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Roter Umschlag Geld Problem
Opinion

The red envelope and the money problem

During the New Year, Chinese gift each other red envelopes with money. But within Chinese families, it's not easy to navigate the cliffs of social conventions without any accidents.

By Redaktion Table

Tencent: Wechat und Weixin Teilung
Feature

Weixin and WeChat: making two out of one

WeChat, China's most popular messenger service with over one billion users, will soon be split into a Chinese and an English version. This is the response of parent company Tencent to regulations in the East and West: China dictates that data must not leave the country – and in the US, the threat of bans hangs over Chinese providers. The world is being divided into two data worlds.

By Frank Sieren