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Beijing's rainfall is the heaviest recorded in 140 years, reaching nearly 30 inches between Saturday and Wednesday. The downpours have triggered landslides and floods. Thousands have been evacuated.

An Australian Senate committee has recommended a ban on the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok from federal government devices be extended to China’s most popular social media platform, WeChat

Owner gives parliamentary inquiry no reason for fall over three years but says China’s government could not conduct surveillance on app

A succession of upheavals have characterised Elon Musk’s leadership of Twitter since he acquired the social media platform in November 2022 – from his U-turns on the acquisition, to firings and rehirings and a significant drop in advertising revenue. But his latest move is the most significant: abandoning the globally…

Musk aims to blend Substack, YouTube, PayPal, Amazon, TikTok, WeChat, and Baidu features in a comprehensive platform.

Your quick fix of today's tech news – including last-minute Samsung Unpacked rumors and Spotify's price rise.

Since his purchase of the social media platform, Musk has alluded to transforming Twitter into an "everything app" called "X," akin to the WeChat app in China.

One morning in February 2021, I was woken by a WeChat call from my brother in China. Mum had died the previous night, he told me. I wasn’t shocked to hear about Mum’s death – she had been very ill for a couple of years.

Tencent’s ubiquitous platform now allows people from overseas with certain international bank cards to access tens of millions of merchants