The arrival of American users on RedNote has brought instant online connection between Americans and Chinese even as academic and other exchanges have dampened.

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 has been thrust into the limelight after more than half a million TikTok users recently joined the platform in protest against a likely imminent ban on the short video app in the United States.

As the threat of a TikTok ban looms, U.S. TikTok users are flocking to the Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu – making it the top downloaded app in the U.S. Some of the “TikTok

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 ...

The TikTok ban is just days away unless the Supreme Court or new legislation stops it. Here's where users are going.

TikTok users are looking for a new platform before the upcoming January 19 deadline Does anybody remember the period of chaos after Elon Musk bought Twitter, rebranded it to X, and ‘bird app refugees’ flooded to other text-based platforms like Bluesky,

TikTok will become impossible to access via an American internet connection. It probably will remain possible to access from an American location, though. The rub is a virtual private network, which sets up an encrypted tunnel for internet browsing and can run it through practically any country.

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

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.

RedNote is attracting users of another Chinese short video app, TikTok, in the US who fear a ban. See our 9-step guide to opening an account.