Candy Crush-powered challenger enters Vietnam's edtech market

Learning from popular game, Sweden's Astrid faces potent rivals of its English app

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Astrid's engaging interface rewards learners for progress and encourages them to keep playing. (Source photos by Yuki Kohara)

LIEN HOANG, Nikkei staff writer

HO CHI MINH CITY -- The coronavirus pandemic is fueling a boom in Vietnam's online learning market, and Swedish startup Astrid is taking lessons from the world of mobile gaming to grab a slice of it.

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