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encent Holdings’s popular WeChat messaging app will start allowing users to access external links from Friday, days after regulators told the company and its rivals to end a long-standing practice of blocking each other’s links. China’s...

The United States has banned the download of Chinese mobile apps TikTok and WeChat. The two most popular mobile apps in China are being shut down in the country from Sunday. US authorities said on Friday...

TikTok and WeChat will be forbidden from US app stores from Sunday, unless President Donald Trump agrees to a last-minute agreement. The Department of Commerce said it would prevent people in the US from downloading the...

China’s most popular messaging app has been censoring key words about the coronavirus outbreak from as early as 1 January, a report has found. Toronto-based research group Citizen Lab found that WeChat blocked combinations of keywords...

Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Wednesday it has launched an artificial intelligence (AI) game on Tencent Holdings Ltd social media app WeChat, as the company continues to show tentative signs of re-entering China’s consumer market. The...

This week, as part of its activities to expand its digital presence in China, FIFA is opening an official FIFA WeChat account and a microsite in Mandarin, FIFAofficial.cn, as well as launching a special online campaign,...

WeChat’s privacy policy states that it may need to retain and disclose users’ information in response to a request by the government or law enforcement. In a carefully worded riposte, China’s most popular messaging app WeChat...

News Hour: Chinese internet giant Tencent said on Saturday its messaging app WeChat had been blocked in Russia, adding it was in touch with authorities to resolve the issue. WeChat, known as Weixin in China, is...

News Hour: A new UN study reveals that Alipay and WeChat Pay enabled US$2.9 trillion in Chinese digital payments in 2016, representing a 20-fold increase in the past four years. The data shows that digital payments,...

News Hour: Users of WeChat sent around 46 billion electronic red packets – digital versions of traditional envelopes stuffed with cash – via the Chinese mobile social platform over the Lunar New Year period, the official...