Refugees

Updated: Feb, 27, 2025 Published: February 27, 2025 Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has announced the 2025 Express Entry categories on February 27, 2025. The department introduced big changes to category-based draws, introducing a new category, and removing another. See your eligibility for category-based draws The new category announced…

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Less than a week left until January 19th, when the order for TikTok to be divested kicks in. After the debate at the U.S. Supreme Court last Friday, things aren’t looking good for TikTok. While no ruling was made then, it seems highly likely that the ban will stay in…

TAIPEI, Taiwan — TikTok users concerned about a possible ban are finding solace in a strange place. Days ahead of a Supreme Court decision that could determine whether the popular short-video app shuts down starting Sunday, a number of users appear to be turning to an app called RedNote — more commonly…

By Eric Cheung, Joyce Jiang and Hassan Tayir, CNN Xiaohongshu, a popular Chinese social media app, is headquartered in Shanghai. Photo: Yuyu Chen/FeatureChina/AP via CNN Newsource As Supreme Court justices ponder the future of TikTok in the United States, a growing number of American social media users have responded by…

The screenshot of Xiaohongshu's official website On the evening of January 13, Chinese lifestyle sharing platform Xiaohongshu (also referred as RedNote) unexpectedly climbed to the top of the US Apple App Store’s free chart. This surge was driven by a sudden influx of American users—many of whom are self-identified as…

Imagine waking up and finding your favorite Chinese lifestyle app suddenly buzzing with English posts, cultural memes, and confused comments like 'What’s going on here?'  That’s exactly what happened on Xiaohongshu (Little Red Book or RedNote), China’s popular lifestyle platform, as a wave of American users, nicknamed 'TikTok Refugees,' poured…

AFP 14 Jan, 2025 01:31 AM 2 mins to read Photo / Getty Images With TikTok facing an imminent shutdown in the US, American content creators have taken flight – to another Chinese social media app. Xiaohongshu, known as Red Note in English, surged to the top of the Apple…

The security situation in Afghanistan has significantly worsened, with alarming consequences for both the country and its neighboring states. The December 11 suicide bombing at the Taliban’s Ministry of Refugees in Kabul, which killed Minister Khalil Haqqani and two others, stands as a grim reminder of the escalating violence. This…

ANKARA — Turkish authorities have eased the country's ban on Syrians returning after visiting their homeland. While the UN and other observers welcomed the move, they also cautioned against raising expectations of mass returns. Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced on Thursday that one adult family member from each Syrian family…