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Thailand

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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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

KrASIA | News Archives

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

China Tech

Boss Zhipin is China's largest online job site by monthly active users. The Chinese company behind online recruiting app Boss Zhipin, which literally means "Boss direct recruitment," on Friday submitted its prospectus for a public listing on Nasdaq, aiming to raise around USD 300 million, The Paper reported.

KEY STAT | Recruiting app Boss Zhipin files for Nasdaq IPO | KrASIA

KEY STAT | Recruiting app Boss Zhipin files for Nasdaq IPO

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Julianna Wu

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

Fintech is the new applications, processes, products, or business models in the financial services industry, composed of one or more complementary financial services and provided as an end-to-end process via the internet.

Fintech

Insurance

Lending

Malaysia

Fintech startup Finology won the Seedstars World Competition, earning USD 500,000 in funding.

Malaysian startup wins Seedstars World Competition, a first for the country | KrASIA

Malaysian startup wins Seedstars World Competition, a first for the country

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MENA

Autonomous Vehicles is about self-driving. A self-driving car is also known as a robot car, autonomous car, or driverless car, is a vehicle that is capable of sensing its environment and moving with little or no human input.

Autonomous Vehicles

Mobility

SAIPS is developing algorithms that connect with the precise three-dimensional mapping of the self-driving vehicle’s surroundings.

Israeli startup SAIPS is helping Ford roll out self-driving vehicle by 2022 | KrASIA

Israeli startup SAIPS is helping Ford roll out self-driving vehicle by 2022

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NoCamels

OYO Rooms, commonly known as OYO, is India's largest hospitality company, consisting mainly of budget hotels. It was founded in 2013 by Ritesh Agarwal and has since grown to over 12,000 hotels in 337 cities in India, Malaysia, UAE, Nepal, China and Indonesia.

Read stories of Travel service providers, platforms or the trending of the travel industry.

Travel

India

Oyo Hotels is seeking USD 600 million to replenish its cash reserves, as India's second wave of coronavirus and subsequent lockdowns have once again wiped the demand for its services in the country.

Oyo seeks USD 600 million loan as India's second wave disrupts its recovery efforts | KrASIA

Oyo seeks USD 600 million loan as India&#8217;s second wave disrupts its recovery efforts

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

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Moulishree Srivastava

NetEase, Inc. is a Chinese Internet technology company providing online services centered on content, community, communications and commerce. The company was founded in 1997 by Lebunto. NetEase develops and operates online PC and mobile games, advertising services, email services and e-commerce platforms in China.

NetEase

Tencent Holdings Limited is a Chinese multinational investment holding conglomerate whose subsidiaries specialize in various Internet-related services and products, entertainment, artificial intelligence and technology both in China and globally.

Tencent

Creative

Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. 

Entertainment

The game industry is the economic sector involved in the development, marketing, and monetization of games. It encompasses dozens of job disciplines and its component parts employ thousands of people worldwide.

Gaming

The gaming boom in China continues unabated with a large pipeline of new titles.

KEY STAT | NetEase releases new games to take on Tencent | KrASIA

KEY STAT | NetEase releases new games to take on Tencent

Tencent increased its profits to USD 7.3 billion in the first quarter.

Tencent posts strong Q1 earnings, readies investment boost despite regulatory risk | KrASIA

Tencent posts strong Q1 earnings, readies investment boost despite regulatory risk

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Song Jingli

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

India Tech

Read the stories about Augmented reality (AR), Virtual reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR), know about the trendings and the future of VR/AR/MR industry. 

AR/VR

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

Snapchat crossed 60 million users in the last quarter of 2020 in India, where it is deploying a three-pronged approach of localized content, games, and culturally relevant augmented reality experiences.

Snapchat registers over 100% YoY growth for five consecutive quarters in India | KrASIA

Snapchat registers over 100% YoY growth for five consecutive quarters in India

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

E-Commerce

Indonesia's large agricultural sector is looking to remove inefficiencies through technology.

Agritech firm TaniHub nets USD 65.5 million in round led by MDI Ventures | KrASIA

Agritech firm TaniHub nets USD 65.5 million in round led by MDI Ventures

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Ursula Florene

Singapore

Tiger Brokers and Futu are battling for Gen Z traders in Singapore amid intensifying interest in investments.

Chinese brokerage apps ride on Singapore’s retail trading frenzy | KrASIA

Chinese brokerage apps ride on Singapore’s retail trading frenzy

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