11 articles
Crime
Philippines lawmaker submits bill to make ‘ghosting’ a punishable criminal offense
Filipino lawmaker Arnolfo Teves Jr. proposed that the act of “ghosting” be declared a punishable emotional offense. Teves, the Negros Orien...
Michelle De Pacina
China
Man in China shared his ex-girlfriend’s address online in hopes that she would turn to him for help
A man from China, surnamed Chen, posed as his ex-girlfriend on a dating app and shared her address with strangers in the hopes that she wou...
Woman loses $300,000 worth of bitcoin to person who posed as a Chinese architect on dating app Hinge
Tho Vu, 33, lost about $300,000 worth of bitcoin after being scammed by her Hinge match. The scammer, who went by the name Ze Zhao, earned...
Ryan General
Technology
Grindr removed from China’s app stores amid crackdown on online content
Grindr has allegedly been taken down from Apple and Android app stores in China. The country’s Cyberspace Administration announced on Jan....
Khier Casino
Entertainment
Simu Liu Responds After Discovering Many People Use His Photos to Catfish
Actor Simu Liu is poking fun at some dating app users who use his photos to catfish their potential dates. To all the people using my photos...
Dark Mobile Dating Game in China Teaches Women to Spot Manipulative Pick-Up Artists
Four university students in Guangzhou city, China recently launched a mobile dating game aimed to help women identify a pick up artist. The ...
Bryan Ke
Asia
India’s Dating Apps Have Three Times More Men Than Women
There is a significant gender disparity on India’s online dating platforms that put the men at a massive disadvantage. A recent study condu...
Civil Rights
Grindr President Scott Chen Backtracks After Saying Marriage is ‘between a man and a woman’
Scott Chen, the president of gay dating app Grindr, has backtracked on his recent comments on the issue of gay marriage after generating bac...
China Shuts Down 12 Dating Apps After ‘Women’ Turn Out to Be AI Bots
Chinese authorities shut down multiple dating apps after hundreds of thousands of customers complained that the sexy women they were chattin...
News
Single Pokémon Go Players Can Now Find Love With This Dating App
Pokémon Go lovers unite! Thanks to a new dating service called Pokédates, players can now find love while they’re out finding Pokémon. Pokéd...
Editorial Staff
Popular Dating App Says Hong Kong Singles Are the ‘World’s Most Desperate’ People
Data from the popular dating app Coffee Meets Bagel suggests that singles in Hong Kong are the most desperate to find love. Daters in Hong ...