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If you like using Alipay or WeChat Pay, you’d better get your name in there quickly.

Real-name registration is one thing. But now the Chinese government plans to control what actual usernames web users are allowed to choose.

Chinese internet authorities have embarked on yet another campaign to force netizens to register online accounts using their real names.

China’s government says it’s finally getting serious, and this time there will be no loopholes!

All e-commerce sites operating in China must soon offer hassle-free seven-day product returns to their customers. This new regulation from China’s State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) comes into

China’s State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television (SARFT) yesterday issued a notice that proposes, among other things, anyone who uploads a video to the internet must be registered on

Over the past several weeks in Thailand, there has been no news hotter than the ongoing public protests against a recent proposed bill in Parliament to grant amnesty to former

Verified accounts on Tencent’s chat app WeChat are supposed to be trustworthy. Tencent verifies each application for an “open platform” account itself, and it isn’t supposed to be possible for

China has required real-name registration when users buy phones for years now, but nobody seemed to take the requirements all that seriously. Personally, I set up several phone numbers in

Late last month, Sina Weibo announced that it would be allowing international users to register via Facebook. However, as Weibo largely failed to expand, its market remains China-centric. This means