1. The China Internet Report published by South China Morning Post reveals how Chinese tech firms have gone from copycats to trailblazers 

2. Young.chinaso.com 花漾搜索, a search engine for teens designed to filter out inappropriate content, is launched by Xinhua News Agency 新华社

3. BAT becomes JAT on Fortune China 500 as JD.com 京东 improves and Baidu 百度 fails to keep up

4. Ctrip 携程 launches in-app ride-hailing service across 47 countries in Southeast Asia, the US and Europe, integrating overseas mainstream platforms such as Grab

BEAM offers fund raising assistance sessions for companies in Malaysia that are struggling in fund raising

5. Didi 滴滴 launching a ‘return lost items’ function 

6. Rokit launches $50 million indie game development fund

7. Japan’s Daiwa readies fund to invest in Myanmar startups

8. Runa Capital closes $70M for its third fund aimed at early-stage ‘deep tech’

9. Tiger Global, Sequoia lead $60m funding in industrial B2B startup Moglix

10. Singapore’s medical diagnostics startup One BioMed raises US$5M Series A

11. Mexico’s premier mortgage lender, Smart Lending, scores funding from DILA Capital

12. German digital banking startup N26 makes U.S. foray

This article is contributed by partners Chinaccelerator & BEAM