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  • Tencent resumes new user registration for WeChat

    WeChat had 1.24 billion combined monthly active accounts in the first quarter, up 3.3 percent year-over-year and up 1.4 percent from the previous quarter, according to Tencent's earnings report for the first quarter.

  • Luckin Coffee reportedly has achieved overall profitability

    Luckin Coffee's stock is still tradable on the OTC market despite its delisting, up nearly 70 percent so far this year.

  • JD.com gets green light to build cargo airline

    Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com's Jiangsu Jingdong Cargo Airlines has passed the initial review by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) East China Regional Authority, according to a CAAC announcement Tuesday.

  • Honor of Kings upgrades rules, bans users under 12 from topping up

    Tencent has imposed further restrictions on minors' game spending, with its most popular game Honor of Kings releasing new rules on Wednesday that show users under the age of 12 are banned from topping up in the game.

  • Tencent testing NokNok, a Discord-like social app for gamers

    Tencent's Platform and Content Group (PCG) is internally testing a Discord-like social app for gamers called NokNok, or "KK" as it is known internally.

  • Huawei to invest $100 million over next three years to support Asia-Pacific startups

    Huawei plans to recruit 1,000 start-ups and build 100 scale-ups, the company said.

  • Tencent announces new measures to reduce impact of games on minors

    Tencent on Tuesday announced new measures to reduce the impact of games on minors, amid a renewed focus on the topic.

  • Xiaomi overtakes Samsung to become No. 1 in European market share

    Xiaomi became the smartphone brand with the largest market share in Europe for the first time in the second quarter, overtaking Samsung and Apple, according to Strategy Analytics.

  • Official media blames online games as 'spiritual opium', sending Tencent, NetEase shares diving

    The report triggered a plunge in the share prices of Hong Kong-listed companies with gaming businesses. Tencent Holdings and NetEase fell more than 10 percent, and CMGE fell more than 21 percent.

  • CaiNiao partners with Best Inc to improve online shopping experience for Southeast Asian customers

    Alibaba's logistics platform CaiNiao announced on Monday that it has launched a cross-border direct delivery service from China to Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia with logistics company Best Inc.