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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?

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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 | Insights Archives

As American vaping giant Juul enters—and retreats from—the market, domestic e-cigarette makers are bracing for rising headwinds. Who will come out on top?

E-cigarette makers wage war to lure China’s 300 million smokers | KrASIA

E-cigarette makers wage war to lure China’s 300 million smokers

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Low De Wei

Think you know the average Chinese netizen? China’s internet changes faster than you think.

Eight years of huge changes to the world's biggest internet population, visualized | KrASIA

Eight years of huge changes to the world&#8217;s biggest internet population, visualized

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is a Chinese multinational telecommunications equipment and consumer electronics manufacturer, headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. The company was founded in 1987 by Ren Zhengfei, a former People's Liberation Army engineer.

Huawei

China's biggest tech company pledges $1.5bn for more software developers.

Huawei ups cloud computing push in challenge to Amazon and Alibaba | KrASIA

Huawei ups cloud computing push in challenge to Amazon and Alibaba

As part of 36Kr’s ongoing partnership with Nikkei, you can read selected content from Nikkei Asia on KrASIA.

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Nikkei Asia

Rapid digitalization has major ramifications for Southeast Asia’s largest economy.

Tech companies are fundamentally reshaping Indonesia’s economic outlook | KrASIA

Tech companies are fundamentally reshaping Indonesia’s economic outlook

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Samrita Adwani

A blockchain, originally block chain, is a growing list of records, called blocks, which are linked using cryptography. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a timestamp, and transaction data.

Blockchain

BlockPunk created the world's first tokenized anime film.

Julian Lai-Hung of BlockPunk on creating a blockchain anime studio: Startup Stories | KrASIA

Julian Lai-Hung of BlockPunk on creating a blockchain anime studio: Startup Stories

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Zhixin Tan

Alibaba Group Holding Limited is a Chinese multinational conglomerate specializing in e-commerce, retail, Internet and technology. 

Alibaba

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

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

WeChat is a Chinese multi-purpose messaging, social media and mobile payment app developed by Tencent. It was first released in 2011, and by 2018 it was one of the world's largest standalone mobile apps by monthly active users, with over 1 billion monthly active users.

Wechat

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

E-Commerce

An e-commerce payment system facilitates the acceptance of electronic payment for online transactions. Read stories of Payment service providers, platforms or the trending of the Payment industry.

Payments

Security

An estimated 390 million yuan was lost to internet fraud in China last year, a five-year high

Why more of China’s digital-savvy Gen Z youth are falling victim to online fraud than their elders | KrASIA

Why more of China’s digital-savvy Gen Z youth are falling victim to online fraud than their elders

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SCMP

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

Entertainment

Multi-channel networks like Collab Indonesia are helping creators make money online.

How the influencer marketing trend is playing out in Indonesia | KrASIA

How the influencer marketing trend is playing out in Indonesia

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Khamila Mulia

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

UangTeman had a rough start, but it has grown to be one of the most trusted online lenders in Indonesia.

Regulatory compliance is the key to UangTeman's sustainability: Startup Stories | KrASIA

Regulatory compliance is the key to UangTeman&#8217;s sustainability: Startup Stories

Lending

It has partnered with brands and fintech companies to offer social commerce and lending to women.

Sairee Chahal has created a women-only social networking platform: Women in Tech | KrASIA

Sairee Chahal has created a women-only social networking platform: Women in Tech

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