More than three-quarters (84.5%) of all mobile phone messaging app users in China will use WeChat this year, according to research byeMarketer.eMarketer’s latest forecast of worldwide mobile messaging revealed more than 494 million people in China are expected to use the app at least once per month.The research confirms the dominance of Tencent’s mobile messaging app,WeChat, which reports a global monthly active user base of 938 million users.WeChatis the most popular messaging app in China wi

According to a report byForbeson Friday,The Last Knight’ssecond Friday in Chinese theaters dropped by a staggering 82.2 percent, from $48 millionincluding midnight showings in week 1 to just $8.5 million in week 2.Forbes’Rob Cain describes the plunge as the“most spectacular Friday-to-Friday drop I can recall for a wide release in China.”The closestcomparison he could findwas 2010 low-budget horror flickThe Devil Inside,which dropped 83 percent Friday-to-Friday – but that movie still ended u

U.S. beef has made its way back to grocery stores and menus in the most populated country in the world, China. On June 30, a delegation of U.S. trade representatives including Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and Ambassador to China Terry Branstad celebrated the return of U.S. beef in Beijing.“Beef is a big deal in China and I'm convinced that when the Chinese people get a taste of U.S. beef, they're going to want more of it. These products coming into China are safe, wholesome, an

China released a new regulation Friday banning any display of “abnormal sexual behaviors” — including homosexuality — in online video and audio content.The regulation, published by the China Netcasting Services Association (CNSA), lays out strict censorship rules for online content ranging from movies and documentaries to cartoons and educational videos,according to Reuters.Under the new rules, content will be edited or even banned if it promotes “luxurious lifestyles,” shows “violent and

Good luck coins arenot just disrupting flights, but now have claimed the life of a turtle at an aquarium in Hunan province, China.A 20-year-old turtle choked todeathafter it started having breathing problems and stopped eating a week before. After the animal died, a necropsy showed the remains of plastic bags in the stomach and a coin stuck in its throat.According to Zhao Chenggang, the aquarium’s manager, the turtle died at a very young age, as usually the animals live up to 150 to 200 years.

In half a year, Xinda Zhan made 30m yuan ($4.4m) through live streamingChina’s ‘Pearl Bro’, AKA Xinda Zhan, is making millions from live streams of him harvesting pearls.The 25-year-old who runs a pearl shop on China’s online marketplace Taobao presents a daily live stream of his pearls.After harvesting pearls from freshwater mussels, the Zhuji-based entrepreneur broadcasts the opening of the pearls live.‘Pearl Bro’s innovative strategy is making the young entrepreneur millions each year.

A startling find may conceal specimens that could reveal much about evolutionary history of Jurassic era. Palaeontologists in southwest China who unearthed possibly the world’s largest fossil wall of Jurassic-era dinosaurs are hopeful that the discovery can shed new light on the creatures’ evolutionary history, Chinese media reported. The 150-meter-long fossil wall, two meters deep and eight meters high will help fill a void of research on dinosaurs’ evolutionary history.The unearthed fossils

At 7.30am yesterday morning, a “women-only train carriage” initiative begun its official operation in Guangzhou.With train carriages all adorned in pink and red flowers, the initiative is set out to operate only on weekdays from 7.30am to 9.30am, and from 5.00pm to 7.00pm. Public holidays are excluded.Normal operations for these train carriages will resume during the rest of the times for both genders.Currently, the serviceis only extended toonecarriage of a particular train line in the Guangz

An elderly woman delayed a flight for over four hours in China after chucking coins into the plane’s jet engine.The reason: She chucked them in “for good luck.”While boarding a China Southern Airlines flight at Shanghai's Pudong Airport set to leave at 12:40 p.m. on Tuesday, the 80-year-old woman threw nine coins into the turbine as part of a blessing.Airline staff was notified about the incident, which forced already boarded passengers to evacuate the plane.The flight eventually departed

source: dailystar.co.ukA brave lad ate nearly 3lb of insects in just five minutes to win a bug-eating contest.The winning contestant – surnamed Peng – gobbled down no less than 2.7lb of locusts, dragonflies, silkworm pupa and bamboo worms to win a 24-carat gold bullion.However, the valuable prize for coming first place was nothing compared to being hailed as the Bug-Eating King.Peng was perhaps at an unfair advantage as he is from Chongqing, in China – where bugs are considered a delicacy.The