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Getting a fat hongbao, or red envelope, stuffed with crisp new notes is one of the hallmarks of Chinese New Year, which starts today and runs for two weeks. As China’s tech companies build their ...

As he entered Hong Kong Supermarket, Sam Lin scanned text messages from his wife instructing him how many red envelopes to buy. Three dozen, she wrote — and make them large, to fit checks rather than ...

Businesspeople regularly use the social media platform WeChat to promote events but when Sara Jane Ho did it for the first time, she was asked to pay with a WeChat red envelope. "I was promoting a new ...

‘ Red envelopes ’ - or ‘red packets’ - are a long-standing fixture of Chinese New Year celebrations whereby money is gifted, usually from adults to young relatives. And now Alipay, China’s biggest ...