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.
ZaloPay isn’t trying to be Vietnam’s everything app. It’s trying to be the payments layer inside the app that already is — Zalo, the messaging platform used by 98% of … Read more
MoMo isn’t just Vietnam’s most popular e-wallet. It’s the country’s definitive case study in how a mobile payments startup can grow into a full-blown financial super app — and finally … Read more
Vietnam’s e-wallet market crossed 100 million active users in early 2026 (Ken Research, 2026), and two platforms account for the bulk of the action. MoMo, the standalone fintech super app … Read more
Southeast Asia’s super app market surpassed $58 billion in 2025 and is growing at over 30% CAGR (Grand View Research). Three companies sit at the centre of that expansion: Grab … Read more
Every few months, a new narrative about Vietnam’s gaming market circulates in investment memos, conference panels, and analyst decks. The story usually goes something like this: Vietnam is a massive, … Read more
Vietnam’s new 5G infrastructure could have just made premium gaming affordable. Vietnam deployed 30,000 5G base stations reaching 90% population coverage since commercial launch in October 2024. Average speeds hit … Read more
When Vietnam’s Gaming Market Became Non-Negotiable December 25, 2024, marks when Decree 147 Vietnam enforcement redefined gaming access in Vietnam. Foreign companies lost the option to serve 70+ million Vietnamese … Read more