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Lebanon convicts influencer of smuggling drugs in biscuits

Lebanese food influencer Georges Dib, known as Dr Food, has been sentenced in absentia to life with hard labour.

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Supreme Court rejects plea to curb reels, podcasts; warns against politicising Article 32

The Supreme Court Bench was hearing a petition against the online circulation of allegedly derogatory comments posted by an influencer against Prophet Muhammed

Chinese man awarded US$73,500 for video featuring Tibetโ€™s beauty, garnering 21 million likes

The tourism authority of Tibet has announced a 500,000-yuan (US$73,500) award for an online influencer whose viral road trip video promoted local tourism and garnered millions of likes The blogger, who goes by the handle @Liyaode, released the video on July 4 showing he had hailed a taxi to go from Chongqing, in southwestern China, where he lives, to Lhasa, capital of the Tibetan autonomous region, a distance of 2,200km. It received 15 million likes within a day, the Jiupai News reported. The...

China influencerโ€™s act of kindness ends in tragedy as farmer dies in car crash after shared lunch

The Chinese social media was shaken by a Good Samaritan deed that ended in tragedy when an elderly farmer died in a car crash shortly after receiving kind help from an influencer. The influencer, who has dedicated himself to helping farmers in central Chinaโ€™s Henan province and has 84,000 followers, posted a video of himself assisting an 81-year-old farmer on June 25. The influencer, surnamed Zhang, bought all the vegetables the elderly man was selling. The farmer, surnamed Jing, gave Zhang a...