Helping hand: A couple sitting and looking at Victoria Harbour in the Central district of Hong Kong. Chaperoned dating apps are on the rise in conservative Asian cultures. Photo: AFP
HONG KONG: Move over Tinder – a crop of dating apps in smartphone-addicted Asia is offering to recruit friends for group dates or send along a chaperone to steer the course of romance.
While dating apps developed in the West encourage one-on-one, often no-strings-attached meetings, many in Asia are as much about old-school courtship or friendship in a region where meeting a stranger in a bar can still be a taboo.
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