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In just months, Labubu’s Thai fan base has made Pop Mart’s biggest overseas success story.

Pop Mart’s Labubu breaks records in Thailand—can the trend go global? | KrASIA

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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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Indonesia

Kupang students gain essential English language and hydroponic skills through the new initiative, opening doors to stronger career paths and brighter futures.

Backed by UNDP’s Catalytic Fund, Cakap launches skill-building program for Kupang students | KrASIA

Backed by UNDP’s Catalytic Fund, Cakap launches skill-building program for Kupang students

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Investment

Merger &amp; Acquisition

Private Equity

Venture capital is a type of private equity, a form of financing that is provided by firms or funds to small, early-stage, emerging firms that are deemed to have high growth potential, or which have demonstrated high growth.

Venture Capital

Vietnam

Bringing you the latest updates on funding deals and activities in the Asia Pacific.

Deals in brief: Coolmate and PangoCDP secure funding, Chickin confirms Series A+ round, eight China deals, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: Coolmate and PangoCDP secure funding, Chickin confirms Series A+ round, eight China deals, and more

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Bringing together the latest business insights and trends of China's tech ecosystem.

China Tech

Edtech

Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. The education industry is fast-reforming nowadays. 

Education

China's edtech is slowly deflating as regulators are becoming more assertive.

Chinese edtech firms downsize amid regulatory uncertainty | KrASIA

Chinese edtech firms downsize amid regulatory uncertainty

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Song Jingli

Malaysia

Singapore

Real estate portal follows Grab and Gojek with Southeast Asia's latest megadeal. Real estate technology portal PropertyGuru said on Monday it will buy all of the shares in the units of Australia's REA Group that run competing platforms iProperty.com.my and Brickz.my in Malaysia, as well as thinkofliving.com and Prakard.com in Thailand.

Singapore's PropertyGuru to acquire Malaysia and Thailand rivals | KrASIA

Singapore&#8217;s PropertyGuru to acquire Malaysia and Thailand rivals

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

Building a coherent narrative of India's rapidly changing tech ecosystem.

India Tech

India

FDI equity inflow grew by 19% in the FY 2020-21 to reach USD 59.64 billion, compared to USD 49.98 billion a year ago.

India attracted USD 81.72 billion in FDI in FY 2021 driven by tech sector | KrASIA

India attracted USD 81.72 billion in FDI in FY 2021 driven by tech sector

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

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Moulishree Srivastava

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple and Facebook. 

Google

Twitter

India's IT rules intend to hold social media companies accountable for the content posted on their platform. The new IT rules direct social media companies like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and others to set up a grievance redressal mechanism and appoint a chief compliance officer who should be available round the clock to address government concerns, including post takedowns within 72 hours of the request.

Social media giants WhatsApp and Twitter take Indian government to court over new IT rules | KrASIA

Social media giants WhatsApp and Twitter take Indian government to court over new IT rules

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Avanish Tiwary

Logistics is generally the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation. In a general business sense, logistics is the management of the flow of things between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet requirements of customers or corporations. 

Logistics

An on-demand service platform connects waiting-time-sensitive customers with independent service providers.

On-Demand Services

Truck-hailing platform Full Truck Logistics, which is known as Manbang in China, filed for an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange, without disclosing details about the size of the offering. CNBC reported earlier this month that the startup could raise around USD 1.5 billion, citing a person with knowledge of the matter. Manbang has backing from SoftBank and Tencent.

SoftBank and Tencent-backed freight platform Manbang files for US IPO | KrASIA

SoftBank and Tencent-backed freight platform Manbang files for US IPO

JD.com, Inc., also known as Jingdong and formerly called 360buy, is a Chinese e-commerce company headquartered in Beijing.

JD Logistics on Friday raised USD 3.1 billion in the second-biggest IPO in Hong Kong this year behind short video app Kuaishou, which took in USD 5.3 billion in February.

KEY STAT | JD Logistics shares surge in second-biggest Hong Kong IPO in 2021 | KrASIA

KEY STAT | JD Logistics shares surge in second-biggest Hong Kong IPO in 2021

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Julianna Wu

Most shots to go to the administration, with some set aside for employees. Key Apple supplier Foxconn and other big Taiwanese tech companies are attempting to purchase COVID-19 vaccines in a bid to keep business running smoothly amid a recent spike in coronavirus infections.

Taiwan tech execs look to buy COVID vaccines as cases surge | KrASIA

Taiwan tech execs look to buy COVID vaccines as cases surge

MENA

Space industry refers to economic activities related to manufacturing components that go into Earth's orbit or beyond, delivering them to those regions, and related services. 

Space Tech

Israeli company Ramon.Space, a provider of space computing solutions, announced this week that it raised USD 17.5 million to lead a digital transformation of computing in outer space. The Series A funding was led by StageOne Ventures, Deep Insight, WorldQuant Ventures, UMC Capital, and existing investor Grove Ventures.

Ramon.Space raises USD 17 million for super computer systems in space | KrASIA

Ramon.Space raises USD 17 million for super computer systems in space

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NoCamels

E-commerce is the activity of buying or selling of products on online services or over the Internet. 

E-Commerce

Retail

The 153-year-old conglomerate has been acquiring new-age internet companies that align with its vision of creating an online retail empire.