Tencent-backed Vipkid is the latest edtech firm to comply with strict new rules that ban Chinese students from working with overseas-based tutors.

VIPKid is an online classroom where more than 500,000 mostly Chinese students learn English from 65,000 mostly American teachers. In 2015, the Beijing-based startup served just over 3,000 students.

Beijing-based VIPKid is giving American teachers an income boost from halfway around the world. Under cofounder and CEO Cindy Mi, the online learning company contracts with more than 30,000 North ...

Tencent Holdings-backed (0700.HK) Chinese education firm VIPKid said on Saturday it would stop selling classes taught by foreign-based tutors to students in China with immediate effect to comply ...