China’s Communist Party has warned cadres against accepting digital “red packets” as cash gifts for the Lunar New Year, raising bribery concerns amid a renewed pledge to fight corruption.

Red packets are not just given out during Lunar New Year but also on other special occasions such as weddings and birthdays. As early as China's Han dynasty (206BC-AD220), red packets were used to ...

If you know the head of the hospital ... Nearly a decade ago, China banned doctors from accepting red packets containing cash as part of widespread healthcare reforms, and in April 2022, the ...

Even as bigger clients are reducing red packet orders by about 5 to 10 per cent yearly, Olympia is hiring more designers – including from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Malaysia – to create a wider ...

Lunar New Year, arguably China’s biggest annual holiday ... of WeChat’s decade-old digitalisation of lai see – the red packets containing money that are traditionally handed out during ...