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

Spotlighting Asia&#039;s next wave of innovations.

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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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Angel Investing

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

Li Auto

Electric Vehicles

Mobility

Electric vehicle startup Li Auto posted total revenue of RMB 3.58 billion (USD 545.7 million) in the first quarter of 2021, up 319.8% year-on-year and topping earnings estimates, according to the company's earnings report released on Wednesday. It delivered 12579 EVs in Q1.

KEY STAT | Li Auto delivers 12,579 EVs in Q1, tops earnings estimates | KrASIA

KEY STAT | Li Auto delivers 12,579 EVs in Q1, tops earnings estimates

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Julianna Wu

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

Pinduoduo is an e-commerce platform allowing users to participate in group buying deals. It was founded by Colin Huang as Shanghai Dream Information Technology Co., Ltd. in September 2015.

Pinduoduo

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

E-Commerce

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

Chinese e-commerce company Pinduoduo said "conditions are ripe to reimagine logistics" on Wednesday after disclosing solid first quarter financial results. Pinduoduo currently generates 33% of packages shipped in China.

Pinduoduo signals interest in developing new logistics system after generating 33% of all parcels in China | KrASIA

Pinduoduo signals interest in developing new logistics system after generating 33% of all parcels in China

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Song Jingli

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

Social Impact

Myanmar

Myanmar's military lacks 'financial and human resources' to build a local version of China's Great Firewall, one report says.

Burmese authorities want to wall off the internet, but can they succeed? | KrASIA

Burmese authorities want to wall off the internet, but can they succeed?

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Biotech

Deep Tech

Singapore

Engine Biosciences applies machine learning to genomics for drug discovery and therapy optimization.

Singapore-based biotech firm Engine Biosciences raises SGD 57 million to advance cancer treatment | KrASIA

Singapore-based biotech firm Engine Biosciences raises SGD 57 million to advance cancer treatment

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Khamila Mulia

AliHealth FY 2021 net profit: USD 53 million

Alibaba Group Holding Limited is a Chinese multinational conglomerate specializing in e-commerce, retail, Internet and technology. 

Alibaba

Health Tech

Retail

The robust performance was mainly driven by the rapid increase in online sales of medicines and healthcare products.

KEY STAT | AliHealth reports USD 53.3 million net profit as online pharmacy sales keep growing | KrASIA

KEY STAT | AliHealth reports USD 53.3 million net profit as online pharmacy sales keep growing

ByteDance or Beijing ByteDance Technology Co Ltd. is a Chinese Internet technology company operating several machine learning-enabled content platforms, headquartered in Beijing. It was founded by Zhang Yiming in 2012. ByteDance's core product, Toutiao, is a popular content platform in China.

Bytedance

Kuaishou (Chinese: 快手) is a platform for recording with millions of original fresh videos everyday.

Kuaishou

With the spread of Internet global accessing (fastest Internet broadband connection TCP with accumulator cables and semi-fast connection), Short Video services have become very popular online. 

Short Video

Europe

Kuaishou is onboarding international vendors mainly offering cosmetics, skincare products, food, watches, and luxuries.

Kuaishou kicks off cross-border sales to boost growing e-commerce presence | KrASIA

Kuaishou kicks off cross-border sales to boost growing e-commerce presence

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

India Tech

Creative

India

Koo app is available in English, Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Bengali, and Malayalam.

Twitter's Indian competitor Koo raises USD 30 million as India tightens social media grip | KrASIA

Twitter&#8217;s Indian competitor Koo raises USD 30 million as India tightens social media grip

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Avanish Tiwary

MENA

With the current round, Forter almost tripled its valuation to USD 3 billion to become the most valuable privately-held company in the industry.

E-commerce fraud prevention firm Forter raises USD 300 million | KrASIA

E-commerce fraud prevention firm Forter raises USD 300 million

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NoCamels

Indian venture debt funds raised a total of USD 85 million in FY 21, up from USD 62 million raised in FY 20.