Bennelong candidate appears to distance himself from Liberal party with Chinese-language ad Exclusive: WeChat ad narrow-cast to Chinese-Australian community spruiks Scott Yung’s ‘independent thinking’ The Guardian - AU · May 1, 2025
How do candidates skirt Chinese social media bans on political content? They use influencers This election, social media has been a major battleground as candidates try to reach younger voters. As Gen Z and Millennials now make up the dominant voter bloc in Australia, securing their support is more electorally important than ever. The Conversation · May 1, 2025
Why Chinese Australian voters could be key in a close race between teals and Liberals In the seat of Bradfield, in Sydney’s north, one in three voters is of Chinese heritage. Former Liberal turned independent Andy Yin is campaigning hard to win them over The Guardian - AU · Apr 29, 2025
Dramatic rise in fake political content on social media as Canada prepares to vote Report finds over a quarter of Canadians exposed to ‘more sophisticated and more politically polarizing’ fake content The Guardian - US · Apr 18, 2025
Video claiming re-elected Labor would ‘plunder’ middle class made by member of WeChat Liberal campaign group Exclusive: Video saying Albanese government would adopt ‘far-left’ Greens agenda shared by member of group campaigning in marginal Melbourne seat of Aston The Guardian - AU · Apr 17, 2025
This election, disinformation is swirling on Chinese social media. Here’s how it spreads Since 2024, the RECapture research team has been monitoring political disinformation and advertising in Australia. The Conversation · Apr 16, 2025
Chinese celebrities ‘voluntarily’ provided character references in 2019 WeChat videos, Liberal candidate says Exclusive: The party’s Bennelong candidate Scott Yung was described as ‘young Chinese talent’ in the videos that are still live on his page The Guardian - AU · Apr 4, 2025
Signal was a 'risky' choice for sharing classified plans. Which is the most secure messaging app? In light of the controversy around US attack plans being shared on Signal, the security of messaging apps is firmly in the spotlight. Euronews · Mar 31, 2025
Chinese engineer sentenced to death for leaking state secrets Convict travelled to multiple countries over six months to try and sell classified material The Independent UK · Mar 19, 2025
China's Baidu Releases New AI Model To Compete With DeepSeek Chinese internet search giant Baidu released a new artificial intelligence reasoning model Sunday and made its AI chatbot services free to consumers as ferocious competition grips the sector. International Business Times · Mar 16, 2025
Chinese PhD student studying in UK guilty of drugging and raping 10 women Detectives fear Zhenhao Zou, 28, may have targeted more than 50 more women and could be one of the worst sex offenders the UK has seen. The Independent UK · Mar 5, 2025
Canadian foreign interference agency says it detected a 'malicious activity' targeting candidate A Canadian government department that tracks suspected foreign interference says it has detected a “coordinated and malicious activity” targeting federal Liberal Party leadership candidate Chrystia Freeland The Independent UK · Feb 8, 2025
What is DeepSeek? Everything we know about the Chinese AI that has ‘changed everything’ Why is DeepSeek better than ChatGPT? The Independent UK · Jan 28, 2025
What is the story of hongbao, the red envelopes given out at celebrations like Lunar New Year? Red envelopes, known as hongbao in Mandarin, are a cherished cultural tradition in China and many other parts of Asia. The Conversation · Jan 27, 2025
The Conversation · Jan 19, 2025 In China, social media apps are changing how people buy and read books – selling more than physical bookshops do While the Australian book market was down 3% last year, genre fiction – popular on BookTok – was among the rare categories that grew.
TechRadar · Jan 17, 2025 TikTok among six tech firms under fire for sending Europeans' personal data to China Temu, Xiaomi, AliExpress, Shein, WeChat, and TikTok are in breach of EU laws, say experts. Here's what we know so far.
International Business Times · Jan 16, 2025 Chinese Apps Including TikTok Hit By Privacy Complaints In Europe Prominent Austria-based privacy campaign group NOYB (None of Your Business) said it has lodged six complaints against TikTok, AliExpress, SHEIN, Temu, WeChat and Xiaomi -- in its first such action against Chinese companies.
Android Central · Jan 11, 2025 US adds Tencent to its Chinese Military entity list, but what does that mean? Tencent is on the US's watch list but WeChat isn't going anywhere. Yet.
The Conversation · Dec 11, 2024 Why Australian politicians are flocking to ‘Little Red Book’ to engage with Chinese voters Wen Li, a graduate student living in Brisbane, ran for the seat of Mansfield as a Greens candidate in the recent Queensland election. Li promoted his policies on Xiaohongshu, one of the most popular Chinese social media platforms. When he lost, he posted a message on the platform announcing his…
USA Today Sports Media Group · Dec 5, 2024 Hermès and Other Luxury Brands Turn to E-commerce: Taobao Operators Must Embrace Digital Transformation Recently, Lingmao E-commerce observed that the luxury brand Hermès has launched a limited-time store on its WeChat public account to boost sales. This initiative, themed "A Tribute to the Iconic Scarf Team," features products such as watch straps ...
International Business Times · Nov 18, 2024 Tencent Cloud To Take On Big Three With WeChat's Integrated Super App Ecosystem Tencent Cloud CEO Dowson Tong reveals plans to revolutionize cloud computing with WeChat's integrated super app ecosystem, challenging dominant players Amazon, Google, and Microsoft
TechRadar · Nov 11, 2024 8 incredible WeChat emojis I want to see on iPhone and Android's general emoji keyboard immediately Traveling to China has opened my eyes to a whole new world of emojis – and given me some ideas.
TechRadar · Oct 17, 2024 China cyber pros say Intel is installing CPU backdoors on behalf of NSA China says the NSA has been installing backdoors in Intel CPUs for over a decade.
International Business Times · Oct 11, 2024 HashKey Capital H1 Crypto Analysis: AI Integration, TON's Potential To Challenge WeChat Crypto had a significant run in the first half of the year, with AI integration maintain momentum, TON seeing massive growth, and zkEVM and zkVM action building up – which of the first half's top trends will continue to gain traction throughout the rest of the year?
Radio France Internationale · Sep 26, 2024 French Polynesia says Chinese missile landed 'not far' from its economic zone French Polynesia said a Chinese intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launched into the Pacific landed near its exclusive economic zone, as Beijing's first such tests in four decades drew a chorus of protests.