Naphjas Inc. |

04 Apr China’s climate goals: action plan calling for renewal of equipment can also boost green transition, experts say

Posted at 11:09h in Asia

China wants to ditch old equipment and products for new ones to boost its economy, and this campaign can help its green-transformation drive if done right, climate experts and green enterprises said.In an action plan released last month, the State Council, China’s cabinet, called for...

04 Apr Asian dating app start-ups think they’ve cracked the code to disrupt Tinder and Bumble

Posted at 11:00h in Asia

When Singaporean entrepreneur Douglas Gan launched his dating-focused mobile platform YouApp in 2023, there was little to differentiate it from established players like Tinder and Bumble – then a major revamp changed everything.In January, Gan added a number of personality tests targeting specific demographics and...

04 Apr Home-grown hydrogen energy start-up Epago aims to tap Hong Kong’s innovation ecosystem to expand to China and overseas

Posted at 06:07h in Asia

Having started out as a research project looking at fuel cell electrodes at HKSTP, the company has developed a new structure of membrane electrode assemblies (MEA), the most critical component of hydrogen fuel cell batteries which makes it possible to convert hydrogen into electricity.Because of...

04 Apr Apple’s ‘next big thing’: home robotics take precedence at iPhone maker after electric car cancelled

Posted at 04:04h in Asia

Apple has teams investigating a push into personal robotics, a field with the potential to become one of the company’s ever-shifting “next big things”, according to people familiar with the situation.Engineers at Apple have been exploring a mobile robot that can follow users around their...

04 Apr Chinese cultivated meat producer CellX expands to fermentation, eyeing boom in global demand for alternative proteins

Posted at 02:00h in Asia

CellX, a Shanghai-based cultivated meat start-up, is betting biomass fermentation from edible mushrooms will be the next frontier in the alternative protein market, as animal cell-based protein products face uncertain regulatory resistance overseas and amid a longer timeline for large-scale commercialisation.Cultivated meat is produced by...

03 Apr China’s Communist Party finance organ draws institutional road map for sector

Posted at 22:00h in Asia

China’s 461-trillion-yuan (US$63.7 trillion) financial industry and its regulatory regime will be heavily prioritised in a broad economic reshuffle engendered by the country’s top leadership, with the sector remoulded to serve national objectives like sustainable growth and advancement in the global tech race.The Central Financial...

03 Apr Chinese EV maker Aion plans Indonesia plant, vying against rivals like BYD for slice of promising Southeast Asia market

Posted at 12:36h in Asia

Aion, an electric vehicle (EV) unit of state-owned Chinese company GAC Group, plans to build its second Southeast Asia plant in Indonesia, upping its stake in the potentially vast market against domestic rivals like BYD.Guangzhou-based Aion will partner with Indomobil Group, a carmaker based in...

03 Apr Hong Kong pledges to step up expansion of innovation and technology talent pool, bolstering city’s hi-tech hub ambitions

Posted at 10:30h in Asia

He also cited how China’s 14th five-year plan for 2021-25 supports the city’s “development into an international I&T centre”.Some of the prominent speakers and guests at the 2nd Global Innovation & Technology Summit, held at the Hong Kong Science Park in Sha Tin, on April...

03 Apr Opinion | Instead of labels like ESG, let’s prioritise good old integrity

Posted at 08:30h in Asia

And then, there is ESG – short for environmental, social and corporate governance. In recent years, more architects have found themselves attending to the ESG agenda, which concerns a company’s business model, strategies and initiatives, and how it can provide services and products with a...

03 Apr Why people are at the heart of Deutsche Bank’s success in China and Asia-Pacific

Posted at 08:00h in Asia

Many organisations around the world are experiencing a period of rapid transformation as a result of economic, environmental and social pressures, challenging traditional business models and driving a reinvention of the workplace environment.A PwC survey last year of more than 19,000 employees from organisations across...

Asia