A Chinese man running a small-scale website on which he sold VPN software has been sentenced to 9 months in prison. Weibo netizens take the man's...
China's tech giants Tencent, Sina Weibo and Baidu are being investigated by China's Office for Cyberspace Administration for "violating internet laws." Chinese netizens respond with cynicism:...
A netizen from Taizhou, Jiangsu, has been arrested for insulting a member of China's civil police on Weibo. The 39-year-old man will be detained for 9...
As making in-app purchases has never been easier, Chinese parents are losing thousands of renminbi to virtual weapons.
Weibo netizens have exposed how Baidu Maps, when looking for a city hospital in Shenzhen, instead provides the address of a private hospital run by the...
In China's super competitive bike-sharing market, newcomer CoolQi offers a special something for its customers in cooperation with Haier. With a dazzling gold color, cool design,...
China's bike-sharing market is now more booming than ever. Although the ubiquitous yellow, orange and blue scan & go bikes are easy, cheap, and convenient, they...
Chinese company M-Bar has thought of a new solution for people who love karaoke but are too shy to sing in front of a crowd. M-Bar's...
After Instagram, Tumblr, Snapchat, and Picasa, popular image-sharing Pinterest is now also blocked in China. Chinese netizens are angry and disappointed, while some are outright devastated.
"When there's enough wind, even a pig can fly" (当风来了, 猪也会飞起来) does not hold true for all online businesses.
China's very first police robot made its debut at Zhengzhou Station this week. The robot, that has a face recognition system, can help the police to...
Will China's internet be further closed off from the rest of the world?
The Chinese New Year travel season, also known as 'chunyun', is in full swing. One of the ways in which people try to make it home...
Weibo Night looks back on Sina Weibo's hottest celebrities and happenings of the last year.
Pear Video (梨视频) is the new kid on the block in the pool of China's many digital news platforms.
The meeting between U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and Alibaba chairman Jack Ma on January 9 in New York has got netizens talking. Could Sino-American relations indeed...
The Central Communist Youth League of China (共青团中央) recently announced its official presence on Chinese video-sharing site Bilibili.
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A recent leak has exposed a raunchy Chinese e-commerce scandal in which women get personal online loans through nude pictures and videos. According to some netizens,...