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Can a free app improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers? Aukrit Unahalekhaka thinks so.

Central banks push projects amid COVID but first mover Cambodia sees slow uptake.

When Alibaba’s investments started faltering, it changed its focus to Southeast Asia and India became a low priority.

As more people are buying beauty products online, companies and platforms are adopting AR technology to simulate an offline shopping experience.

Taking a page from the likes of Pinduoduo, Webuy hosts a fleet of community leaders to funnel groceries to customers in Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia.

With the Indian government amending FDI rules and banning two of its services in the country, Alibaba’s prospects of building a business empire in India came to a dead-end.

Douyin and Pinduoduo have leveraged China’s explosion of mobile internet usage to reach the top echelons of the tech hierarchy.

China’s desire to groom homegrown chip firms has led to a series of multimillion-dollar investments in poorly planned projects, many of which went bankrupt quickly.