Zhu Hengpeng, a prominent economist at a top Chinese think tank, has reportedly been detained and stripped of his roles after allegedly criticizing President Xi Jinping’s economic policies. What ...

Users of instant messaging tools, including WeChat, must in future register with their real names and unlicensed public accounts are banned from publishing or forwarding political news, China's ...

Users of instant messaging tools, including WeChat, must in future register with their real names and unlicensed public accounts are banned from publishing or forwarding political news, China's ...

Chinese social media platform WeChat has told a parliamentary inquiry into foreign influence through social media that it plans to appoint a senior legal representative to work with Australian ...

Tencent's WeChat mobile chat app is quickly becoming much more than just a chat app, and one of its most attractive features to companies, celebrities, and government organizations may be its Open ...

The WeChat branding will come in v4.0 of the app which is due in the coming weeks. Already, Tencent has snagged the wechat.me URL but has not yet made the name changes evident on the site. The ...

WeChat is pushing further in its efforts to regulate third-party services on the platform. The social media giant announced that it has removed the misleading names of 3,312 official accounts and mini ...

Users of instant messaging tools, including WeChat, must now register for the services with their real names in the latest bid by China's cyber watchdog to clean up the online environment and rein ...

The Chinese economist who criticized Xi Jinping on WeChat has disappeared, and his name has been removed from a prestigious Beijing university think tank.