbytes.

The Middle East’s growing tech ecosystem harnesses the enterprising spirit of innovators from its diverse cultural markets.

Middle East

Where does real estate meet innovation? Study IoT building management, digital realty investments, and tech-enabled tenant services.

Prop Tech

Pakistan’s Colabs wants to build a community of 100,000 entrepreneurs and freelancers. The firm currently operates two co-working spaces in Lahore.

Pakistan’s Colabs wants to build a community of 100,000 entrepreneurs and freelancers

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Insights

Indonesia’s Traveloka doubles down on fintech ahead of IPO

Tech enables a complete makeover of the fashion and beauty industries

What Singapore’s Grab brings to global investors with US listing

Nykaa raises USD 715 million in India’s first D2C startup IPO

Bolttech provides a digital insurance marketplace for insurers, distributors, and customers