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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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Weibo soars 48% on report that China's Twitter may go private
A consortium involving Weibo's chairman may offer up to a 100% premium for a potential buyout, Reut…
Carla Mozée
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The Chinese government has reportedly taken stakes in ByteDance and Weibo as its hold on tech tightens
In the wake of the ByteDance news, Sen. Marco Rubio, a noted China hawk, called on the Biden admini…
Ethan Wu
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Meet China's 'Lipstick King,' an outspoken 28-year-old e-commerce streamer who fans adore and brands fear
Austin Li Jiaqi once went head-to-head in a lipstick selling contest against Alibaba founder Jack M…
Cheryl Teh
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Bigwigs at 'China's Uber' Didi and Lenovo have retreated from the social media platform Weibo, joining other Chinese tech moguls who are hiding from public view
Didi's Jean Liu and her father, Lenovo head Liu Chuanzhi, are the latest tech leaders to pull back …
Weilun Soon
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China blocked candle and cake emojis from Weibo in order to censor anniversary commemorations of the Tiananmen Square massacre
Posts containing the emojis showed up blank on the Chinese social media platform Weibo, the country…
Cheryl Teh
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Peng Shuai had a private dinner with Olympic bosses the night before calling her disappearance an 'enormous misunderstanding'
Peng briefly disappeared in November after posting on social media that she had been sexually assau…
Will Martin
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Why China's Enormous Twitter Rival Blocks Searches Related To 'Hair Bacon'
JN: Indeed, authorities around the world have recognized that information control is hard, and it h…
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China wants its nepo-baby and get-rich-quick influencers gone
China's biggest platforms announced a synchronized crackdown on "bad behavior" involving flaunting …
Matthew Loh
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A Chinese firm's answer to SpaceX's Falcon 9 blew up in a giant fireball after it accidentally launched during a test
Tianbing Aerospace Technology said it was testing its rocket engine when the Tianlong-3 left the la…
Matthew Loh
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China is getting hyped over a suggestion that people get more than 5 days of paid time off
A member of the National People's Congress went viral after proposing that young workers get an ext…
Matthew Loh
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China's richest man is under fire over conspiracy theories that say he's secretly promoting Japan
Zhong Shanshan, the owner of bottled water company Nongfu Spring, is accused of subtly planting Jap…
Matthew Loh
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Chinese millennials are freaking out about the 'Curse of 35' when they get too old for entry-level jobs but are too young and broke to retire
Companies in China now prefer to hire workers under 35, a career-death sentence for most millennial…
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan
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China's iPhone ban has office workers worried their own bosses will start getting ideas and banning all Apple devices too for no good reason
Employees are fretting that their bosses will demand they get a second phone, amid speculation that…
Matthew Loh
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6 Chinese people demanded that a British pianist remove their faces from his public live stream. The ensuing fight has gone viral.
The group, saying they work for Chinese TV, told Brendan Kavanagh they'd pursue "legal action" if h…
Matthew Loh
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A Chinese climber saved from Mount Everest has been caught in a social-media firestorm after being accused of refusing to pay a promised $10,000 fee to the Sherpas who rescued her
Liu was castigated by the Chinese internet when the news broke, but the company employing the Sherp…
Matthew Loh
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Elon Musk stopped tweeting for over 48 hours — his longest hiatus in a year — and all it took was a visit to China, where Twitter is banned
Elon Musk didn't tweet for almost three days while he met with top government officials in China, a…
Pete Syme
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Republican presidential candidate slams Elon Musk for saying the US and China's interests are 'intertwined like conjoined twins'
According to Chinese officials, Elon Musk said he's opposed to China and the US weakening economic …
Beatrice Nolan
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Apple's next iPhone could feature a 15% boost in battery life
"Battery pack is one of the area of smartphones that hasn't really been innovated on," technology v…
Phil Rosen
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China is going full 'Black Mirror,' showing off a robot dog that's mounted with a machine gun and can be deployed via drone
"War dogs descend from the sky!" read a post from Chinese military company Kestrel, along with a vi…