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• Teen requires surgery to remove knotted USB cable from penis

  I think it's fair to say that few of us have made decisions we didn't later come to regret. But personally, I can proudly say that inserting a USB cable into my urethra was never one of them. An unnamed (thankfully for him) 13-year-old from China's Heilongjiang province was hospitalized ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Samsung opens world's largest mobile phone factory in India

  Samsung Electronics opened the world’s largest mobile phone manufacturing plant by production capacity in India yesterday, ...

  • Vishwam Sankaran

• WhatsApp begins its difficult battle against fake news in India

  Following numerous lynchings across India, fueled by misinformation spread via WhatsApp, the messaging service is responding ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• India must blame itself, not WhatsApp, for its devastating lynching spree

  At least 29 people across India have lost their lives since last May in lynchings by mobs who believed they were kidnappers, ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Cryptocurrency scams in China and India show regulation is always favorable to banning

  It appears that outright bans aren't exactly helping governments fight cryptocurrency scams. Or, at least, that is what frequent ...

  • Neer Varshney

• Tencent joins the Linux Foundation as a platinum member

  Tencent <3 Linux

  • Matthew Hughes

• Why India's top cryptocurrency exchange is urging users to withdraw funds

  The precarious blockchain regulation situation in India is forcing the country’s leading cryptocurrency exchange desk to ...

  • Neer Varshney

• Japan’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange suspends new registrations amidst regulatory clampdown

  Governments all across the world are tightening the strings on cryptocurrency businesses – and the latest one to get in ...

  • Neer Varshney

• How to launch your product on China’s popular Xiaohongshu fashion platform

  While most of you are using Amazon and eBay, people in China are shopping on sites and apps like Tmall, Taobao, JD, Suning, ...

  • Ashley Dudarenok

• Our paranoia over Huawei and Chinese tech is misplaced

  Recent developments emanating from Beijing have many Westerners concerned; a spate of China-based tech IPOs have even ignited ...

  • Gary Eastwood

• Valve announces Steam China

  Valve today announced it was collaborating with Chinese game company Perfect World to develop a version of its popular platform ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Taiwan is obsessed with claw machines (and so am I)

  Taipei is game-crazy. From pinball machines to toy dispensers, the gray city blocks are sprinkled with the neon glow of mini ...

  • Georgina Ustik