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How are driverless systems redefining mobility? Uncover sensor technologies, regulatory frameworks, and AI driving cars without human intervention.

Autonomous Vehicles

How is the way we move evolving? Explore developments in autonomous transportation, electric vehicles, and more efficient urban transit.

Mobility

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Smart driving, customized vehicles, and AI-powered operations must work together to make driverless mobility commercially viable.

CaoCao Mobility’s RoboX plan targets autonomous driving’s next phase

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

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TVs and air conditioners drive gains as lower prices and upgraded features appeal to younger buyers.

Chinese appliance brands gain ground in Southeast Asia

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What guides machine-led insights? Uncover AI applications, language models, and decision-making systems transforming sectors worldwide.

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

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How does automation advance industry? Analyze robotic arms, drones, and AI-driven tools reshaping manufacturing and services.

Robotics

Data standards and real-world deployment remain key barriers to progress.

Robotics will not get its “GPT moment” by following LLMs, Agibot chief scientist says

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

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

Biotechnology

Executives seek “skin in the game” despite signs of a stock market cooldown.

Global drugmakers eye more China biotech deals after record year

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

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

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What happens after acquisitions close? Examine deal structures, operational improvements, and exit strategies molding corporate outcomes.

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Bringing you the latest updates on funding and investment activity across the Asia Pacific.

Deals in brief: Vertex Ventures backs ReN3 and Formas.ai; Featherless and SiamDL raise Series A funding; latest China investments, and more

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

Dreame

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

East Asia

What powers tomorrow’s roads? Explore EV adoption, charging infrastructure, and battery advances sparking the shift toward sustainable transport.

Electric Vehicles

The company’s weeklong Silicon Valley launch highlighted both ambition and risk appetite.

Dreame’s next act stretches from robot vacuums to rocket-boosted cars

Li Auto develops electric vehicles that combine smart cockpit systems, advanced safety features, and long-distance battery support.

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Here’s a roundup of key developments across the Middle East that took place between April 26 and May 2.

Middle East weekly: Li Auto expands UAE, Saudi footprint; UAE launches industrial fund; Qatar rolls out business measures; and more

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

Executives said the priority for now is to build richer experiences around its characters, not to chase profit.

Pop Mart announces upgrade to Beijing theme park Pop Land

The robotics company is the latest of Hangzhou’s “six little dragons” to show substantive IPO progress.

Deep Robotics completes IPO tutoring, moving closer to Star Market listing

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Japan

Weak venture funding and smaller home markets drive them to expand abroad.

Southeast Asia's deep tech startups look to Japan for growth

Southeast Asia&#8217;s deep tech startups look to Japan for growth

Europe

Automakers no longer need foreign joint venture partners as they expand overseas.

China's carmakers surge past Japan, European peers with AI, battery tech

China&#8217;s carmakers surge past Japan, European peers with AI, battery tech

The yard robotics company marks a mass production milestone.