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Elon Musk took a jab at Taylor Swift after she endorsed Kamala Harris — and now China's Swifties are up in arms
Taylor Swift fans are really angry with Elon Musk after he slammed Swift for her endorsement of Vic…
Cheryl Teh,Kwan Wei Kevin Tan
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Chinese authorities used bubble wrap to secure a hand grenade kept by villagers for 20 years to smash nuts and hammer nails
A video posted by the Baokang Public Security Bureau showed two men in hard hats and a uniformed of…
Matthew Loh
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China's birth rate continues to fall as women resist 3-child policy
A recent report has shown that even as the Chinese Communist Party offers young newlyweds 30 days o…
ANI
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China's internet is filled with well-wishes for earthquake-stricken Taiwan — and veiled references that the PLA can help
The positive messages are a striking departure from the recent online hostility to Taiwan, even if …
Matthew Loh
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Chinese social media users react to the Texas school shooting: 'Is this the price of America's freedom?'
The shooting was a trending topic in China, with a hashtag related to the incident getting more tha…
Waiyee Yip
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Millions across China are having an absolutely miserable time as blizzards snare their annual cross-country exodus
Freezing rain and blizzards have left people in China stranded at highways and train stations as th…
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan
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Elon Musk's viral Chinese doppelgänger, Yilong Ma, has been suspended from China's versions of TikTok and Twitter
Musk just last week expressed his desire to meet Yilong Ma — a Chinese man who went viral for…
Cheryl Teh
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Meet the 'most handsome man in China' — a Tibetan yak herder who's threatening to sue online critics for claiming he's just a pretty face
Tibetan herder Dingzhen Zhenzhu is hitting back at his critics who have mocked him for being the ep…
Cheryl Teh
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Some Chinese social media users cheered Elon Musk's Twitter purchase as a win for free speech, others said the takeover reflects the sins of capitalism
"Money plus public opinion. Are you not invincible? You will soar," wrote one user of China's Twitt…
Matthew Loh
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Billionaire's son and influencer banned from posting on China's Twitter-like Weibo platform after questioning a Beijing-endorsed Covid drug
Despite a lack of reliable clinical data, Chinese authorities have recommended traditional Chinese …
Waiyee Yip
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China's 'Twitter' appears to be censoring content about food shortages in Shanghai as residents struggle amid a harsh COVID-19 lockdown
Weibo users have been tagging posts with "buying groceries in Shanghai" to voice their frustration …
Waiyee Yip,Weilun Soon
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Social media users in China are obsessing over Russian cats being banned from international competitions following the invasion of Ukraine
The search term "Russian cats are banned" went viral on China's Twitter-like Weibo, getting more th…
Cheryl Teh
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Americans are sharing their paychecks on TikTok and the Chinese are sharing their savings accounts on Weibo, but their point is the same: Everyone's broke
If this week's social media trends in China and the US are any indication, it looks like the two co…
Lina Batarags
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The Twitter of China said it has banned 10,000 social-media accounts for posting 'vulgar' content ridiculing the invasion of Ukraine
Crude jokes about taking in fleeing Ukrainian women began trending on China's Twitter-like platform…
Waiyee Yip
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China's powerful social media platform Weibo has dubbed these Olympic athletes and teams the darlings and demons of the Beijing Games
Weibo praised Japanese figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu and Chinese skier Eileen Gu, but attacked figure …
Matthew Loh,Cheryl Teh
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Weibo users angered by a Chinese snowboarder's controversial gold medal loss posted memes of the Olympics' panda mascot running a judge over with a bobsled
The coach of Su Yiming, who lost the men's slopestyle gold medal due to a judging error, has urged …
Matthew Loh
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The internet helped a Chinese teenager find the parents who sold him as a baby. When they rejected him, he took his own life.
Liu Xuezhou's search for his biological parents captured nationwide attention — but also put …
Matthew Loh
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A Chinese company is making its 100 workers run 2 miles every day if they want to get a better bonus
The company says it will give 130% of a month's salary as an annual bonus if the employee runs 62 m…
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan
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A top Chinese live-streaming influencer known as Viya was fined roughly $210 million for tax evasion, agency says
The internet celebrity evaded or underpaid taxes totaling 703 million yuan, or $110 million, betwee…
Kieran Press-Reynolds
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The Chinese government might be releasing videos to reassure the world that Peng Shuai is alive and well, but her presence on the country's social media has been scrubbed clean
Mentions of Peng — who accused a top Chinese official of sexually assaulting her — appear to have b…