Chinese social media Xiaohongxu moves closer to IPO as profits surge in 2024, sources say

Chinese social media Xiaohongxu moves closer to IPO as profits surge in 2024, sources say

Social media platform Xiaohongshu, known as China’s Instagram, has the wind at its back in its pursuit of an initial public offering in Hong Kong, as its commercialisation efforts pay off, according to sources briefed on the matter. The Shanghai-based company, which is influential among young Chinese women with its user-generated lifestyle content, has selected … Read more

A Chinese plus-size fashion retailer, sick of ‘very ugly clothes’, launched her own label

A Chinese plus-size fashion retailer, sick of ‘very ugly clothes’, launched her own label

Surrounded by racks of colourful dresses and blazers in China’s manufacturing hub of Guangzhou, plus-size clothing brand owner and influencer Amanda Yao is on a mission to promote body positivity. She is part of a small but growing number of women in China challenging restrictive beauty standards, including thinness, pale skin and childlike features. A … Read more

Why K-beauty tourists are flocking to Seoul’s make-up studios

Why K-beauty tourists are flocking to Seoul’s make-up studios

By Pyo Kyung-min Seoul has emerged as a global beauty mecca and, with Korean culture booming internationally, tourists are now flocking to the capital for an immersive experience in K-beauty. But rather than just stocking up on products, travellers are visiting Seoul’s make-up studios, eager to learn the secrets behind the flawless glow of Korean … Read more

Why Chinese internet users love APT, hit single by Blackpink’s Rosé and Bruno Mars

Why Chinese internet users love APT, hit single by Blackpink’s Rosé and Bruno Mars

Chinese social media have given Blackpink’s Rosé’s new hit single with Bruno Mars, “APT”, the thumbs up, praising its catchy and uplifting tune. “This song is quite intriguing, it has a bit of the past American pop music style,” one poster commented on Xiaohongshu, China’s equivalent to Instagram. Rosé released her latest solo hit “APT” … Read more

Jackson Wang builds a fashion empire – and more – based on ‘easy, casual and fun’ mantra

Jackson Wang builds a fashion empire – and more – based on ‘easy, casual and fun’ mantra

From selling out stadiums to hawking his fashion line, singer and serial entrepreneur Jackson Wang is building a multimillion-dollar empire and his keen understanding of China’s youth is paying off in his latest summer collection. “Its easy, casual and fun”, said Wang, the founder of Team Wang Design, as he spoke about his most recent … Read more

New collecting craze goes viral in China. It involves mushrooms, with Yunnan the hotspot

New collecting craze goes viral in China. It involves mushrooms, with Yunnan the hotspot

Move over, Pokémon Go. A new collecting craze is taking over Chinese social media, with the most coveted finds not digital critters but… mushrooms. Morels, black tiger palm mushrooms, milk-caps, blackening brittlegill, termite mushrooms and matsutake are just some of the species for which young fungi fans have been foraging across the country, before posting … Read more

Must have experience: impossible catch for pressured Chinese students seeking internships

Must have experience: impossible catch for pressured Chinese students seeking internships

Young Chinese hoping for a top job after graduation meet increasing competition and pitfalls on the way to building an eye-catching resume. Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Pioneer Newz is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to … Read more

China’s Xiaohongshu carves out a niche in an increasingly crowded e-commerce market

China’s Xiaohongshu carves out a niche in an increasingly crowded e-commerce market

Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu, the Instagram-style app where young consumers to share lifestyle tips, is seeking to become a new force in the country’s crowded e-commerce market by grabbing attention and revenue from established players such as Alibaba Group Holding and ByteDance’s short-video app Douyin. Xiaohongshu, the platform also known as Red with 300 … Read more

The Myers-Briggs test is wildly popular in China. Is it a threat to labour rights?

The Myers-Briggs test is wildly popular in China. Is it a threat to labour rights?

For Yu, the screening made sense but she concedes that was, in part, because she matched with the criteria and did not feel the pain of an introvert having to lie to stay in the running for the job. In recent years the MBTI test, or the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, has become popular among young … Read more

Microsoft outage leaves China largely untouched as tech self-sufficiency campaign pays off

Microsoft outage leaves China largely untouched as tech self-sufficiency campaign pays off

The Microsoft Windows outage that affected foreign businesses and luxury hotels in China on Friday left the country’s key infrastructure, from airlines to banks, largely unaffected, according to industry sources and social media posts. As of 6pm local time, there have been no reports in mainland China of infrastructure breakdowns, while many airports in the … Read more