Japan’s long relationship with Thailand is expanding into smart cities, digital infrastructure, gaming, entertainment and platform partnerships. Japan has been Thailand’s largest cumulative foreign investor for decades, and the digital … Read more
Chinese platforms, payments, ecommerce, EVs and travel flows are reshaping Thailand’s consumer and digital economy. Thailand’s e-commerce market grew faster than any other Southeast Asian country in 2025, and Chinese … Read more
A working tracker of who owns e-commerce GMV across fifteen Asian markets. Shopee, Coupang, Rakuten, Taobao, Flipkart — every leader is Asian-headquartered.
A working tracker of who owns mobile payments across fifteen Asian markets. Alipay and WeChat Pay in China, UPI in India, GCash in the Philippines, and a region-specific stack everywhere else.
How Asian gamers actually spend their time and money — by market. Mobile MOBAs in SEA, mobile gacha in Japan, premium PC and console in Korea, and a regulated mainland Chinese market that still sets the pace globally.
A tour through the benchmarks that actually measure LLM performance in Asian languages — Nejumi, KMMLU, BnMMLU, SEA-HELM — and what they tell us about the frontier vs domestic gap.
A working tracker of where ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and the major Chinese LLMs are accessible across fifteen Asian markets. Last updated April 2026.
Lazada isn’t the biggest e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia — it hasn’t been for a while. But it might be the most interesting one right now. Backed by approximately $7.7 … Read more
Thailand’s digital economy isn’t just growing—it’s become the second-largest in Southeast Asia, behind only Indonesia, and the velocity is accelerating. As of Q1 2026, the market reached 5.6 trillion baht, … Read more
TikTok Shop grew from $4.4B to $45.6B GMV in SEA in 4 years. Here’s how it disrupted the entire region.