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...

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...

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....

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...