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While China’s tea chains race to open stores, Molly Tea is opting for a more measured expansion. Will this strategy give it an edge, or leave it lagging behind?

Molly Tea isn’t rushing into China’s tea wars—could that be the smarter move? | KrASIA

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Molly Tea isn’t rushing into China’s tea wars—could that be the smarter move?

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

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KrASIA Connection curates technology and innovation updates from China.

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Angel Investing

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

Indonesia

Singapore

Bringing you the latest updates on funding deals and activities in the Asia Pacific.

Deals in brief: MindWorks Capital raises USD 220 million for new fund, Chickin and watchTowr reportedly bag Series A funding, four China deals, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: MindWorks Capital raises USD 220 million for new fund, Chickin and watchTowr reportedly bag Series A funding, four China deals, and more

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KrASIA Writers

Baidu

Bringing together the latest business insights and trends of China's tech ecosystem.

China Tech

Autonomous Vehicles is about self-driving. A self-driving car is also known as a robot car, autonomous car, or driverless car, is a vehicle that is capable of sensing its environment and moving with little or no human input.

Autonomous Vehicles

Mobility

An on-demand service platform connects waiting-time-sensitive customers with independent service providers.

On-Demand Services

Ride-hailing encompasses a range of companies and services, including traditional taxis and car services. 

Ride-hailing

With plans to launch in Hong Kong, Singapore, and the Middle East, Baidu’s robotaxi service aims to break new ground as competition in self-driving intensifies.

Baidu’s Apollo Go eyes global expansion as robotaxi race heats up | KrASIA

Baidu’s Apollo Go eyes global expansion as robotaxi race heats up

Q&amp;A

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Can the region continue to entice investors for years to come?

Gobi Partners Chairman Thomas Tsao on Southeast Asia's innovation and the next big wave | KrASIA

Gobi Partners Chairman Thomas Tsao on Southeast Asia&#8217;s innovation and the next big wave

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Thu Huong Le

Read stories of Travel service providers, platforms or the trending of the travel industry.

Travel

Early Gojek-backers Northstar and Openspace invested in this Myanmarese online travel and ride-hailing platform.

Ride-hailing to be a big revenue contributor in Myanmar in five years: Oway CEO Alok Kumar | KrASIA

Ride-hailing to be a big revenue contributor in Myanmar in five years: Oway CEO Alok Kumar

Ola Cabs, is an Indian origin online transportation network company developed by ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd. As of December 2018, Ola was valued at about $5.7 billion. A variety of venture capitalists including Softbank have large stakes in the company.

A handful of Indian tech startups are looking at going public in the next couple of years.

Indian unicorns to pile up for IPO in five years: Blume Ventures CFO Ashish Fafadia | KrASIA

Indian unicorns to pile up for IPO in five years: Blume Ventures CFO Ashish Fafadia

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Avanish Tiwary

Robotics

China has set a goal of producing 100,000 locally made industrial robots annually by 2020.

China’s robotics makers need to innovate to catch up with foreign peers | KrASIA

China’s robotics makers need to innovate to catch up with foreign peers

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SCMP

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

Logistics is generally the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation. In a general business sense, logistics is the management of the flow of things between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet requirements of customers or corporations. 

Logistics

In a market also eyed by strong contenders such as Meituan and JD.com, will FlashEx’s new strategies work?

A speed race: Chinese express courier FlashEx charges toward intense competition | KrASIA

A speed race: Chinese express courier FlashEx charges toward intense competition

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Sun Henan

aCommerce Thailand CEO Phensiri Sathianvongnusar.

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

E-Commerce

Phensiri speaks about the company’s rapid rise in Thailand.

"E-commerce in Southeast Asia is a marathon, not a sprint”: aCommerce Thailand CEO Phensiri Sathianvongnusar | KrASIA

&#8220;E-commerce in Southeast Asia is a marathon, not a sprint”: aCommerce Thailand CEO Phensiri Sathianvongnusar

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Giovanni Puglisi

Operated both as C2C and B2C models, Sendo currently serves more than 300,000 sellers and 10 millions of buyers across Vietnam.

How Vietnamese e-commerce platform Sendo captures consumers outside big cities | KrASIA

How Vietnamese e-commerce platform Sendo captures consumers outside big cities

Electric Vehicles

Indonesia’s largest taxi operator launched a fleet of 30 electric vehicles in May.

Chief of taxi giant Blue Bird shares lessons learned from operating Indonesia's first EV fleet | KrASIA

Chief of taxi giant Blue Bird shares lessons learned from operating Indonesia&#8217;s first EV fleet

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Cindy Silviana

LazMall is on track or ahead of target, says Jing Yin.

A clear demand for quality branded products in Southeast Asia: Jing Yin, president of commercial at Lazada | KrASIA

A clear demand for quality branded products in Southeast Asia: Jing Yin, president of commercial at Lazada

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Q&A

Gobi Partners Chairman Thomas Tsao on Southeast Asia’s innovation and the next big wave