A popular annual Hong Kong shopping festival being held next month will introduce a special zone featuring specialties from 10 mainland Chinese provinces and cities, with organisers also aiming to lure more tourists from across the border. The fifth edition of the Hong Kong Brands and Products Shopping Festival, which will be held from August…
Amy Zhang is dressed in full sportswear, with sunglasses and a lightweight hiking backpack. She is one of many visiting Hong Kong’s Dragon’s Back following the social media craze in mainland China over “in-depth travels” in the city. “The beautiful merging horizon and skyline make good photos for my friend circle on WeChat and RedNote,”…
WeChat Pay Hong Kong has recorded a fourfold increase in mainland Chinese tourist payments for taxi services in the city from last year and growing usage among locals and visitors alike, according to parent company Tencent. Vice-president of Tencent Financial Technology Daniel Hong Danyi said on Thursday that the number of transactions from mainland tourists…
WeChat Pay Hong Kong has recorded a fourfold increase in mainland Chinese tourist payments for taxi services in the city from last year and growing usage among locals and visitors alike, according to parent company Tencent. Vice-president of Tencent Financial Technology Daniel Hong Danyi said on Thursday that the number of transactions from mainland tourists…
Early figures from China’s two dominant mobile payment services, Alipay and WeChat Pay, showed strong inbound travel spending during the country’s five-day Labour Day holiday. Alipay, a unit under Ant Group, said in a statement on Monday that both the number of transactions and total spending by inbound travellers across 13 e-wallets in its network…
Nearly 100 Hongkongers have been scammed out of HK$90 million (US$11.6 million) in just one week by online fraudsters posing as investment experts to lure victims into betting on cryptocurrency and stocks by offering fake insider knowledge and tips. One 84-year-old businessman suffered the largest single loss when he was deceived into investing in cryptocurrency,…
Tencent Holdings said it is testing the integration of DeepSeek’s service on Weixin, as the operator of China’s most popular super app looks to artificial intelligence (AI) to power its suite of services from social networking to e-payments and ride-hailing. In the current beta test, users can click an “AI Search” option on the search…
China’s Communist Party has warned cadres against accepting digital “red packets” as cash gifts for the Lunar New Year, raising bribery concerns amid a renewed pledge to fight corruption. Accepting or giving virtual presents that might affect the fair performance of official duties could be seen as violating “red lines” in party discipline, the Central…
In an internal meeting in October 2023, Elon Musk announced to the team at X that a big change is ahead. He said that Twitter, now X, was heading towards being an “everything app. An all-inclusive feature set that you can basically do anything you want on our system.” What Musk was describing is often…
China’s top intelligence agency has warned that open-source information poses threats to national security by making sensitive data vulnerable to exploitation by foreign spies. Sensitive data that is not properly declassified or assessed for risks can be publicly spread online and “become an important source of open-source intelligence” for overseas spy agencies, the Ministry of…