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Mapping China’s biotech titans
Mapping China’s biotech sector: Key players, top investors, and funding insights in one report.
Hillhouse, ByteDance, and Shein’s dance around the China question
Hillhouse Capital and Shein may have moved their headquarters to Singapore, but their ties to China run deep.
Inside StashAway’s efforts to cut its losses by half
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Apple to ramp up investment in Vietnam
The US tech titan has since 2019 invested US$15.8 billion through its local supply chain in the country.
Tencent buys maker of hit Nintendo Switch games
Tencent acquired a 90% stake in Japanese gaming studio Wake Up Interactive for nearly US$44 million, Bloomberg reported.
East Ventures leads $1.6m round of AI-backed language learning firm
T-Lab’s Chinese language courses use AI gamification to stimulate students’ interests and keep them engaged.
Chinese livestreaming firm Joyy posts revenue of $578m in Q4
Joyy reported US$578 million in revenue for the last quarter of 2020, but this excludes YY Live, which was sold to Baidu in October.
Report: Messaging app Line allowed Chinese engineers access to data without users’ consent
The engineers were said to have been given access to Line users’ names, telephone numbers and email addresses.
Opinion: The new Chinese sharing economy does not exist
There has been a lot of talk about China’s new sharing economy. But all this misses out on the fact that there is a new Chinese disruptor.
Mark Zuckerberg gives speech in Chinese about having a strong sense of mission
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg was at Beijing’s Tsinghua University on Saturday where he gave a 22-minute speak entirely in Chinese. English subtitles included.




