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
Alibaba Group Holding said it is seeing “encouraging” user engagement and merchant growth during the 618 midyear online shopping festival, as rival Xiaohongshu, China’s answer to Instagram, said its online sales have tripled from a year ago. Taobao and Tmall Group, Alibaba’s domestic e-commerce unit, has switched to a new strategy that focuses on consumers … Read more
In the video, the influencer reveals exactly how to access both bars – spoilers, if you will, or like cheat codes that unlock hidden or hard-to-access levels in a video game. A “secret” bar in Tokyo where reservations can only be made via a special page requiring a code to crack. Photo: Charmaine Mok “Stop. … Read more
Alibaba Group Holding and other e-commerce operators have released encouraging early sales data from their midyear 618 promotions – China’s biggest shopping season after Singles’ Day, and a bellwether of consumer sentiment in the world’s second-largest economy. Four hours after Alibaba’s Taobao and Tmall shopping platforms launched their sales event at 8pm on Monday, 59 … Read more
An article published by the Beijing Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party’s Beijing Municipal Committee, said the measure against TikTok is tantamount to a “robbery” that would “completely destroy American national credibility, which is already flawed”. United States President Joe Biden speaks after signing into law the foreign aid bill and a … Read more
BREAKING GROUND: Under pressure to sustain healthy growth for the second quarter of 2024, Louis Vuitton on Friday went the extra mile in China with an experimental resee livestreaming on Xiaohongshu, bringing the platform’s fashion-loving audience up close with the latest items from the brand’s pre-fall 2024 collection shown a day earlier in Shanghai, which … Read more
Alibaba Group Holding is partnering with US-sanctioned Huawei Technologies to develop native versions of the e-commerce giant’s apps for the smartphone maker’s operating system HarmonyOS, which is meant to take on Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS in mainland China. Eleven applications under Alibaba Group – including second-hand trading platform Xianyu, online travel platform Fliggy, courier … Read more
It gave preferential treatment for a foreign production that portrayed Hong Kong in a not-so-flattering light. Whatever point Wang meant to make by including images of the protests doesn’t matter, though. Any mention of black-clad protesters and yellow umbrellas would usually elicit a rash response from the government and its supporters, but the reaction to … Read more
Taiwanese consumers like Hsu often buy gear from mainland China when prices are low and device efficacy is sufficient to satisfy their needs, a quality widely described as cost-performance value, or just “CP value”. If not, politics may intrude. “Even though there are some geopolitical tensions, consumers in Taiwan still buy made-in-China products as long … Read more
