Asia

Platform work has freed people from oppressive workplace culture. For now.

Shariah-compliant e-commerce is a $160 million business in Indonesia, but compliance is no easy task.

Forensic analysis by CitizenLab says government is the likeliest perpetrator.

"Nepotism," "collusion": a state-owned company is under scrutiny for its multimillion-dollar investment in the tech giant.

Young people are doubting the Korean dream – but the tech companies that offer them a way out might be in their own, progressive bubble.

If the government appoints itself Guardian of the Internet, its citizens will never learn how to navigate a messy online world.

Funding is drying up, and layoffs are skyrocketing: “There was no notice. There was an email in the morning and then a town hall.”

And Jakarta's unfashionably slow-growing companies feel pretty good.

Can the marquee crypto game Axie Infinity survive in-game turmoil and a record-breaking hack?

Content is king in Malaysia’s red-hot online used car market.

Rising fuel prices and inflation spark tension between drivers, passengers, and the super app.

The Serious Disasters Punishment Act was meant to be a triumph for workers' safety. Instead, it's spurring companies to erase staff.

High stakes for Jakarta’s tech scene: “Those who can stay alive are the ones who will win the market.”

Many Vietnamese mothers don’t trust local suppliers of baby formula, so they turn to Facebook’s “carry on” stores, which import from abroad.

As TikTok Shop expands across Southeast Asia, will users buy that it’s more than just entertainment?

For decades, the country's tech triumphs have disguised its seized-up digital systems.

Elon Musk’s desire to ‘authenticate all humans’ has users in countries like Myanmar and Saudi Arabia worried for their lives.

“The level of atrocities that have gone unspoken in Myanmar have been quite shocking.”

From the Philippines to Iran, constant distributed denial-of-service attacks are used to intimidate and wear down independent media.

Clouded by doubts, superapp giant extends bookbuild by three days.

Bitcoin fugitives from China made the country a crypto power. Now, they’re being forced to flee — again.

In South Korea’s restaurant trade, consumer feedback has become an obsession: ‘4.6 is unacceptable, 5 seems too fake. The sweet spot is 4.9.’

Christians are flocking to the King James Version Bible app, and the digital trail leads to a Hong Kong shopping district and a Beijing-based developer.

In just a year, guilds boosting players into NFT games raised more than $80 million in Southeast Asia.

In Southeast Asia, take coffee, combine with a dash of e-commerce, and have investors buzzing.

“There are always going to be ways for people to get data out.”

Five ways activists are being targeted in the region.

For many Filipinos, coins are the currency of the internet.

A handful of designers have made their fortunes on the Line app, but now creators fear the market has become saturated.

Lax trading regulations mean that influencers can have a lucrative hustle recommending investments.

Seoul is reining in tech giants Kakao and Naver to save small business — but it might be too little, too late.

Tech companies in the U.S. have long been using Section 230 to argue they are not responsible for content published on their platforms.

With Singapore and Indonesia's superapps finally in reach of U.S. listings, union trouble brews at home.

Crypto is booming on the archipelago. Its proponents aren’t who you’d think.

As Covid-19 threatened the tech supply chain, some companies, including Apple suppliers, went to extreme lengths to keep their products flowing.

In the “smart nation,” robot dogs enforce social distancing and flying taxis are just over the horizon. The reality is very different.