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Ask HN: What are the most reliable tech sites in east and south Asia?
Almost all of my tech news comes via HN, SubStack, Twitter and Reddit, but they only occasionally cite blogs or reports from China, Japan, South Korea or India - countries where a significant proportion of technology is built, designed, or supported from.
While there is a lot of tech news related to what is going on in those countries (often for the wrong reasons), it’s hard to gage what the tech ecosystem is up to without knowing where to look.
Language barriers aside (which are becoming less of an issue anyway), where would one go for reliable and direct news around semiconductor developments in Taiwan, or the weird products that emerge out of Shenzhen through AliExpress?
Is there an HN of India? Or Indonesia?
- firstbabylonian 3y agohttps://restofworld.org https://restofworld.org is a good place to start.
- TheRealHB 3y agoInteresting news aggregator (looks like), nice one!
- donohoe 3y agoNot a news aggregator - all original reporting
- KRAKRISMOTT 3y agoEric Schmidt's daughter's pet project is hardly an unbiased source.
- awongh 3y agoAsianometry is good youtube channel: https://youtube.com/@Asianometry https://youtube.com/@Asianometry
- rouslyrunn 3y agohttps://fossbytes.com/ https://fossbytes.com/ is India's equivalent of The Verge
- pdevr 3y agoHome page is full of thin affiliate pages. I clicked the "News" link at top, and it seems to be a page with links to affiliate pages of movies.
- hero1234 3y ago[flagged]
- angadsg 3y agohttps://www.techinasia.com/ https://www.techinasia.com/ -- they have high quality tech journalism for Asia
- greggsy 3y agoThis actually had some good focus on Indonesia and SEA in general, which was a pleasant surprise
- SenHeng 3y agoJapanese tech news site sort of like Gizmodo from the 90s. https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/ https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/
- vasili111 3y agoHow popular is this website in Japan?
- notjulianjaynes 3y agoThere's a disclaimer about the stories being machine translated, but I'd still like to know how "Elon Musk" became "Earon Mask."[1] [1] https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20230529-elon-musk-cut-twitter-spaces-team-failed/ https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20230529-elon-musk-cut-twit...
- jezzamon 3y agoJapanese is limited in what phonetic sounds can be written, so I'm guessing that's just a direct translation of what his name becomes in Japanese
- notjulianjaynes 3y agoAh, yes that makes sense. I wasn't considering that the translation would have been from a completely different alphabet.
- fomine3 3y agoGigazine (jp) is now too much article translated from HN headline. It seems to re-translate to English. Not much worth to read. Its quality isn't good.
- nindalf 3y agoStratechery (https://stratechery.com https://stratechery.com) is written by Ben Thompson, who is based in Taiwan.
- mgt0012 3y agohttps://en.pingwest.com/ https://en.pingwest.com/ from China.
- anaganisk 3y agoInteresting name "Ping West" XD
- arsdragonfly 3y agoDigiTimes Asia has some decent semiconductor industry coverage.
- zkid18 3y agoThe one I'm following https://chinai.substack.com/ https://chinai.substack.com/ https://www.techinasia.com/ https://www.techinasia.com/ https://pandaily.substack.com/ https://pandaily.substack.com/ dealstreetasia.com https://kr-asia.com/ https://kr-asia.com/ chinamoneynetwork.com
- deverman 3y agoI was also going to suggest TechinAsia.com
- pkphilip 3y agoPCQuest: https://www.pcquest.com/ https://www.pcquest.com/
- fredgrott 3y agoI have some Asian and Asiatic ones from my medium blog traffic notes: zk.com apptractor.ru awayvk.com zk stuff usually is in English.
- alephnerd 3y agoFor India+ASEAN (Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Burma, Singapore) I recommend The Ken. It's basically Stratechery but much more informed about the India+SE Asian technology business. It doesn't hurt that most of the writers for it are ex-VCs and PEs who have worked in the India+ASEAN sector for over a decade. Inc42 is decent as well. That said, I'm honestly not impressed with Stratechery anymore. I personally feel the quality of analysis has kinda gone down (sort of feels like he's grasping at straws). But maybe I'm just feeling Dunning-Kruger effect
- avemuri 3y agoIt's quite far from Stratechery. The Ken is more reportage, investigative at times, but clickbaity at other times.
- searchableguy 3y ago+1 to The Ken. It's well worth the subscription.
- muzani 3y ago@ecommurz on Instagram for Indonesia. They communicate in the language of meme, but they do have the latest updates and a strong community. Leaks somehow get there within a day; we joke that you shouldn't share anything on social media that you don't want to see on murz. Malaysia has multiple communities, but Developer Kaki on Facebook is the most representative of the tech community now. https://forum.lowyat.net/ https://forum.lowyat.net/ is more for tech enthusiasts but there's similar overlap without the elitism. Also I think it's interesting to expect a tech community to look like Blind or HN, but in much of the world, it could be a Telegram group or a SMF forum.
- ttanimichi 3y agohttps://b.hatena.ne.jp/hotentry/it https://b.hatena.ne.jp/hotentry/it is an HN of Japan, but I don't think it's reliable enough.
- fomine3 3y agoImpress Watch and ITMedia to read general tech news, reviews, and some analysis. https://www.watch.impress.co.jp/ https://www.watch.impress.co.jp/ https://www.itmedia.co.jp/ https://www.itmedia.co.jp/ Hatena bookmark is now a toxic community in general, but its search feature is useful. Watching good bookmarking user is also interesting. https://b.hatena.ne.jp/q/Ruby?target=title&sort=recent&users=3 https://b.hatena.ne.jp/q/Ruby?target=title&sort=recent&users... zenn.dev and Qiita are like dev.to/substack community. Japan's HN/Reddit equivalent is Twitter but hard to follow/filtering. I'm also interested in Mainland China tech websites.
- pdevr 3y agoSome of these are excellent recommendations, while some are horrible (sorry!). Rather than replying to multiple posts, here is an alternative to consider. Add Google Alerts for the keywords you want - "AliExpress", "taiwan semiconductor", or with wildcards in between as needed. Keep monitoring the alerts for several weeks. You will find a lot of general news sites, but you will also find who really publishes things that are useful and interesting to you. Bonus tip: Once you find these sites, keep monitoring them. Find out where they get their news from. Mostly, they will quote or link to the original source. Go to those places. Those are the pristine sources you want.
- iammukunthan 3y agoTechinAsia.com and Yourstory.com
- ydnaclementine 3y agoAny korean sites? (even if it's in Korean?) interested as a language learner