A long-time K-pop fan who had taught herself Korean since she was a teenager, Liu Yue, who was born in Sichuan, took a seemingly logical step and went to a university in South Korea in 2018.The 22-year-old is still in South Korea and is studying business administration last year .…
More and more regions in China are advising against travel during the New Year holiday for the second consecutive year. A city of nine million people offers spending money to those who stay there as the first Omicron cases are discovered in the world's second largest economy. Capital of central…
Haiva Nurani couldn't quite believe her eyes when she discovered her favorite brand of Indonesian coffee confectionery on an episode of the South Korean television series Vincenzo. The 22-year-old student from Bandung, Indonesia has been a fan of K-drama since high school but said she has never seen her own…
One of China's most famous young pop singers announced on Wednesday that it would end its brand ambassadorship with US chipmaker Intel over the company's boycott of products from Xinjiang on allegations of forced labor in the western autonomous region. Karry Wang Junkai's production studio issued a statement stating that…
The lines at the Halal Guys food truck in the heart of Manhattan are getting longer. The number of international visitors buying tickets to the Statue of Liberty has increased by more than 50%. And a few thousand more people are walking through Times Square. After more than 18 months,…
Fundraising through new Hong Kong stock listings rose more than nine-fold in the first quarter to a record high, putting the city's headquarters in second place behind Nasdaq in the global IPO rankings. The 822 percent increase was largely due to a massive surge in the number of mainland China…
CCTV came under fire in China this week after a reporter asked Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold medalist Gong Lijiao when she would "return to be a woman" amid a series of questions about her femininity. Reporter Lu You said in front of the camera that she thought Gong was a…
A massive exodus of bitcoin mining equipment from China is facing hurdles as millions of machines remain stuck over complex relocation procedures, according to lawyers handling such cases.The country's cryptocurrency mining industry continues to deal with delays in getting their operations up and running again since the government started clamping…
A teenage student has accused a private boarding school of shaming and abusing students, excessive testing and treating students like “test machines”, prompting local authorities to investigate. An official from Taocheng District Education Bureau of Hengshui, Hebei province in northern China, said they are investigating the Taocheng Middle School after…
The conference room was full, with a crowd of more than 1,000 cheering attacks on the press, liberals, and the politically correct. There was Donald Trump Jr., who warned that the Chinese might meddle in the elections, a Tennessee Congressman who voted against confirming the 2020 vote, and the President,…