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Electoral commission says they are not monitoring the social media platform as marginal seats with Chinese-Australian populations hang in the balance

The former China strategist at Bocom International Holdings was active again on Twitter, Inc (NYSE:TWTR) with a forecast on the Nasdaq index, just days after he exited the state-owned brokerage following a ban by Chinese social media, Bloomberg reports. Hong Hao posted a chart on Twitter that compared the Nasdaq's bubble in 2000 to its…

For nine years, I lived in a giant apartment complex called the Summit with hundreds of other people in the city of Shanghai. Now my old neighbors are entering week six stuck inside.

Shanghai’s COVID-19 lockdown has fuelled outrage on a scale not seen since 2020 after the virus first began to spread.

Tencent Holding Ltd's (OTC:TCEHY) popular messaging service WeChat will begin revealing users' locations when they post on the platform, Reuters reports. Recently, a popular social media platform, Weibo Corporation (NASDAQ:WB), introduced the same settings permanently after more than a month of testing. The new setting aimed to combat misinformation related to recent "domestic and overseas hot-topic…

Is there any such thing as the so-called “ethnic vote” in a country as multicultural as Australia? Do different cultural groups favour one side of politics over another? For instance, in Victoria’s most marginal seat of Chisholm, will the Hong Kong-born Liberal MP Gladys Liu be advantaged by the Chinese…

As health authorities continue mass testing nearly 22 million people in Beijing to curb a COVID-19 outbreak, the city's residents are stockpiling food and other basic goods.

More than 25 million residents have been shut inside their homes for four weeks while officials battle to contain the city’s worst Omicron surge to date. As fences go up around housing blocks with no end to the lockdown in sight, Ed Tucker reports from China’s Covid frontline

Chinese internet users rallied to outwit government censors on a video documenting weeks of lockdown in Shanghai, flooding social media feeds as frustration continued to escalate over strict COVID zero rules.