Bloggers and tourists in Hong Kong have resorted to the use of the Chinese app Xiaohongshu, known in English as Rednote. Kent Wong, a 46-year-old Hong Kong influencer, has amassed over 170,000 followers on Xiaohongshu.

RedNote, known as Xiaohongshu, has become the top downloaded app in the U.S. as TikTok users migrate ahead of a potential ban.

This Hong Kong teen has found her foodie community on Instagram He initially downloaded TikTok as another way to send listeners to his Spotify. He was nervous about using the platform at first ...

TikTok refugees flocked to Chinese platform Xiaohongshu on Monday, where users greeted them with offers of Mandarin lessons and jokes about spying.

As Supreme Court justices ponder the future of TikTok in the United States, a growing number of American social media users have responded by moving to an unlikely alternative: Xiaohongshu, a hugely popular social media app in China.

From Li Ka-shing giving free Disneyland tickets to Hong Kong helpers to RedNote’s US challenges, here are a few highlights from SCMP’s recent reporting.

Hong Kong-based real estate manager ESR Group on Thursday said it was teaming up with U.S.-based data centre provider CloudHQ to jointly develop and operate a $2 billion data centre campus in Japan.

From economic pessimism to cynicism about Marxism and fears over the potential for war, Chinese and American users of RedNote took part this week in rare candid exchanges that tested the limits of censorship on the Chinese social media platform.

Veteran Chinese users, with some sense of bewilderment, welcomed their American counterparts and swapped notes with them on topics like food and youth unemployment.

China's economy expanded at a 5% annual pace in 2024, achieving Beijing’s target of “around 5%” growth helped by strong exports and recent stimulus measures. In quarterly terms, the economy 5.

TikTok is owned by Chinese internet company ByteDance and was tailored for a global audience. TikTok is also not accessible in China, where a sister app, Douyin, serves the domestic market. Lemon8, a lifestyle community app also owned by ByteDance, is currently ranked as the second-most downloaded app on Apple's US store.