When it comes to lai see, you can always expect surprises. Ever dreamed of getting a red packet from President Xi Jinping? A WeChat account, “Communist Party members” (共產黨員), promises to give away red ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-05
... official WeChat account might help: it features a handy one-click channel to report officials up to no good. Launched on Jan. 1, it's just in time for the New Year until Spring Festival season when l ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-04
... eek, when WeChat launched a Hong Kong payment version with enticing offers such as free Airport Express ride or entrance to the Hong Kong Jockey Club racecourse, it did not bother to give away mobile ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-03
CEC International Holdings' (00759.HK) 759 Store chain in Hong Kong will be connected to the WeChat Payment network from Feb. 4, a move that will make the retail outlets more attractive to mainland vi ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-01
WeChat Payment, a mobile payment service provided by Tencent Holdings (00700.HK), will launch operations in Hong Kong before the Chinese New Year, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reported Monday, citin ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-18
... on Weibo, WeChat etc. that contain 'excellent Zhao (精趙)', 'honored Zhao (貴趙)', 'family Zhao', 'Zhao kingdom (趙國)'," it said. Whether the message is authentic or not, "Zhao" seems now to be one of many ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-07
... platform WeChat on Sunday, and soon went viral on social forums in China, Mirror Evening News reported. It is not clear which airline or flight the passengers were taking, but the photos were apparen ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-06
The growing popularity of messaging and social media app WeChat among China's stock market investors is posing a problem to regulators, who now find it harder to monitor trades and spot illegal activi ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-06
... r and the WeChat service from Tencent Holdings Ltd. (00700.HK). WeChat is the most popular messaging app in China. Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc., plans to integrate chatbots -- software programs tha ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-23
... rough the WeChat social platform, whereas Parkson has introduced an online shopping site. The explosion of Chinese e-commerce has caught off guard not just domestic retail leaders but international in ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-16
... Tencent's WeChat Pay are clearly present in the subtext. UnionPay is just the latest big state-run company to feel the heat of private sector competition, which is shaking up China's entire financial ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-15
... or of the WeChat messenging service, and BYD Co., a maker of electric cars, are among so-called new economy companies that have rallied more than 30 percent in 2015. Bulls took solace from data on Sat ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-15
... on Weibo, WeChat and other social platforms on the mainland with Chinese netizens hailing Liu for his rebuke of "good-for-nothing renegades" in Hong Kong. Meanwhile, Beijing mouthpiece Global Times, w ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-14
WeChat Payment, the paying solutions service of Tencent Holdings (00700.HK), has begun to collaborate with Hong Kong retailers as part of overseas expansion efforts. Over 2,000 supermarkets and conven ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-10
... ar QQ and WeChat social networking services (SNS). Between the other two, I would give Alibaba a slightly better chance of survival since Ele.me has a longer history and has also developed a strong re ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-24
... orms like WeChat and QQ. The internet giant has achieved a 165 times return with dividends on the stock market over the last decade. How about the next? Internet technology stocks have become the most ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-13
... y popular WeChat instant messaging service. This latest awkward bid by Tencent looks similar to a privatization bid it made in August for eLong, a former leader in China's online travel space that has ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-03
... ions like WeChat (an Internet messaging system), Leftover Treasure (an Internet money-market fund) and Didi Dache (an online taxi-hailing system) are changing the way Chinese people communicate, inves ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-30
Social networking giant Tencent (00700.HK) has just released a wealth of information about its wildly popular WeChat, including a headline figure that the mobile messaging service now has 570 million ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-27
... Facebook, WeChat and Instagram are free and handy, and thus popular with young entrepreneurs seeking to try their luck with minimum investment. Simply by setting up an account and posting a few photos ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-26
