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Following more than 37 deaths and 1,800 lung injury cases related to e-cigarettes in the United States.

A destructive blow for China's e-cigarette makers as online sales are now banned | KrASIA

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A destructive blow for China&#8217;s e-cigarette makers as online sales are now banned

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

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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

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

The Chinese giant is trying to take over on Douyin and Kuaishou.

Tencent merges its team in charge of short-video app Huoguo with Tencent Video division | KrASIA

Tencent merges its team in charge of short-video app Huoguo with Tencent Video division

Transport or transportation is the movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. 

Transportation

The global commercial UAV market is expected to grow to USD 103.7 billion in 2023.

Chinese passenger drone maker EHang files for US IPO on Nasdaq | KrASIA

Chinese passenger drone maker EHang files for US IPO on Nasdaq

The automotive aftermarket is the secondary market of the automotive industry, concerned with the manufacturing, remanufacturing, distribution, retailing, and installation of all vehicle parts, chemicals, equipment, and accessories, after the sale of the automobile by the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) to the consumer. 

Automotive Aftermarket

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

The e-commerce penetration rate in the auto maintenance market was only 5% in 2018.

Chinese auto parts e-commerce platform Casstime raises USD 80 million in Series C1, led by Sequoia and Source Code | KrASIA

Chinese auto parts e-commerce platform Casstime raises USD 80 million in Series C1, led by Sequoia and Source Code

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

In computer science, artificial intelligence (AI), sometimes called machine intelligence, is intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence displayed by humans and animals.

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

Is its business as perfect as it describes?

JD Digits-backed Meili Auto files for US IPO | KrASIA

JD Digits-backed Meili Auto files for US IPO

5G is a commonly used term for certain advanced wireless systems. Industry association 3GPP defines any system using "5G NR" software as "5G", a definition that came into general use by late 2018. 

Peak transmission rates of 5G networks in 24 provincial regions are the fastest worldwide.

China starts to commercialize 5G in 50 cities, offering 5G data packages as low as USD 18 per month | KrASIA

China starts to commercialize 5G in 50 cities, offering 5G data packages as low as USD 18 per month

Transsion

Hardware, in the context of technology, refers to the physical elements that make up a computer or electronic system and everything else involved that is physically tangible. 

Hardware

Smartphones

Profit increase related to foreign currency futures.

Transsion sees 732% net profit increase, but not from selling phones | KrASIA

Transsion sees 732% net profit increase, but not from selling phones

Ant Financial Services Group, formerly known as Alipay, is an affiliate company of the Chinese Alibaba Group. Ant Financial is the highest valued fintech company in the world, and the world's most valuable unicorn company, with a valuation of US$150 billion. 

Ant Group

Behind the company's fast expansion there are also billions of net loss.

Ant Financial-backed Danke Apartment files for US IPO, following Q&amp;K | KrASIA

Ant Financial-backed Danke Apartment files for US IPO, following Q&amp;K

Meituan-Dianping is a Chinese group buying website for locally found food delivery services, consumer products and retail services. The company is headquartered in Beijing and was founded in 2010 by Wang Xing. The Meituan.com site offers deals of the day by selling vouchers on local services and entertainment.

Meituan

The move follows developments that were shaped by Tencent, Alipay, Baidu, and ByteDance.