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Tesla’s electric cars, battery storage systems, and solar energy solutions shape sustainable transportation and power grids.

Tesla

The US market serves as both the backbone and the driving force behind global technological advancements.

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

How do goods and people flow worldwide? Examine transport networks, logistics innovations, and policies shaping global connectivity.

Transportation

China

Europe

With pared-down versions of the Model 3 and Model Y, Tesla is testing lower prices in markets where rivals such as BYD and Xiaomi are closing in.

Tesla unveils new budget cars to take aim at China’s EV challengers

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36Kr is China's most influential business and technology network, delivering high-quality content focused on China’s innovation and new economy trends since 2010. With its extensive traffic and network, 36Kr has built a comprehensive database and strong data analytics capabilities to provide insights into China’s technology landscape.

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China’s tech ecosystem serves as a driving force behind the world’s second largest economy, influencing global digital markets.

Explore East Asia’s thriving tech hubs, global electronics producers, and fast-evolving digital platforms shaping cross-border innovation.

East Asia

Pop Mart, a Chinese company, designs and sells toys, figurines, and collectibles, primarily in a blind box format.

What sets the bar for convenience? Examine on-demand platforms, subscription models, and personalization transforming consumer expectations.

Consumer Economy

How do stores adapt to digital shifts? Explore e-commerce integration, inventory analytics, and omnichannel strategies for modern shoppers.

Retail

Surging gold prices are testing traditional jewelers’ pricing power while fueling new experiments in China’s gold market.

As gold prices soar, Pop Mart and Laopu Gold take opposite bets on sparkle

What shapes modern healthcare and agriculture? Examine biotech startups, gene editing, and drug discovery unlocking biological potential.

Biotechnology

What lies beyond familiar frontiers? Investigate emerging tech—like quantum computing and AI—transforming traditional sectors.

Deep Tech

Investors are reassessing de novo drug design as firms close major BD transactions.

AI-driven drugmakers fuel wave of cross-border deals in China

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

Insights | KrASIA

India’s tech landscape blossoms with e-commerce startups, fintech innovations, and IT services shaping a growing digital consumer base.

India

How do clicks replace aisles? Explore global marketplaces, payment solutions, and technology accelerating online retail’s growth.

E-commerce

Homegrown direct-to-consumer or D2C beauty and personal care brands are fast becoming a darling of investors in India.D2C brands bypass the conventional method of multiple supply chain partners by marketing and selling products directly to the consumers. Some of the brands that have gained popularity among millions of Indians over the last couple of years include Nykaa, Sugar, Mamaearth, Wow Skin Science, MyGlamm, Skinkraft, and Plum. Currently, India has over 80 D2C brands across beauty, personal care, cosmetics, and men’s grooming segments.

Indian D2C beauty and personal care brands become a darling of VCs

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

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Moulishree Srivastava

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

Southeast Asia

Indonesia

The verdict is in: Entrepreneurs believe that we are in the golden age for direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands.

We are in the golden age for global consumer brands, entrepreneurs say

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Khamila Mulia

BigBasket delivers groceries online, supplying fresh produce, household essentials, and personal care items to Indian customers.

BigBasket

What changes the way we shop? Review fresh inventory management, dark stores, and logistics driving door-to-door grocery services.

Grocery Delivery

Indian conglomerate Tata Group has acquired a 68% stake in online grocery startup BigBasket, making the duo one of the strongest players in the booming e-grocery segment.

BigBasket's ingenious journey to crack India's complex e-grocery market

BigBasket&#8217;s ingenious journey to crack India&#8217;s complex e-grocery market

How is healthcare going digital? Investigate telemedicine, wearable sensors, and data-driven platforms improving patient experiences.

Health Tech

Thailand

Thailand's teleconsulting startups hope to reform the country's inefficient healthcare system, but regulatory hurdles hinder mass adoption.

Teleconsulting startups kick pandemic blues for Thailand’s medical tourism industry

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Stephanie Li

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

How do markets shape wealth creation? Study portfolio diversification, asset classes, and strategies balancing growth and risk.

Investment

Aside from making investment easier for young Indonesians, the firm aims to increase the country's financial literacy.

Ajaib wants to be an investment platform and teacher for Indonesian millennials | Startup Stories

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Ursula Florene

JD.com, a Chinese e-commerce leader, ensures trusted transactions, efficient logistics, and a wide product selection for online shoppers.

JD.com

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

Logistics

JD Logistics

supply chain

JD.com (NASDAQ: JD), one of China’s largest retailers, built its brand by cultivating an in-house logistics network that gives its services a sheen of timeliness and reliability. This made it stand out among China’s myriad of retailers, including Alibaba’s popular Taobao.com. Now, JD Logistics operates as a subsidiary that has taken on a life of its own—if all goes according to plan, it will be the fourth company in the JD network to have shares listed on a stock exchange, after JD.com itself, Dada Nexus, and JD Health.

JD Logistics looks to deliver the goods

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Lin Lingyi

The Middle East’s growing tech ecosystem harnesses the enterprising spirit of innovators from its diverse cultural markets.

Middle East

When do companies invite public investment? Understand listing criteria, underwriter roles, and regulatory steps defining initial offerings.

What sets the world’s soundtrack? Follow streaming royalties, label strategies, and genre shifts guiding the global music industry’s rhythm.

Music

Last week, Anghami became the first Arab technology company to announce that it’s going public through a listing on the Nasdaq in New York later this year after merging with a SPAC. As part of the deal, the company is expected to receive anywhere between USD 40 million and USD 210 million in cash from the SPAC and a separate PIPE investment.

Anghami’s journey to the public markets: Everything you need to know

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MENAbytes

Advertisers are reassessing the value of social media and their reliance on it. The spread of misinformation has grown to a serious concern, prompting them to seek out alternatives that could offer both rich mobile data as well as scale. Carousell, the Singapore-based online marketplace for secondhand goods, thinks it can fill the void. The newly formed Carousell Media Group is combining its different platforms, and the first-party data contained therein, managing director JJ Eastwood told KrASIA in a recent interview. The firm is so able to resolve concerns with a "one-stop ad solution."

Passionate community propels ad revenues at Carousell

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Shannen Tan

Singapore

The city-state, one of Asia's bigger financial centers, is emerging as a trading hub for digital securities, or security tokens backed by financial assets. Exchanges to trade these innovative securities are being set up by both local and external players, which hope to attract issuers and investors to their platforms. Growth in Singapore is also spurring initiatives in other Asian countries such as Thailand and Japan, confirming its regional hub status.

Singapore emerges as Asia's digital securities trading hub

Singapore emerges as Asia&#8217;s digital securities trading hub

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