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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

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Bruised by tariffs, the British luxury car maker is considering local production.

Chinese-owned Lotus bets on hybrid SUV for US turnaround

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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

How do goods cross borders seamlessly? Examine warehousing tech, route optimization, and data analytics building efficient supply chains.

Logistics

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

On-demand Services

The strategy helps merchants boost efficiency and minimize tariffs, sidelining Western services.

Chinese door-to-door logistics networks grow in US to counter trade war

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Hong Kong

By connecting businesses across ASEAN and the GBA, Hong Kong can show how hubs create more value together.

Hong Kong's hub ambitions are not a zero-sum game

Hong Kong&#8217;s hub ambitions are not a zero-sum game

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Edric Mak

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

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What entertains a connected world? Track shifts in film, music, and media consumption, as platforms and audiences redefine cultural experiences.

Entertainment

Can brief clips hold lasting impact? Analyze short-form content trends, creator communities, and platform strategies for rapid viewer engagement.

Short Video

The 58-year-old businessman will also serve as chief operating officer of ByteDance.

CHINA BRIEF | ByteDance hires ex-Disney executive as new TikTok CEO

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Song Jingli

SEA to offer $400m convertible notes after losses tripled in Q1

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

Southeast Asia

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

Fintech

How does interactive entertainment evolve? Assess gaming ecosystems, esports growth, and technology enhancing virtual play.

Gaming

Shopee orders are up 111.2% year-on-year, while Garena's paying users grew by 72.5% to 35.7 million.

Sea Group posts a loss, revenues increase to USD 913.9 million in the first quarter of 2020

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Khamila Mulia

China's leading e-scooter company was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic but retains a positive outlook as demand recovers.

Niu reports 34.4% decrease in revenue in Q1 as e-scooter sales plummet during COVID-19 outbreak

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AJ Cortese

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

Tencent Games rolled out an in-house "health system" in 2017 to stem youth gaming addiction. These new rules take that further.

Tencent Games cuts screen time for minors again following government guidelines

Wency Chen is a reporter KrASIA based in Beijing, covering tech innovations in&amp;beyond the Greater China Area. Previously, she studied at Columbia Journalism School and reported on art exhibits, New York public school systems, LGBTQ+ rights, and Asian immigrants. She is also an enthusiastic reader, a diehard fan of indie rock and spicy hot pot, as well as a to-be filmmaker (Let’s see). Follow her on Twitter: @ChenWQ45 Tips go to: wency@kr-asia.com

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Wency Chen

Alibaba, China’s e-commerce giant, operates online retail marketplaces, cloud computing services, and digital payment networks across Asia and beyond.

Swiggy’s Indian delivery network offers food, groceries, and convenience items, catering to busy urban lifestyles.

Swiggy

Zomato, an Indian food delivery platform, lets customers discover eateries, order meals, and explore culinary experiences.

Zomato

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

Last week Zomato also announced cutting 13% of its total workforce.

Swiggy lays off 1,100 employees and shuts other businesses

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Avanish Tiwary

Fore Coffee CEO Elisa Suteja said that it closed several outlets for Ramadan and that it is selling assets.

East Ventures-backed Fore Coffee denies shutdown rumors, sees increase in online sales

How does learning transcend classrooms? Investigate online courses, adaptive learning tools, and global educational platforms.

Education

What grounds digital progress in physical form? Analyze chipsets, sensors, and advanced components driving device performance.

Hardware

A total of 15 million companies have joined Dingtalk, according to the platform's CEO Chen Hang.

CHINA BRIEF | Alibaba's DingTalk reaches 300 million users as COVID-19 shifts life online

CHINA BRIEF | Alibaba&#8217;s DingTalk reaches 300 million users as COVID-19 shifts life online

A survey found that 5.4% of tech firms experienced job cuts while 12.9% have reduced contractors, interns, and part-time employees.

China’s once-resilient tech economy starting to crack under pressure from coronavirus economic carnage

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South China Morning Post

ByteDance, a Chinese internet company, uses machine learning to recommend engaging videos, news, and social content (via TikTok and Douyin).

WeChat, Tencent’s superapp, combines messaging, social media, mobile payments, and mini-programs, streamlining daily tasks for over a billion users.

WeChat

Weishi, Tencent’s short video platform, invites users to create, share, and discover trending clips in a mobile-friendly environment.

Weishi

What guides machine-led insights? Uncover AI applications, language models, and decision-making systems transforming sectors worldwide.

Artificial Intelligence

How are driverless systems redefining mobility? Uncover sensor technologies, regulatory frameworks, and AI driving cars without human intervention.

Autonomous Vehicles

Bytedance is a latecomer in the IoV sector filled with players including Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu.