Social media giant Tencent eyes the silver generation with investment in Tangdou, a social app for dancing senior citizens.

Douyu, often dubbed “China’s Twitch”, is actually quite different to the Amazon-owned game streaming service.

China has ended its long gaming freeze but the move is not all good news with stricter content rules to apply

More than 210 million news stories published on Sina.com, together with 200 billion public posts on Weibo, will be archived under a non-profit project by the national library

To clean up its cyberspace, China’s internet authorities have shut down thousands of apps and millions of social media accounts

Under Chinese President Xi Jinping there has been an ongoing drive to crack down on content deemed unsuitable by the authorities

India is one of several nations across Asia adopting stricter oversight of internet companies, similar to the way China regulates the web.

As the West struggles to come to grips with internet regulation, we look at China’s censorship regime

YouTube’s software mistakenly labelled the plumes of smoke in Paris as footage from 2001, adding incorrect information panel which was later removed

The rapid growth was mainly driven by India where 88.6 million new users downloaded the app during the period

Downdetector.com’s live outage map showed that the issues were mainly in Europe and Asia

Government regulation of social media platforms is uncharted territory in the west, raising fears that it would impede freedom of expression.

In the Tencent title, players can cruise around streets to catch virtual monsters, while rearing and trading cartoon kittens stored on a blockchain.