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Crypto regulation must be innovative
Asia focus, Suwatchai Songwanich, Published on 19/04/2021
» India's government made global headlines last month with news of its proposed ban on the possession, issuance, mining, trading and transferring of cryptocurrencies and crypto-assets. If passed, the law would make India the first country to make cryptocurrencies illegal.
The 6G revolution
Asia focus, Suwatchai Songwanich, Published on 12/04/2021
» While many countries are only starting to roll out 5G, China is already focusing on the development of 6G -- the next-generation mobile technology that will be orders of magnitude faster than its predecessor and a key enabler of the Internet of Things.
China conquers the gaming universe
Asia focus, Suwatchai Songwanich, Published on 07/12/2020
» Tencent's flagship video game Honour of Kings has become the first online game ever to average more than 100 million daily active users. It was also the world's most lucrative mobile game in September with approximately US$240 million in sales.
China's e-commerce evolution
Asia focus, Suwatchai Songwanich, Published on 28/09/2020
» China's government is preparing to accelerate the growth of its already rapidly expanding e-commerce sector by establishing 15 new national e-commerce demonstration bases. These are industry clusters for e-commerce companies and the incubation platforms needed to foster the sector's development.
The Internet of Bodies
Asia focus, Suwatchai Songwanich, Published on 06/07/2020
» Surveilling people's health data via wearable devices has gained momentum with contact and health tracking during the coronavirus outbreak.
The rise of digital farming
Asia focus, Suwatchai Songwanich, Published on 18/05/2020
» Global food supply chains have been heavily disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, highlighting the need to produce food more sustainably and locally and reduce the distance between farm and fork.
A new direction for biopharma in China
Asia focus, Suwatchai Songwanich, Published on 04/05/2020
» While many industries will be in recovery mode for some time to come, one sector that can expect strong growth in China is the biotech and biopharmaceutical industries.
The race to space heats up
Asia focus, Suwatchai Songwanich, Published on 13/01/2020
» As the last decade ended, China successfully launched Long March 5, its largest carrier rocket and a key milestone for its planned mission to Mars later this year. This followed the achievement of being the first country to land a spacecraft on the far side of the moon, cementing China's place as a serious contender in 21st century space exploration -- a race that is certainly heating up.
Food delivery needs to get greener
Asia focus, Suwatchai Songwanich, Published on 06/01/2020
» China is home to the world's largest online food delivery market, estimated to be worth US$37 billion in 2019, with rapid growth at 35% year-on-year in the third quarter alone. An online poll by National Business Daily found almost 23% of respondents ordered takeaway food every day, with nearly 52% saying they ordered it one to five times a week.
The new face of shopping: Live streaming
Asia focus, Suwatchai Songwanich, Published on 09/12/2019
» Live streaming is taking China by storm, becoming one of the key e-commerce platforms during the Singles Day sales that broke records once again last month.