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Linsanity is sweeping both sides of the Pacific. Knicks step-in star Jeremy Lin has is blazing a trail for Asian American sport.

The Year of the Dragon is shaping up as a huge year for social media adopters and users. Oliver Woods gives us his tips on where the trends are taking us.

  “Desperately seeking Dragon Baby!”, reads the headline on the Weekend Herald. A recent story in the Weekend explored the phenomenon of Chinese going out of their way to have a baby in the Year of Dragon, a year that is seen as auspicious and important for the Chinese.   Hospital beds, midwives and special [...]

The village of Wukan in China has risen in protest and become celebrated by many netizens on the Chinese web. But fears of the protest and criticism spreading has triggered a government clampdown.

A young American has become a popular star on the Chinese Internet – by giving lessons in American slang

Indonesia is a textbook example of how fast growing mobile technology has led to an explosion in social media users. Our man in Jakarta, David Chalken, gives us a firsthand view.

Google+ has been taking heat for its real identity policy but the signs are the social network is backing down. Get ready to chalk this up as a win for online activists everywhere.

Evidence of Asia’s increasing importance in the world can be seen in the rapid uptake of social media, mobile technologies and internet usage. Get ready for the Asian Century.

A 74-year-old Gandhian, who left school at 14, wears a traditional dhoti-kurta and lives in a small isolated village may be an unlikely revolutionary but he’s currently taking India (and the world) by storm. Rachna Bisht-Rawat explains how “brand Anna” has gone from obscurity to cult icon in just 13 days.

There’s a struggle for information going on in China. The government faces a credibility crisis as Chinese netizens go online to find out what’s really going on in China.