Asian Delivery Robots are Making a Comeback

The Covid-19 may have limited business for many companies, but the delivery service business is booming. Robotic delivery services can promise contactless delivery, a highly sought-after service under mandates of social distancing. While autonomous delivery robots were already in use in some urban areas, airports, universities, hotels, and large corporate campuses prior to the pandemic, demand for them is expanding exponentially since they couldn’t be infected with the novel coronavirus as human delivery drivers could.

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Asian Tech Companies Are Battling Over E-Signatures

Tencent recently launched its electronic signature platform, which provides enterprises and individual users with secure and convenient electronic contract signing and corresponding evidence preservation services. Users can sign an online contract with a designated party under the premise of real-name authentication, and save the signing process and results through blockchain technology throughout the entire process to ensure the validity of the contract.

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Southeast Asia is Integrating Fragmented Digital Payment Market

Southeast Asia has become a focus area for all parties in the digital payment industry. However, the market is quite fragmented, with competition and collaboration amongst e-wallet-based mobile payment operators, acquirers, and traditional card-based issuers, as well as settlement networks.

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The Rise of Homegrown Chinese Labels in Beauty and Fashion

Chinese brands are winning increasingly more domestic consumers in recent years, especially among the younger generation. The percentage of keyword searches for Chinese brands surged to more than two-thirds among all the searches on Baidu, up from only about one-third 10 years earlier, according to a report released by People.cn.

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