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Electric Vehicles

Mobility

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

Transportation

Indonesia

"The Vietnamese carmaker's factory and ride-hail plans offer an ASEAN foothold.

VinFast expands EVs to Indonesia with thumbs up from Jokowi | KrASIA

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VinFast expands EVs to Indonesia with thumbs up from Jokowi

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

KrASIA

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

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

Malaysia

Singapore

Vietnam

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

Deals in brief: Hukumonline, Pintar, and Pixelmon secure funding, Singapore’s GIC invests in Zum, seven China deals, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: Hukumonline, Pintar, and Pixelmon secure funding, Singapore’s GIC invests in Zum, seven China deals, and more

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KrASIA Writers

ByteDance or Beijing ByteDance Technology Co Ltd. is a Chinese Internet technology company operating several machine learning-enabled content platforms, headquartered in Beijing. It was founded by Zhang Yiming in 2012. ByteDance's core product, Toutiao, is a popular content platform in China.

Bytedance

GoTo

Tiktok

Tokopedia is an Indonesian technology company, sometimes referred to as a unicorn. It was founded in 2009 by William Tanuwijaya and his Bestfriends from Harvard University, Michael Alexander.

Tokopedia

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

E-Commerce

Retail

E-commerce

indonesia

TikTok

The e-commerce landscape in Indonesia has come full circle with TikTok completing its comeback story alongside its newfound partner, Tokopedia.

Tokopedia and TikTok complete merger, cementing e-commerce partnership in Indonesia | KrASIA

Tokopedia and TikTok complete merger, cementing e-commerce partnership in Indonesia

KrASIA Connection curates technology and innovation updates from China.

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Image of Reuben Lai (left) and Gerry Ong, co-founders of Arkadiah.

India

Korea

Deals in brief: Arkadiah, Sygnum, and Addlly AI secure funding, Living Lab Ventures launches biomedical fund, NEX Ventures backs three Indonesian climate tech startups, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: Arkadiah, Sygnum, and Addlly AI secure funding, Living Lab Ventures launches biomedical fund, NEX Ventures backs three Indonesian climate tech startups, and more

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

The Kompas Gramedia unit sees promise in using blockchain technology to defend intellectual property.

Indonesian book giant turns to tech to fight piracy | KrASIA

Indonesian book giant turns to tech to fight piracy

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

Alibaba

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

China Tech

Lazada

Sea Group

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

Shopee

Philippines

Thailand

Several contenders exist, but the verdict on the future leader of Southeast Asia's e-commerce market remains pending.

Southeast Asian e-commerce: TikTok disrupts the market, Shopee and Lazada navigate defensive dilemmas | KrASIA

Southeast Asian e-commerce: TikTok disrupts the market, Shopee and Lazada navigate defensive dilemmas

Agriculture

Climate

Deep Tech

Farmers in Indonesia say they need to shift their mindset and practices to adapt to changing conditions.

Indonesian farmers turn to agroforestry and organic techniques amid rising costs and adverse weather | KrASIA

Indonesian farmers turn to agroforestry and organic techniques amid rising costs and adverse weather

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Mongabay

Bringing you the latest news briefs on fundraising activities in the Asia Pacific.

Deals in brief: AC Ventures raises USD 210 million at final close of fifth fund, Sony scraps merger with India’s Zee, nine China deals, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: AC Ventures raises USD 210 million at final close of fifth fund, Sony scraps merger with India’s Zee, nine China deals, and more

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

Travel

Cambodia

Japan

Myanmar

The world's biggest foreign travel market is hurt by weak economy and safety concerns.

In charts: How Asia's tourism recovery is held back by stay-home Chinese | KrASIA

In charts: How Asia&#8217;s tourism recovery is held back by stay-home Chinese

Temasek Holdings Private Limited is a Singaporean holding company owned by the Government of Singapore.

Temasek

Deals in brief: Xefco, Thrixen, and Salmon secure funding, Temasek invests in US-based Blaize, ten China and India deals, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: Xefco, Thrixen, and Salmon secure funding, Temasek invests in US-based Blaize, ten China and India deals, and more

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Marvin Goh

Electric vehicle

Weaker earnings spotlight the state players' overreliance on the likes of Nissan and Honda

China's foreign automotive joint ventures lose luster under EV onslaught | KrASIA

China&#8217;s foreign automotive joint ventures lose luster under EV onslaught

Taobao

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

Tmall

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

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

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

Tencent’s latest update to WeChat Pay targets an improved mobile payment experience for foreign visitors to China. How does it compare to Alipay?